tar Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 From the article at BBC News A German tank was found emerging from the water in eastern Croatia. Two military jeeps and personnel carrier were nearby. Military historians believe the vehicles date from a battle for a wartime pontoon bridge in Batina, near the town of Osijek... The battle involved the Soviet army, the Germans and Yugoslav partisans. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sublime Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 Very interesting article... I wonder what condition the German tank/vehicles were in... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 Originally posted by Sublime: Very interesting article... I wonder what condition the German tank/vehicles were in... Most of the German Black Sea fleet did "emerge" in the Danube, too. Those vessels that could not break thru the Iron Gate in '44 were sunk, the crews then marched home. Gruß Joachim 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zitadelle Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 This article reminds me of a couple interesting items that I had heard regarding discoveries of World War II vehicles and AFVs. A couple years ago, the remains of a PzKW VIB was found under a road in France. Don't get your hopes up to see the ubercat, however, apparently there are no plans to dig up the cat and restore it. It is forever buried under the road. More recently, a Russian group calling itself the Phoenix Foundation has been reporting all sorts of "recent finds" of WWII Russian and German vehicles, AFVs, and artifacts. They have even dropped hints that the items will be put up for sale (which is illegal to purchase and export WWII historical items from Russia) However, a good share of the "finds" have been determined as false or a re-write of a previously known find. The Phoenix Foundation claims are really developing hot discussions amongst the AFV modeller groups. Still, there have been more legitimate finds recently. One can only hope that respectable groups acquire some of these finds and can work to restore them (unlike T. Clancy with his M4 parked in front of his house rusting away like at Aberdeen...). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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