[PIC GALLERY] Wrecks and Relics

[Bootie]

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a61/HuxleyTheRed/DSC00152-1.jpg

These are mighty impressive guns eh??

[Bootie]

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a61/HuxleyTheRed/DSC00115.jpg

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a61/HuxleyTheRed/DSC00118.jpg

[Bootie]

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a61/HuxleyTheRed/DSC00147-1.jpg

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a61/HuxleyTheRed/DSC00121-1.jpg

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a61/HuxleyTheRed/DSC00122.jpg

[Bootie]

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a61/HuxleyTheRed/DSC00148.jpg

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a61/HuxleyTheRed/DSC00151.jpg

[Bootie]

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a61/HuxleyTheRed/DSC00150.jpg

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a61/HuxleyTheRed/DSC00149.jpg

[Bootie]

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a61/HuxleyTheRed/DSC00146.jpg

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a61/HuxleyTheRed/DSC00138.jpg

[Bootie]

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a61/HuxleyTheRed/DSC00133.jpg

[Bootie]

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a61/HuxleyTheRed/DSC00125-1.jpg

[Bootie]

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a61/HuxleyTheRed/DSC00126.jpg

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a61/HuxleyTheRed/DSC00127.jpg

[Bootie]

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a61/HuxleyTheRed/DSC00134.jpg

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a61/HuxleyTheRed/DSC00136.jpg

[Bootie]

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a61/HuxleyTheRed/DSC00135.jpg

[Bootie]

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a61/HuxleyTheRed/DSC00143.jpg

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a61/HuxleyTheRed/DSC00132.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

Soviet Wreck Found on the Baltic Sea Floor

A Soviet submarine has been lying on the Baltic Sea floor for almost 70 years, ever since it ran into a Finnish mine in early 1940. Now, a team of divers say they have found the vessel.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Competitons/sov-sub.jpg

[Bootie]

http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq273/greershane/The%20FGM/Untitled-154.jpg


LINK (http://www.stripes.com/articleprint.asp?section=104&article=66113)

[zaraza]

This time i got on time, and i get in...
Here is few images, rest fill follow on galllery on my web site...
This is just preview...few resized images....


http://i990.photobucket.com/albums/af29/cheesy_peas/muzej%20aero%202/DSCF6919.jpg

[zaraza]

http://i990.photobucket.com/albums/af29/cheesy_peas/muzej%20aero%202/DSCF6893.jpg

http://i990.photobucket.com/albums/af29/cheesy_peas/muzej%20aero%202/DSCF6894.jpg

http://i990.photobucket.com/albums/af29/cheesy_peas/muzej%20aero%202/DSCF6900.jpg

[zaraza]

http://i990.photobucket.com/albums/af29/cheesy_peas/muzej%20aero%202/DSCF6913.jpg

http://i990.photobucket.com/albums/af29/cheesy_peas/muzej%20aero%202/DSCF6922.jpg

http://i990.photobucket.com/albums/af29/cheesy_peas/muzej%20aero%202/DSCF6937.jpg

[zaraza]

http://i990.photobucket.com/albums/af29/cheesy_peas/muzej%20aero%202/DSCF6943.jpg

http://i990.photobucket.com/albums/af29/cheesy_peas/muzej%20aero%202/DSCF6952.jpg

http://i990.photobucket.com/albums/af29/cheesy_peas/muzej%20aero%202/DSCF6965.jpg

[zaraza]

http://i990.photobucket.com/albums/af29/cheesy_peas/muzej%20aero%202/DSCF6972.jpg

http://i990.photobucket.com/albums/af29/cheesy_peas/muzej%20aero%202/DSCF6973.jpg

http://i990.photobucket.com/albums/af29/cheesy_peas/muzej%20aero%202/DSCF6978.jpg

[zaraza]

http://i990.photobucket.com/albums/af29/cheesy_peas/muzej%20aero%202/DSCF7002.jpg

http://i990.photobucket.com/albums/af29/cheesy_peas/muzej%20aero%202/DSCF7037.jpg

http://i990.photobucket.com/albums/af29/cheesy_peas/muzej%20aero%202/DSCF7057.jpg

[zaraza]

http://i990.photobucket.com/albums/af29/cheesy_peas/muzej%20aero%202/DSCF7092.jpg

http://i990.photobucket.com/albums/af29/cheesy_peas/muzej%20aero%202/DSCF7094.jpg

[ACSpectre]

What is the American wreckage?

[zaraza]

What is the American wreckage?

Tail section and canopy is F16, part of wing is F-117

edit:
When i put together main gallery, every image will have short description...this is only for showing off....i just love that musem...

[ACSpectre]

Tail section and canopy is F16, part of wing is F-117

edit:
When i put together main gallery, every image will have short description...this is only for showing off....i just love that musem...

It looks like a great museum.

[Bootie]

In the Pskov region of swamps was found an IL-2 Soviet attack plane. In the cockpit were the remains of the pilot Gregory Fedirko and arrow Ivan Rylov. Be advised the pilots remains are seen in this clip.

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[Bootie]

THE LOSS OF FW190 A5 W.Nr 1227.
On Monday 19th July 1943 Fw190 A-5 W.Nr 1227 'White A' went on a mission carrying a SC250 (550Ib) bomb. Taking off from Siwerskaja, on what was probably a hot summer day, 'White A' headed for the Front line which was only fifteen or so minutes flight time away. Crossing the front line over the Dvina River, the Fw190, flying with another crossed it and headed East. Whilst behind enemy lines, in an area called Voibakala, the 'Rotte' attacked an armoured train and reportedly suffered damage from flak.

The loss report indicates the Fw190 crash landed due to this damage, although none was located on the airframe. It Fw190 suffered a catastrophic failure of the BMW801, caused by a rag -sabotage is suspected as it was a new engine was fitted a few days before. The Fw190 was recorded as being 100% lost in the map reference co-ordinates of Pl.Qu.20124. This grid system based on 1:200,000 maps was used to identify crash sites, possibly for salvage, recovery of missing pilots or as the best way of identifying an area consisting of unpronounceable Russian towns, villages and large areas of forests and lakes. The more numbers the Pl.Qu. reference gives, the smaller the area of the location. A key to this 'code', would help identify literally dozens of possible recoveries within Russia!!

The pilot Feldwebel Paul Rätz survived the crash landed behind enemy lines. He removed his leather flying helmet and retrieved the first air kit from the rear fuselage and is thought to have headed West back to the front line only a dozen or so miles from the crash site. He was undoubtedly captured by the Russians and interned although the Luftwaffe loss report still class him as 'Vermißt' (missing) in action.

Found in silver birch forest 1989. Recovered 1991

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[Bootie]

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[PoorOldSpike]

B-25 salvaged from an Alabama lake
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub2/B-25-salvage.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

Dauntless, Lake Michigan
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/LakeMichig.jpg




Betty from New Guinea jungle
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/betty-wreck.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

Zero, Pagan Island
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/zero-pagenIsl.jpg




Ki-49 Donryu (Dragon)

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/Ki49Wreck.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

Zero

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/zero-swamp.jpg



Jap bomber
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/japBmbrWreck.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

Betty
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/bettywreck.jpg



Zero
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/zero-wreck.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

Zero
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/zeroWreck.jpg




Betty
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/japWreck.jpg

[Louis]

T-38 in Neva river (2005)

http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/5712/t38obr2.jpg

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/3592/t38obr3.jpg

http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/5918/t38obr14.jpg

http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/5398/t3812.jpg

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/2083/t3827.jpg

http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/6555/t3838.jpg

http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/8233/t3819.jpg

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/3307/t3830.jpg

[Louis]

USS Utah, sunk on December 7, 1941.


http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/929/87468296.jpg

http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/1754/67708463.jpg

http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/56/70138327.jpg

http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/6369/69744435.jpg

[mTk]

Does it still lie there? I had no idea! I was at Pearl Harbor earlier this year and there was no mention!

[Louis]

Does it still lie there? I had no idea! I was at Pearl Harbor earlier this year and there was no mention!

Here are the positions of the USS Arizona, USS Missouri and USS Utah .-

http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/3100/44294910.jpg

[Louis]

The B-17 "Black Jack", off the coast of Papua, New Guinea .-
Came in last mission on 10 July 1943, falling into the sea but saved the crew .-
It was discovered in 1986 .-

http://i40.tinypic.com/2ihlbpg.jpg

http://i42.tinypic.com/2vl41si.jpg

http://i40.tinypic.com/29y2n0j.jpg

http://i39.tinypic.com/142r97d.jpg

[Bootie]

Brilliant pictures of the Black Jack!!

[Louis]

Stuart found in Chartres, France, in 2008 .-

http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/3125/stuartp.jpg

[Louis]

Sherman tank in the waters of Saipan.

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/8427/95274605.jpg

http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/6320/71187033.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

Bristol Freighter, Canadian NW Territories, landed on frozen lake in 1956, but the left gear broke through the ice.
She was pulled up on shore and stripped of parts before being abandoned.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/BristFrei-NWterrCan.jpg


http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/wreck1.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

PBY Catalina, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
In 1960, Thomas Kendall, his family, and a photographer from Life magazine set off on a round the world pleasure trip in this Catalina.
On 22nd March they touched down in the Gulf of Aqaba.
The following day they were attacked with automatic gun fire from a headland nearby by local people who had mistaken them for Israeli commandos.
Mr Kendall and his secratary were injured and 4,000 litres of fuel poured onto the sand. After interogation in Jeddah they were all released.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/PBY-wreckJeddah.jpg

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/CMSF/jeddah.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

P-38 Lightning
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/wreck5.jpg



DC-3
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/wreck3.jpg

Same plane as above
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/wreck4.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

PBY Catalina
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/wreck2.jpg




C-47 Dakota, Canada
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/Photos/C-47-wreck-inner.jpg

[Louis]

SS Thistlegorm
On October 6, 1941 was heading towards the Suez Canal on its way but was intercepted by two German bombers in the Red Sea, probably searching for the Queen Mary carrying British troops to North Africa.

http://i40.tinypic.com/6f5sa1.jpg

http://i43.tinypic.com/wrg6x2.jpg

http://i39.tinypic.com/8w9lk7.jpg

http://i44.tinypic.com/j63oup.jpg

http://i40.tinypic.com/1oqgdd.jpg

[Wigam]

Awesome article and pics Louis, look at the tyres on the truck and bike. They could come off and still be used, maybe sea life doesn't like rubber.

[PoorOldSpike]

WIKI- "Armed merchantman SS Thistlegorm set sail on her fourth and final voyage from Glasgow on 2 June 1941 destined for Alexandria, Egypt.
The vessel’s cargo included: Bedford trucks, Universal Carrier armoured vehicles, Norton 16H and BSA motorcycles, Bren guns, cases of ammunition, and 0.303 rifles as well as radio equipment, Wellington boots, aircraft parts, and two locomotives.
These steam locomotives and their associated coal & water tenders were carried as deck cargo and were for the Egyptian Railways. The rest of the cargo was for the Allied forces in Egypt.
Due to German and Italian naval and airforce activity in the Mediterranean the Thistlegorm sailed as part of a convoy via Cape Town, South Africa, where she refuelled, before heading North up the East coast of Africa and into the Red Sea.
Due to a collision in the Suez Canal the convoy could not transit through the canal to reach the port of Alexandria and instead moored at Safe Anchorage, in September 1941 where she remained at anchor until her sinking on 6th October 1941."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Thistlegorm

MORE PICS (including the locomotives)- http://www.aquatours.com/wrecks/thistlegorm.htm

YOUTUBE (divers explore wreck)-
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[Lighthorse]

most interesting Thanks

[Bootie]

Damn... thats what I love about FGM... skip the depressing news on the TV... log onto FGM.... read something that interests me... view a great vid while munching on my toast and sipping coffee. :)

[Rico]

Great posts. Also amazed at look of the vehicle tyres... thought seawater would corrode that rubber much quicker.

[PoorOldSpike]

And maybe the sea life has left the glass in the truck windows alone too, I can't quite tell if they're intact. But if they've gone they might have been blown out by the bomb blasts.

[Wigam]

Just read your link POS, found out that the locomotive was blown clean off the deck. BOOM when the ammo went up.

[Louis]

Bismarck

http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/9940/99883766.jpg

http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/3355/95148929.jpg

[Louis]

Bell P39 found in the bottom of the lake Yavr-Mart in the Russian Arctic Circle .- For some unknown reason the pilot had not left the P39 and his remains were in the cabin. Missing for 60 years, the pilot was buried on October 6, 2004, with full military honors near Litza Valle, Murmansk.

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/6751/29547843.jpg

http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/9711/10269786.jpg

http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/7346/73034868.jpg

[Wigam]

Some good looking pics Louis, I was interested enough to go looking for some more info on it.

Heres the link.

Missing P-39 (http://lend-lease.airforce.ru/english/articles/sheppard/p39/index.htm)

[Louis]

Great, Wig ...
Just need it, a picture of Lieutenant Ivan Ivanovich Baranovsky

http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/2431/37729312.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

WW2 ordnance disposal in the Ardennes

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub1/lux1.jpg


http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub1/lux2.jpg


http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub1/lux3.jpg


http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub1/lux4.jpg

[Bootie]

So much ordnance still buried even today!!

[PoorOldSpike]

Yeah, I can just imagine the farmer thinking:- "Lovely sunny day and i've ploughed half the field already, I should be finished by teatime if I'm lucky"
CLANG!!!
"Oh ****"

[Louis]

In June 2010 three deminers were killed in the German city of Goettingen, by the detonation of a projectile of 500 kilos before he could be disabled.

And do not think it will be the last news of explosions war materiel ...

[Bootie]

HAHA... POS got one pulled out of his back yard a few weeks back.


http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq273/greershane/Capture-11.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

Yah the bomb was about a mile from me under (or in the back yard of) that big disused building in the middle of the pic below with the clock on it when workmen began demolishing it.
Beats me why people in WW2 didn't notice the small hole where the bomb had gone in.
Krap bomb-aiming by the Luftwaffe though, the naval dockyard with its high-value shipping targets was about 3 miles away, and the Sunderland base 2 miles away.
PS- Notice the big Holiday Inn hotel on the right; I bet a lot of guests who've stayed there over the years are now sweating to think they were next door to a UXB..:)

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/ExIS/notte-bomb.gif

BIT MORE- http://www.thefewgoodmen.com/thefgmforum/showthread.php?5851-Unexploded-German-WWII-bomb-found-in-Plymouth-made-safe

[Louis]

HAHA... POS got one pulled out of his back yard a few weeks back.

Heavens, it was true ... I thought it was joke Bootie .-

[Bootie]

HAHA.... yup its true.. happens all the time in the UK to be honest. Some part of the country is pulling WW2 ordnance out of the ground on a daily basis. Same as in Germany I suspect.

[PoorOldSpike]

Simply captioned 'RUSSIAN DIG' (location not specified)

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub2/RussdigA.jpg


http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub2/RussdigB.jpg

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub2/RussdigC.jpg


http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub2/RussdigD.jpg


http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub2/RussdigF.jpg

[Louis]

The image is more than enough .-

[PoorOldSpike]

At Guadeloupe, Caribbean

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/atGuadeloupe.jpg





Whirlwind at paintball range, Herefordshire GB

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/PaintballRngeHerefd.jpg




At San Nicolas, Argentina
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/At-SanNicolasArgent.jpg





Supermarine Swift at garden centre, Herefordshire
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/Swift-GardCent-Herefd.jpg





At Gulf of Finland
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/GulfFinland.jpg

[Wigam]

What a shame about the Whirlwind, it was a great old bird.

[Louis]

I do not remember the place .- The lowered over a year ... :RpS_crying:

http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/3008/w4ai5.jpg

http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/6114/w10ak1.jpg

http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/4530/w8kk1.jpg

http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/2549/w13no7.jpg

http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/6687/w15oe3.jpg

http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/637/w12ne8.jpg

[Wigam]

What a find there. There must be so many soldiers from all sides out there still MIA.

[Louis]

Lake in Norway.

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/7082/0660280.jpg

http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/9319/0659893.jpg

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/5546/0659892.jpg

[Wigam]

Is that a HE 111 ?

[ACSpectre]

Is that a HE 111 ?

It looks like one.

[Wigam]

I'm too lazy to rotate my head to make it the right way, lol.

[Bootie]

HAHAHA.... just grab the monitor and knock it of the desk.

[Louis]

Is that a HE 111 ?

HEINKEL He-111 H2

http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/6884/19421562.gif

[Louis]

F6F-3 Hellcat recovered from the depths of Lake Michigan, more than 60 years after it crashed during a training exercise. The plane had been submerged since Lt. Walter Elcock, the pilot who survived the crash, was practicing landing on the U.S.S. Sable aircraft carrier on Jan. 5, 1945. As he was coming to the deck, Elcock recalled he brought the plane in too low, lost his lift and crashed into the water, according to an interview with the Daily Mail.

http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/2931/44259533.jpghttp://img709.imageshack.us/img709/7888/44764582.jpg

[Bootie]

More excellent pictures... thankyou.

[ACSpectre]

Great pictures, Louis.

[Wigam]

That looks pretty much intact, wonder if the engine could be fixed and made to fly.

[Louis]

Imagine Wig corrosion must have the motor?
I do not think it could fly again ...

[Bootie]

Yeah I wouldnt like to be the test pilot. :yield:

[Wigam]

http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z66/wigam/151-4.jpg

The loss of the Hurricane was discovered in 2001 when a research group of the ‘Federation of Aviarestoration’ found a wartime report whilst going through the Naval archives. The report indicated that a Soviet pilot had undertaken an emergency landing on a small frozen lake to the west of Murmansk. A salvage team had been dispatched at the time but before they could retrieve the Hurricane it went through the ice. It was declared uneconomical to salvage and so was struck off charge.

On 17 August 2003, coincidentally ‘Russian Air Force Day’, the Hurricane was finally located. It had taken a couple of years to search a number of lakes as described in the report, before coming upon the right one. The lake was swept with a magnetometer and a reading was obtained. The team returned in February 2004 with a side scan sonar and the images showed the Hurricane was there, complete and apparently in very good condition.

http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z66/wigam/hurricane_01.jpg

http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z66/wigam/hurricane_03.jpg

http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z66/wigam/hurricane_05.jpg

The Hurricane was complete; with the only visible damage being a hole in the upper cowling and a hole in the port wing leading edge. The Rolls-Royce Merlin XX seemed to be in excellent condition, having been protected within the silt and moss of the lake bottom.

With the wings off and all of the cowlings removed, Z5252 was loaded onto a wooden sledge and pulled back to base camp, four miles away by Snowcat.

A few days later she was loaded onto a lorry and transported back to Moscow where the final decision on what happens to her would be decided.

http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z66/wigam/hurricane_04.jpg

[Louis]

:RpS_thumbup: Wig

[Louis]

The Hurricane, sergeant pilot Boris Aleksandrovich Lazarev (22), shot down by the Luftwaffe near the train station Polyarnyi Krug (Russia) on February 21, 1943 .- Lazarev undid the straps and tried to leave the machine going down, but probably the low level has not allowed it. The Hurricane fell into a swamp and the pilot died of the strong kick from the aircraft control panel. Boris Aleksandrovich Lazarev burried in the cemetery of Chupa, Karelian Republic.

http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/1438/27327594.jpg

http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/8382/72400717.jpg
warrelics.eu

[Bootie]

:RpS_crying: Rather graphic picture. Poor man.... and what happened to his feet? At least his family can give him a proper send of.

[Louis]

Has been preserved quite well .-
Below, equipment found with Lazarev .-

http://img813.imageshack.us/img813/1554/93063942.jpg

http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/8569/52936439.jpg

http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/7879/43548116.jpg

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/8596/61772628.jpg

findagrave.com

[Bootie]

Amazingly well preserved.. even the paper.

[Louis]

Amazingly well preserved.. even the paper.

I heard somewhere that mud preserves better than water, can it be?

[Bootie]

Yes... swamps and such like are the best for preserving degradeable matter. Peat Bogs are the best.

This man was found in a peat bog... he dates to 400BC.

http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq273/greershane/300px-Tollundmannen.jpg

The Tollund Man is the naturally mummified corpse of a man who lived during the 4th century BC, during the time period characterised in Scandinavia as the Pre-Roman Iron Age.<sup id="cite_ref-pbs1_0-0" class="reference"> </sup> He was found in 1950 buried in a peat bog on the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark, which preserved his body. Such a find is known as a bog body.<sup id="cite_ref-bog_1-0" class="reference"> </sup>The head and face were so well-preserved that he was mistaken at the time of discovery for a recent murder victim.<sup id="cite_ref-lib_2-0" class="reference"></sup>

[Louis]

:RpS_scared: Wow, seems asleep ...

[Wigam]

Saw that one too, but it was not one I wanted to put up, but the story goes that when the plane went in the rudder pedal took his feet off. Ouch.

[Wigam]

:RpS_scared: Wow, seems asleep ...

He does seem asleep

[Louis]

Zero on Yap Airport, Micronesia.

http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/9066/84329980.jpg

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/4936/94728779.jpg

[mTk]

There was a "dream machines" show at my local airport in Half Moon Bay, CA a year ago and I wandered over to look at all the custom cars and there were a few aircraft as well.
In particular there was a Mitsubishi A6M Zero on display. Talk about awesome!
It was surprisingly larger than I expected and looked dangerous as hell just sitting there.

[Bootie]

And no pictures mTk!!

[Louis]

The Massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane was perpetrated on July 10, 1944. The whole village was burned and 652 people killed by the Nazis, except 10 who escaped.

After the war, General Charles de Gaulle of France decided that the village would never be rebuilt. Instead, it would remain as a memorial to the cruelty of Nazi occupation. In 1999, French President Jacques Chirac dedicated a visitors' centre, the Centre de la Mémoire, in Oradour-sur-Glane and named the site a Village Martyr.

http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/8168/96392675.jpg

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/1935/46485141.jpg

http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/4011/30827248.jpg

http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/7231/85203603.jpg

http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/6352/83815739.jpg

[Louis]

Remnants of war from Operation Hailstone (massive naval air and surface attack launched on February 17–18, 1944, by the United States Navy against the Japanese naval and air base at Truk in the Caroline Islands).-

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/4184/98851438.jpg

http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/6081/45622627.jpg

http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/4001/42537096.jpg

http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/543/50048757.jpg

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/1336/54322191.jpg

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/7302/55476271.jpg

http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/4262/71751025.jpg

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/4369/63383900.jpg

[PoorOldSpike]

West Wall tank traps
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/ExIS/Siegf-area.jpg




West Wall: panzerschreck rockets
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/ExIS/schneeEifel.jpg




West Wall: panzerfaust tube
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/ExIS/schneeEifel2.jpg





West Wall: more 'fausts
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/ExIS/SchneeEifel3.jpg

[Bootie]

I wouldnt be handling that ordnance... cant be safe!!

[Louis]

He seeks Interpol these boys who have their faces covered?

[Louis]

Please if someone identifies: located in Walenstadt, Switzerland .-

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb453/Bencejas/AAG-1.jpg

[zaraza]

It's M-47 Patton, but what's doing on that place - don't know...

[Rico]

Old tank gunnery target?

[Louis]

Old tank gunnery target?

I really do not know, I found on the web .- The article said: Swiss Army Tank

[Louis]

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb453/Bencejas/AAG-2.jpg

If someone is identified. I found it in Panoramio.
The article says: World War II Truck Wreck
Location: El Wahat - El Dakhla, Desert of southern Egypt.

[PoorOldSpike]

B-25 from S. Carolina lake

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/B-25-Scarolina.jpg

[Louis]

Zero - Guam

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb453/Bencejas/AAC-31.jpg

[Louis]

Beelitz-Heilstätten Sanatorium

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb453/Bencejas/ARG-O.jpg

This immense hospital complex was designed by architect Heino Schmieden and built in 1898 in the Southwest portion of Berlin near the city of Potsdam.

Originally built as a tuberculosis sanatorium this massive complex was converted into a military hospital during World War I by the German Imperial Army.

A young Corporal Adolf Hitler was treated at this hospital in October of 1916 for a leg wound received from British shelling during the Battle of Somme.

In 1945, after the defeat of Nazi Germany, the German nation was divided in two. At this point in history the USSR took control of the facility turning it into a Soviet military hospital. Even after the reunification of Germany on October 3, 1990 the Soviet Army remained in control of the hospital until 1995.

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb453/Bencejas/AAG-3.jpg

Following the Soviet withdrawal, attempts were made to privatize the complex, but they were not entirely successful. Some sections of the hospital remain in operation as a neurological rehabilitation center and as a center for research and care for victims of Parkinsons disease. The remainder of the complex, including the surgery, the psychiatric ward, and a rifle range, was abandoned in 2000.

[PoorOldSpike]

2009- One of 6 Hellcats to be fished out of Lake Michigan over the years

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/hellcat-Lk-Michig2009.jpg

[Louis]

Pelican 16 crash in desert, Sahara Occidental.-
http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb453/Bencejas/AAG-4.jpg

[Louis]

Jordanian M52 105mm Howitzer tank after the Six Day War.
http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb453/Bencejas/AAC-32.jpg

[Louis]

S.S. Maheno
http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb453/Bencejas/AAC-33.jpg
The S.S. Maheno was an Edwardian liner on the Tasman Sea crossing between New Zealand and Australia, and was used as a hospital ship by the New Zealand division of the Royal Navy during World War I.

A landmark on 75 Mile Beach in Fraser Island is the shipwreck of the Maheno. Maheno was originally built in 1905 in Scotland as a luxury passenger ship for trans-Tasman crossings.
During the First World War the ship served as a hospital ship in the Mediterranean, Gallipolli, and the English Channel, before returning to a luxury liner.
In 1935, the ship was declared outdated and on June 25, 1935 the ship was being towed from Melbourne to Japan for scrap metal when it was caught in a strong cyclone.
A few days later, on July 9, 1935 she drifted ashore and was beached on the eastern shores of Fraser Island.
During the Second World War the Maheno served as target bombing practice for the RAAF.

The ship has since become severely rusted.



wiki

[Louis]

Remains of IL-10 in Czech Republic.
http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb453/Bencejas/AAC-34.jpg

[Louis]

The british ship Empire Heritage, sunk on September 8, 1944 by U-482.- (112 dead and 51 survivors)
The ship was carrying tanks, today in the bottom of the sea .-


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdCLOFYaxbQ

[Louis]

WW2 XT Class Submarine Wrecks, Aberlady Bay
http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb453/Bencejas/AAG-5.jpg

[Louis]

This bomber Halifax W1048, TL-S "Sugar" of 35 Squadron, took off at 2030 hrs on the 27th April 1942 from RAF Kinloss on the North East coast of Scotland to take part in an attack on the German Battleship Tirpitz at Fættenfjord, Norway. As a result of AA fire during the mine laying attack W1048 caught fire and crash landed on the frozen surface of Lake Hoklingen, about seven miles inland from Fættenfjord. The crew managed to escape from the crash landing. On the 30th June 1973 W1048 was raised from the depths of Lake Hoklingen and in 1983 was placed on display at the museum.
http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb453/Bencejas/AAC-35.jpg

[Louis]

PBY-5A Catalina abandoned at Ash Shaykh Humayd, near Aqaba, Saudi Arabia.
http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb453/Bencejas/AAC-36.jpg

[Louis]

Bell 205 in Mt Usbourne, Falkland Islands.-
http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb453/Bencejas/AAC-37.jpg

[Louis]

Beech T-34C-1 Turbo Mentor in Falkland Islands
http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb453/Bencejas/AAC-38.jpg

[Louis]

WW2 XT Class Submarine Wrecks, Aberlady Bay (II)
http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb453/Bencejas/AAC-39.jpg

[Louis]

B25 / Papua New Guinea
http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb453/Bencejas/AAE-12.jpg

[Louis]

75mm Type 88 Anti-Aircraft Gun. Peterhafen, Witu islands / Papua New Guinea
http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb453/Bencejas/AAE-13.jpg

[Louis]

Japanese tank on the deck of the San Francisco Maru at about 50m depth in Truk Lagoon.-
http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb453/Bencejas/AAE-14.jpg

[Louis]

Truk Lagoon wreck.-
http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb453/Bencejas/AAE-15.jpg

[Louis]

Officials dump a Chinese-made T-69 armored tank into the Gulf of Thailand, near the southern Narathiwat province August 9, 2010. The 25 decommissioned Thai-army tanks will form artificial corals to improve the marine ecosystems and increase fish stock in the area.
http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb453/Bencejas/AAF-8.jpg

[mTk]

Actually, they were working on a new amphib tank, but the barrel failed to keep it afloat.

[Nort]

badda boom ...

[Bootie]

http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq273/greershane/ShanePics/imagesqtbnANd9GcQ-50d33gb7f10HzwqOL.jpg

"We're gonna need a bigger tank!"

[Louis]

WW2 XT Class Submarine Wrecks, Aberlady Bay (III)
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/716/aaex.jpg

[Louis]

The British Splendour was making its way from Houston, TX to ultimately meet a British bound convoy off of Nova Scotia and deliver 10,000 tons of gasoline. As the tanker approached the Hatteras area, its captain was quite of aware of the potential danger and was plotting his strategy to navigate thru the area unharmed. The Splendour was not without means of protection as it was armed with a 4" gun, a 12 pound gun, a .40 mm Bofors gun and two machine guns. In addition, the tanker was being escorted by two armed trawlers — the HMS St. Zeno (FY-280) and HMS Hertfordshire (FY-176).

The tanker captain decided to run as close to shore as possible following the 8 fathom line. Unfortunately, the U-552, captained by Erich Topp, by was waiting, possibly disguising itself as a blinking buoy. The tanker presented the U-552 with a perfect target setup and a torpedo was soon on its way. It struck the Splendour on the port side near the engine room killing 12 crew members. The explosion started a fire which quickly spread to the gasoline bunkers and soon the ship was ablaze. The captained ordered abandon ship and the 41 survivors took to three lifeboats and one life raft. The ship settled at its stern and continued to burn. Survivors were picked-up by the trawler St. Zeno and were taken to Norfolk. KL Topp and the U-552 continued its rampage torpedoing the Lancing, Atlas, Byron Benson, and Tamaulipas on this patrol.

Wreck:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNom2UDK0KU

[mTk]

Nope. Not the Titanic but the...
http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/tt7/montarakid/lusitania_sinking.jpg (http://s592.photobucket.com/albums/tt7/montarakid/?action=view&current=lusitania_sinking.jpg)

[Louis]

Bristol Blenheim in Malta
http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/3668/aaed.jpg

[GrandSherman]

Damn... thats what I love about FGM... skip the depressing news on the TV... log onto FGM.... read something that interests me... view a great vid while munching on my toast and sipping coffee. :)

Couldn't have said it better!

[Louis]

CH-47 Chinook in Iraq
http://img805.imageshack.us/img805/9294/aaeu.jpg

[Louis]

WW2 XT Class Submarine Wrecks, Aberlady Bay (IV)
http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/9294/aaeu.jpg

[Louis]

Lancia-Ansaldo IZM (WW! armored car )
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/921/aafpe.jpg

[Louis]

Truk Lagoon, wrecks.-
http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/7772/aaeor.jpg

[Louis]

T-34 in Rostock (Germany).- Next to it were found six shells of their main armament and the remains of a member of the crew although the latter point has not yet been proven since it could also be the remains of a German soldier. In addition, they found several hand grenades inside the turret and rifle ammunition.-
http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/1359/aaftx.jpg

[Louis]

San Francisco Maru at about 50m depth in Truk Lagoon
http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/7179/aafs.jpg

[Louis]

Sd.Kfz 6 was recovered from a swamp of Białobrzegu Ratajskim, Poland.-
http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/641/aafx.jpg

[mTk]

Might need a little restoration.
Maybe those guys that built the Tiger could help.

[Louis]

October 5, 2006:Salvage of a Luftwaffe Ju87D-3/Trop Stuka, from a depth of 15 metres, half a mile off the coast of Prassonisi at Rodos (Rhodes) island.-
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/4108/aafbczipc.jpg
Says the article: According to a combination of available historical data, it appears that the aircraft is most probably S7+GM (100375), crewed by Lt. Rolf Metzger & Uffz. Hans Sopnemann - both MIA), which was shot down on 9 October 1943.- On that very day the II/St.G. 3 lost a total of nine Ju 87D-3/Trop when they were intercepted during their mission against Royal Navy and Hellenic Navy ships in the Aegean.

[Louis]

Betty Mitsubishi attack bomber in Truk Lagoon.-
http://img542.imageshack.us/img542/1963/aaf.jpg

[Louis]

SIKORSKY in Weston, UK.-
http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb453/Bencejas/AAC-52.jpg

[Bootie]

The P-47 Thunderbolt, C or D model, is sunk in the waters near the town of Bastia, France. The unit is very close to the coast and only 10 meters deep in crystal clear waters that allow a very clear view of the fighter.

http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq273/greershane/ShanePics/P9200060-u1.jpg

http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq273/greershane/ShanePics/P9200007-u1.jpg

[Louis]

Amtrak in Saipan
http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/8411/aabob.jpg

[Louis]

German Crusier Prinz Eugen, wreck on the Kwajalein Atoll, Central Pacific.
http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/2306/aafv.jpg