Reading post 624891 in main thread: Spitfires buried in Burma in WW2 recovered
May 5th, 2012  
Yossarian
 
 
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Originally Posted by MontyB
Interesting question here are a couple of video's of armoured recovery..

STuG III pulled from a Bog - YouTube

and

Baltic Sea - German Tank Recovery - YouTube

Got to admire German ballbearing manufacturers of the 1940 as both tanks running gear still turned as soon as they were cleaned up.

It terms of extraction I figure better late than never. lol.

Now the mystery is how they got there. Also I wonder if the same could be done for Japanese vehicles at the bottom of Truk Lagoon?

Although all images there show them heavily encrusted with marine life, these tanks seemed preserved by the fact they were mostly burried by sand and where in a tidal zone in the Black Sea. Not the warm Pacific, but who knows?

Now what I would love to see, is someone ponying up the doe to pull this monster out.




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