WW2 relics, Battle of the Bulge. Found some amazing stuff!
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[QUOTE=Craig Willmore;32127971]You do realize that the US alone has 2,000,000+ living veterans of WWII?[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=krakadict;32126217]it's sad to know the who ever was using them items in WW2 are [B]properly[/B] long dead[/QUOTE]
don't clean them op best to just leave how you found them
thats pretty cool man, keep doing it and maybe you might find something big like a rifle or something
[QUOTE=slippp22;32128934]thats pretty cool man, keep doing it and maybe you might find something big like a rifle or something[/QUOTE]
Or a helmet! Would be awesome.
[QUOTE=kirederf7;32128279]Not restoring them, cleaning them up.
Removing dirt and loose rust with soft brush can't damage the items.
That's all I'm going to do.
[img]http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/596/dsc0010eh.jpg[/img]
I now know what these things are:
[img]http://www.usarmymodels.com/ARTICLES/105mm%20Ordnance/Ammo/75mm%20bundle.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
Measure the diameter and you can roughly say to who it belonged to.
God dammit I want a metal detector
cool stuff.
This is awesome. I'd really love to do this sometime.
Have you ever found any kind of undetonated explosives?
[QUOTE=TehMentos;32129365]This is awesome. I'd really love to do this sometime.
Have you ever found any kind of undetonated explosives?[/QUOTE]
I found a US mortar once, didn't touch it and called the bomb squad.
That's the only explosive I've ever found.
[QUOTE=kirederf7;32126821]I'm just going to clean them up a little, remove the dirt and some of the rust, that's it..[/QUOTE]
Don't touch them, at all, you risk damaging them more.
don't you ever watch pawn stars
"cleaning" up an item always damages its overall value, leave it to an expert to do it themselves
[QUOTE=Lord of Ears;32130095]don't you ever watch pawn stars
"cleaning" up an item always damages its overall value, leave it to an expert to do it themselves[/QUOTE]
these things wont be worth anything anyway its just scrap metal really but still pretty cool to the average nutter and his metal detector.
[QUOTE=krakadict;32128627]don't clean them op best to just leave how you found them[/QUOTE]
No wonder he got confused, it's spelled [B]probably[/B], not [url=http://www.thefreedictionary.com/properly]properly[/url].
[QUOTE=Bang2Rights;32130369]these things wont be worth anything anyway its just scrap metal really but still pretty cool to the average nutter and his metal detector.[/QUOTE]
they could be worth a lot actually
Get that shit to a museum and get profit
[QUOTE=Sniping Robot;32126249]Damn I wish there was something like that to do in Australia[/QUOTE]
Search for relics from this...
[img]http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e338/wanvadder/1246290631504.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=FinalHunter;32131553]I don't think he found one of those
[editline]5th September 2011[/editline]
Tell the full story![/QUOTE]
Nothing much to tell, what do you want to know?
My neighbour found a blank artillery shell in his back garden and gave it to us
We used it as a plant pot, don't know where it went though
Great find OP
[QUOTE=Lord of Ears;32130625]they could be worth a lot actually[/QUOTE]
Do you not think if there was any items of value someone would of been long ago and dug that shit up?
[QUOTE=Bang2Rights;32135356]Do you not think if there was any items of value someone would of been long ago and dug that shit up?[/QUOTE]
No one wants the effort.
[img]http://www.indy4.info/images/about-indiana-jones-1.jpg[/img]
[B][I][h2]it belongs in a museum![/h2][/I][/B]
[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;32131940]Get that shit to a museum and get profit[/QUOTE]
Pretty sure museums dont buy stuff.
And op, you really shouldn't try restoring them on your own, you'd be potentially ruining the value and history behind it by trying to make it look new. I would donate what you find to museums.
[QUOTE=Bang2Rights;32135356]Do you not think if there was any items of value someone would of been long ago and dug that shit up?[/QUOTE]
how would they know it was there
Next time, you guys need to bring a metal detector (or a better one if you did).
And a mine dog :v:
If you're in the Normandy region you can take a metal detector along any of the farm areas there.
Dick Winters (Winters dude from Band of Brothers) and another Easy Company friend were visiting the Bocage area in France many years later. One of the farm fields were recently found and Winters could perfectly recall that he had a machinegun set right where he was standing. His wife picked up a .30 caliber shell from that area.
[QUOTE=Sniping Robot;32126249]Damn I wish there was something like that to do in Australia[/QUOTE]
I think you should be happy that you can't do that here.
[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;32139297]If you're in the Normandy region you can take a metal detector along any of the farm areas there.
Dick Winters (Winters dude from Band of Brothers) and another Easy Company friend were visiting the Bocage area in France many years later. One of the farm fields were recently found and Winters could perfectly recall that he had a machinegun set right where he was standing. His wife picked up a .30 caliber shell from that area.[/QUOTE]
Well I'm going to normandy soon, not sure where in normandy though.
[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;32139297]If you're in the Normandy region you can take a metal detector along any of the farm areas there.
Dick Winters (Winters dude from Band of Brothers) and another Easy Company friend were visiting the Bocage area in France many years later. One of the farm fields were recently found and Winters could perfectly recall that he had a machinegun set right where he was standing. His wife picked up a .30 caliber shell from that area.[/QUOTE]
Shame he died earlier this year
Dammit why's there no cool shit near me?
Well except my old school was an airfield in ww2, but that's about it.
[QUOTE=ksenior;32144004]Shame he died earlier this year[/QUOTE]
Right after new years if I remember correctly.
My grandfather was in the U.S. Army during WW2 and I have a knife that he took off a dead German soldier. It reads "TIGER SOLINGEN" on the blade. I also have the sheath. It's a really badass knife. I should post pictures.
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