• WW2 relics, Battle of the Bulge. Found some amazing stuff!
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[QUOTE=MedicmanV500;32145266]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.[/QUOTE] Tiger Solingen was a famous producer of edged weapons during ww2, I would like to see it.
[QUOTE=kirederf7;32145962]Tiger Solingen was a famous producer of edged weapons during ww2, I would like to see it.[/QUOTE] [url]http://filesmelt.com/dl/german_knife.JPG[/url]
[QUOTE=Mattyyyy;32144011]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] I live a couple hundred miles from where they used to do above-ground nuclear detonations, is that cool? :v:
[QUOTE=kirederf7;32143964]Well I'm going to normandy soon, not sure where in normandy though.[/QUOTE] [quote][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Caumont_Gap.svg/638px-Caumont_Gap.svg.png[/img][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Operation_Perch.svg/800px-Operation_Perch.svg.png[/img][/quote]
Anyone know any history or details on the knife? Like which German units used it/what years and stuff like that?
How do you know you're not going to dig into a grenade/mine/other explosive?
[QUOTE=Mon;32135676] [B][I][h2]it belongs in a museum![/h2][/I][/B][/QUOTE] "Hi! Yeah so I found these rusty WW2 knifes and thought that maybe yo- hello?"
[QUOTE=Logic Studio;32153537]"Hi! Yeah so I found these rusty WW2 knifes and thought that maybe yo- hello?"[/QUOTE] I don't know what you're talking about. I'm sure any historical museum would be interested.
Finding a mortar does sound pretty awesome. Did you find out what happened afterwards? And oh the things I would do to get my hands on the knife linked earlier in the thread. That is so damn sexy. I would love having such a piece of history in my hands, just think how 70 years ago some german soldier sat with the exact same knife. Amazing.
You Euro's get to dig up all the cool shit, all our cool shit has been picked clean :(
[QUOTE=l33tkill;32153704]I don't know what you're talking about. I'm sure any historical museum would be interested.[/QUOTE] Maybe, maybe not
I'm not actually sure how much stuff would be accepted by a museum. My grandpa was in WWII as a mechanic and worked on B-29s and stuff. He gave me a shoebox full of things he collected from crash sites like parts of engines, some M1 rounds in their stripper clip, bits of burnt parachute and some other stuff. It's really cool but I dont know if I have time to take pics or anything. Oh yeah, as he was leaving after the war some of the other guys he worked with asked if he wanted to keep the B 29 blueprints since they didnt need them anymore, and he still has that in his cabinet. I got to look at it, its really cool.
My father went to Tarawa in the pacific I few years back, there was so much in terms of relics left on the beaches there. He came back with various ammunition shells, parts of a B-24, Grenade casings and more. I was surprised when he got it all back through customs really.
[QUOTE=MedicmanV500;32152358]Anyone know any history or details on the knife? Like which German units used it/what years and stuff like that?[/QUOTE]What are the measurements of it?
[QUOTE=ForestRaptor;32129124]God dammit I want a metal detector[/QUOTE] I have one but North Texas doesn't have too much to dig up. Even the civil war pretty much skipped over us.
[QUOTE=MedicmanV500;32152358]Anyone know any history or details on the knife? Like which German units used it/what years and stuff like that?[/QUOTE] Fire Protection Police (Feuerschutzpolizei) Dress Bayonet by Paul Seilheimer of Solingen. Dress bayonets like this were manufactured in various forms with an assortment of options distinguishing one organization from another. This particular model with the "S" cross guard and long 9 7/8" inch blade was intended for wear by NCO Fire Protection Police personnel ranks of Feuerwehrmann through Brandmeister. The shorter 7 7/8" inch blade was intended for wear by officers with the rank of Oberbrandmeister through Hauptbrandmeister. Those are normally without the sawback, yours could be worth around 500$. [editline]7th September 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Kylel999;32153198]How do you know you're not going to dig into a grenade/mine/other explosive?[/QUOTE] You don't, you just have to dig around the signal and be very careful. [editline]7th September 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=TehMentos;32154493]Finding a mortar does sound pretty awesome. Did you find out what happened afterwards? And oh the things I would do to get my hands on the knife linked earlier in the thread. That is so damn sexy. I would love having such a piece of history in my hands, just think how 70 years ago some german soldier sat with the exact same knife. Amazing.[/QUOTE] Well the bomb squad took the mortar with them and let it explode at an old military airfield.
Awesome find man, this will look great on one's desk. Or a museum, your choice.
[QUOTE=TheIceman;32166880]Awesome find man, this will look great on one's desk. Or a museum, your choice.[/QUOTE] A museum does not want the shit I found, they have much better shit, sadly. I would be very happy if my items would go to a museum.
Nice finds keep it up (: Echt mooi!
[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] My uncle got me a book on him last Christmas, I had no idea he died shortly after in January.
[QUOTE=FletcherTheMoos;33527464]Nice finds keep it up (: Echt mooi![/QUOTE] Kind of a bump, but hey, this thread was pretty awesome
Well I'm just glad that my other thread didn't get bumped... I haven't gone searching for a while now... No time because of school. Digging is the most fun I can have without taking my pants off.
Really cool stuff, I would LOVE to dig up a Luger or something but they're probably all gone by now.
[QUOTE=ShadowSocks8;33528374]Really cool stuff, I would LOVE to dig up a Luger or something but they're probably all gone by now.[/QUOTE] Nope, there still loads of stuff to find, Last week someone found this mp44 and k98 [img]http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/605/img6889r.jpg[/img]
Cool, but not as cool as a scuba friend of mine who found huge bullets underwater, with some millimeters of coral which started sprouting on them.
I will say this, ive done quite some digging and on more than one occasion i have found a lot of live ammunition. On one trip I found a 88mm German warhead with the trigger cap broken open and the detonating shaft inside easily accessible. Me being smart put the shell somewhere i could find it again, and went of searching. When i got back the shell was still there, (I had found another fully intact one on my other trip) So i took the one with the damaged trigger cap and handed it over to the police bomb squad, i got to watch as they detonated it However unless you know how to deactivate an explosive piece of ammunition, Eg. Hand Grenades, any form of Ammunition, or highly explosive devices such as undetonated Bombs, OR worst of all land mines. Do not deal with them, call the police and they will dispose of it for you. I personally know people who have seriously maimed themselves in fucking with this stuff. I know how to neutralize live ammunition because I took some classes from a friend. But please do not mess with this stuff, IT CAN AND WILL kill you. [editline]2nd December 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=ShadowSocks8;33528374]Really cool stuff, I would LOVE to dig up a Luger or something but they're probably all gone by now.[/QUOTE] Honestly Its not that they are all gone, its more like there are almost none dug up, As you know Lugers were very prized by American, Russians, And the British. So very few were likely to be wasted and cast aside, that and its all relative to where you are searching, The MP44 or STG 44 (we) was only used in the years 1944-45 and are pretty rare, But you again have to know where you are looking The battle of the Bulge was in 44' so its likely to find them there. But rarity of something is also relative, i know a while ago some guy found a MKB 42 which was the early beta of the Mp44, there are known to be only 4-5 in existence with only 1 original model working (refurbished). And others are just repros.
Would it be worth diging around the kokoda trail and other areas around? Or would it all be rusted because of the tropic environment?
Wow, that's awesome.
[QUOTE=desertdog11;33544939]Would it be worth diging around the kokoda trail and other areas around? Or would it all be rusted because of the tropic environment?[/QUOTE] personally i would do it, it cant never be too rusted haha you'll still find something, maybe just not combat related because it was a POW trail.
[QUOTE]personally i would do it, it cant never be too rusted haha you'll still find something, maybe just not combat related because it was a POW trail. [/QUOTE] Who knows, maybe alot of equipment sank in the mud and was preserved.
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