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« Article on Parker | Main | Md "assault weapon" bill dies in committee »

Speaking of war tropies...

Posted by David Hardy · 15 March 2007 11:15 AM

Just read a story about how Russians discovered a Soviet T-34 and extracted it from the bottom of a lake. It had been captured by the Nazis, explaining why a Soviet model had Nazi markings. Story and photos here.

6 Comments | Leave a comment

Poshboy | March 15, 2007 12:10 PM | Reply

If you like that, than you will waste an entire afternoon browsing around this European war relic site. Like I have done too many times.

They have a number of pages about German and Soviet WW2 tanks and vehicles retrieved from bogs.

This page describes the rescue of three German tanks from a Baltic Sea wreck.

http://www.lerenfort.fsnet.co.uk/page77.html

Enjoy!

Marcus Poulin | March 15, 2007 2:09 PM | Reply

The T-34 was a wonderful sea change in armor
design and it caught the Wehrmacht by surprise.

It makes you wonder if the U.S.S.R. actually had
foreknowledge that the Germans had nasty intentions for them. :)


And that The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was just
a delaying tactic for the U.S.S.R. needed some years to prepare for the greatest military
clash in history.


Best,

Marc

Rudy DiGiacinto | March 15, 2007 8:15 PM | Reply

Here is a link to a Former Russian Saper who has been using a metal detector to find WWII Relics. They had to remove some pictures becuse he was finding helemets with the German skeletons still in them. They also have found tanks and airplanes. I have always wondered how many M-1 Garand clips are laying around Europe.

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,27618.0.html

steveH | March 15, 2007 10:42 PM | Reply

The Soviets had been working hard on tank design and doctrine since at least the early 1930s.

Their designs from that time, and at least up to the T-34 took advantage of an American tank designer's work, especially on suspension system. They bought a Christie M-1930, and based their fast tank designs on it and later Christie work. (The U.S., on the other hand, didn't give him much business until quite a bit later.)

Oh, at the time, they were trying to stay ahead of Poland, who they expected to be their main opposition at the time.

Things changed.

Jonas Salk | March 16, 2007 2:08 AM | Reply

The article is about Estonians, not Russians. Estonia is not Russia and most Estonians are of Estonian descent, an ethnic group related to the Finns and other Finno-Ugrics. They are not Russian.

Nomen Nescio | March 17, 2007 12:27 PM | Reply

whoah, i can smell the peat bog right through those photos. great find, but it'll take some airing out i'm sure...

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