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WW2 tank found after 62 years
Posted by BlackSheepTwoOneFour on Wednesday, April 2, 2014 1:11 PM

Last night, I was cleaning out my email folders and came across this link about a World War 2 tank found after 62 years in mud.  Not sure if any of you knew about this.

http://the-thinktanks.blogspot.com/2009/11/second-world-war-tank-found-after-62.html

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Posted by Bish on Wednesday, April 2, 2014 1:49 PM

Hell, a German T-34, nice. Looks in good condition as well. Nice link, thanks.

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Posted by plasticjunkie on Wednesday, April 2, 2014 2:24 PM

Yep, I saw that a while back. One heck of a find!

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Posted by BlackSheepTwoOneFour on Wednesday, April 2, 2014 2:47 PM

Hmmmm... I smell a Captured Group Build. *hint, hint...  :))

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Posted by ajlafleche on Wednesday, April 2, 2014 3:30 PM

What's really amazing, is after that many years in the bog, it looks cleaner than many of the models I see on display here.

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Posted by wing_nut on Wednesday, April 2, 2014 3:47 PM

ajlafleche

What's really amazing, is after that many years in the bog, it looks cleaner than many of the models I see on display here.

Hmmm... what's that sound in the background?  A can of worms being opened?Wink

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Posted by echolmberg on Thursday, April 3, 2014 7:27 AM

That tank looks like it was put in the lake just a couple of weeks ago, not 62 years ago!  That's a pretty neat find.

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Posted by Tojo72 on Thursday, April 3, 2014 7:42 AM

The article says they actually got it started up

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Posted by pyrman64 on Thursday, April 3, 2014 8:15 AM
Tojo72

The article says they actually got it started up

it said all systems, except the engine, were in working order.

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Posted by JOE RIX on Thursday, April 3, 2014 8:23 AM

Wow! That is really cool. Still amazes me that decent relics from the war are still being found. Thanks for sharing the link.

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Posted by Tojo72 on Thursday, April 3, 2014 8:39 AM

pyrman64
Tojo72

The article says they actually got it started up

it said all systems, except the engine, were in working order.

 

The article says "after a few minor repairs,they got the engine started"

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Posted by Geezer on Thursday, April 3, 2014 8:47 AM

Need to find out what anti-oxidant is in that mud! It must have sealed it up pretty tight.

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Posted by USMC6094 on Friday, April 4, 2014 11:24 AM

They found a Sherman sunk in the sand to its turret at Camp Lejeune a few years ago, and another forgotten and rotting in the woods at Quantico

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Posted by BlackSheepTwoOneFour on Friday, April 4, 2014 1:24 PM

IS there a link for that story? I love reading/hearing stories of long lost tanks/aircraft of WW2.

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Posted by BlackSheepTwoOneFour on Saturday, April 5, 2014 12:01 AM

Another WW2 Russian KV-1 tank found unrelated to my first post

www.vincelewis.net/kv1.html

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Posted by BlackSheepTwoOneFour on Saturday, April 5, 2014 12:03 AM

WW2 German Tank found

www.vincelewis.net/stug.html

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Posted by stikpusher on Saturday, April 5, 2014 12:38 AM

I really wonder what is in the water there to keep the steel from rusting?

 

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Posted by GMorrison on Saturday, April 5, 2014 12:50 AM

Hoax primer

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Posted by pyrman64 on Saturday, April 5, 2014 6:55 AM
stikpusher

I really wonder what is in the water there to keep the steel from rusting?

Bish: it's the lack of oxygen in the water.

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Posted by pyrman64 on Saturday, April 5, 2014 6:56 AM
GMorrison

Hoax primer

what?

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Posted by stikpusher on Saturday, April 5, 2014 11:16 AM
pyrman64
stikpusher

I really wonder what is in the water there to keep the steel from rusting?

Bish: it's the lack of oxygen in the water.
Okay, you lost me on that one. Water is H20, 2 hydrogen atoms attached to an oxygen atom to make a water molecule. Remove the oxygen atom and you have sraight hydrogen, it is no longer water. (IIRC isnt liquid hydogen VERY cold- at standard temperatures it is in a gaseous state?) Now I suppose the oygen content can be lowered by life forms in the water using it all up, much as can happen in a fishbowl/fishtank. For steel to oxydize or rust it requires oxygen for the process to occur. Are you saying that the oxygen content of the water is so low that it can not happen, or is extremely delayed in the process?

 

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Posted by pyrman64 on Saturday, April 5, 2014 11:02 PM

Greg H

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Posted by stikpusher on Sunday, April 6, 2014 1:32 AM

And here I thought we only had modeling discussions here ;-) cool science stuff there PM. So I guess that part in Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers with them looking down on bodies in a bog from a battle fought ages before has just a tad of truth...

 

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Posted by CodyJ on Sunday, April 13, 2014 1:26 AM

That'd make a cool Diorama.  Tank still half below ground being pulled out....  

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