before and after, bye bye Stug

thats a shame when they go shooting up those old relics!!!

That's a shame... That Stug was originally in REALLY good shape and could've been restored..

Someone had some fun with target practice

Anybody have any crackers?

That is kind of sad. Coming from New Zealand where there is very little in the way of ww2 tanks let alone German ones i would love to see one in real life. But no, someone has used what should be a museum peice for target practice.

a shame. truely history lost.

joe

What a complete waste...

I weep.

Wow!!! Just think that it has been there for 60 years.Now I would have brought her home.

Unfortunately, we have seen this sort of thing far too often.

Hi,

unfortunately their shooting was far better than their judgement.......

Awful shame.... But unfortunantly that isn't an isolated incident as ya'll have pointed out... A lot of priceless artifacts went that away or were scraped for the Korean war... I have a nice book at home with color photos of tanks after WWII and several of them it says were scrapped in the Korean war effort....ie Luchs! One of like two in existance was cut up... I forget the others...

from site:

QUOTE: The following pictures are taken recently and shows the same StuG after it has been used as a target.

hmm, I'd say someone has cared for it quite a bit

What the heck did they shoot it up with? It looks like a Swiss cheese. At least it is a good reference for advanced weathering and wear.

Truely sad.

that is a total waste of histoy

gdarwin[roy]

ive always wondered what happens to the armored vehicles of WW2 i often wonder if i travel the desert or go through the forests in Europe or Russia if there just sitting there still rusting.

I think Jesse James should have restored that stug for his monster garage series , bet he could have given it a nice paint job too ! Hey BTW is the stug GB still on for august ? I forget who the original posters are but if it is please let the group know . I will host if they bailed or lost interest . Got me a nice little stuggy 3 the other day !

There are samll companies (mostly individuals though) that do just that. THey go out and comb country sides, bogs, swamps, forests, scrap yards, etc. looking for these vehicles and acquiring them for restoration, or parts for current restorations. The tough part is the logistics of the project. How to retreive, transport, ship and make operational again a 30-60 ton vehicle.

Next time you drive around town, look at the weight limits on many small bridges. Most are 6-14 tons.

I had an opportunity to buy an afv once and then ran into those same questions. It was excrutiatingly painful to turn down the deal when it was so close to being in my backyard.

That is a perfect example of what is happening to alot of towns as. The one i grew up in used to have a nice town sqaure. Now they tore down all the shops to build all government buildings. It's a shame to see things like that.

I've heard rumors of T-34's sitting in the Iraqi deserts. Maybe the dry desert air is keeping some preserved.

word

It shouldn't happen to a Stug!

The Egyptian Army found an ex-British army WWII Bedford truck in the desert in the early nineties, apparently it had been abandoned in one of the many retreats across the dessert.

Anyway, a dash of petrol, and a helping shove and it fired up perfectly!!!

Karl

lots of world war two vehicles were repaired and sold off to other countries as well. Take the sherman for example. The french bought a lot of them, refitted them, and then some went on to be bought and used by the Isrealis. Another example is the T-34. Some of those things were stillin use in various thrid world nations up until the early-or-so 80's!

I've even heard that a number of German vehicles were sold as well after world war II, whether captured in good condition or repaired. One example of this is again to be found in Palestine. Have you ever looked at some of the pictures from the late 40's and 50's of the wars there. many times the Isaeli Shermans (M-51's) were facing of against their old nemesises like the panzer IV's!![:0][:0] that period of wars in Palestine is also a good reference for WWII weapons as well. a lot of times, the inf. weapons were used by those nations as well.

hey, there were thousands of tanks and millions of weapons produced druring WWII. They were still only a few years old then, why let them go to waste?

Still, it is quite a waste for that Stug. Who was drunk enough to shoot it up slike that ne way?

its a shame to see such a nice tank go to waste like that.