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T34 recovered from lake
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Posted: Monday, June 23, 2008 - 02:31 AM UTC
Not sure if this is old news for the forum but here it is.
A T34 was recovered from a lake after more than 60 years. The cool thing is that this tank served with the Russian and German armies. It shows the German markings and it's in a surprising good condition.
http://www.englishrussia.com/?p=299
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Posted: Monday, June 23, 2008 - 02:37 AM UTC
Here's a 'new' one from Russia

http://reibert.info/gallery/v/Archeology/Technics/T-34

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Posted: Monday, June 23, 2008 - 03:22 AM UTC
That's in better nick than my car!
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Posted: Monday, June 23, 2008 - 06:32 AM UTC
Wow, another amazing find in a Russian bog !!
Someone should consider marketing that mud and sell it to health spas !!
Probably due to a lack of oxygen but it's amazing that vehicles can sit submerged for 60+ years and not just rust away to a pile of junk.
You have to wonder what else is buried out there, waiting to be found and retrieved.
Cheers for the sites guys

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Posted: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 01:04 AM UTC
Be careful what you wish for. Yesterday I was searching for VVS uniforms and by accident I found photos of the well-preserved body of the pilot of a Russian Hurricane recovered from a bog after 60+ years.

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Posted: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 01:58 AM UTC

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Be careful what you wish for. Yesterday I was searching for VVS uniforms and by accident I found photos of the well-preserved body of the pilot of a Russian Hurricane recovered from a bog after 60+ years.

David


Wow David,
I did a Google search and found the photos.
They're gruesome but it's amazing at how well bogs preserve bodies .
At least the pilot can be given a proper military funeral, MHRIP, and his family can finally have some closure.
There are probably dozens, hundreds if not thousands of similar cases of missing pilots and soldiers throughout the former Soviet Union.

jjumbo
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Posted: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 06:23 AM UTC

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Quoted Text

Be careful what you wish for. Yesterday I was searching for VVS uniforms and by accident I found photos of the well-preserved body of the pilot of a Russian Hurricane recovered from a bog after 60+ years.

David


Wow David,
I did a Google search and found the photos.
They're gruesome but it's amazing at how well bogs preserve bodies .
At least the pilot can be given a proper military funeral, MHRIP, and his family can finally have some closure.
There are probably dozens, hundreds or thousands of similar cases of pilots and soldiers throughout the former Soviet Union.

jjumbo


What's the link to the photo?
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Posted: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 07:01 AM UTC

Quoted Text

Wow David,
I did a Google search and found the photos.
They're gruesome but it's amazing at how well bogs preserve bodies .
At least the pilot can be given a proper military funeral, MHRIP, and his family can finally have some closure.
There are probably dozens, hundreds or thousands of similar cases of pilots and soldiers throughout the former Soviet Union.

jjumbo



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What's the link to the photo?


Here's the Google page with several link sites:

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&as_q=Soviet+Pilot&as_epq=found&as_oq=hurricane&as_eq=&num=10&lr=&as_filetype=&ft=i&as_sitesearch=&as_qdr=all&as_rights=&as_occt=any&cr=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&safe=images

Cheers

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Posted: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 08:49 AM UTC
JJUMBO-- thanks. Interesting series of articles.
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Posted: Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 01:35 AM UTC
Very interesting, seen the first one a few times but the second T-34 and the pilot are new to me.

It still amazes me just how well bogs preseve things, we often dig up oak trees in bog that are around 10,000 years old at work.

Reminds me of a story that in North England a skull was discovered in a bog, and a local man admitted to killing his wife and throwing her in the bog about 10 years earlier. It was only later that when dating the skull they found it was from the bronze age!

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Posted: Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 02:22 AM UTC
That was Peter Reyn-Bardt who was lucky/unlucky enough to have a garden that backed onto Lindow Moss. Though the C14 date of the skull appeared to rule out it belonging to his missing wife, superimposing a photo of her over it showed a strong resemblence.

David
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