Author Topic: Anyone have a metal detector? (Read 1202 times)

Guppy35 · « **on:** December 21, 2007, 03:40:15 AM »

It's amazing what turns up at times. Can't read Czech but it's a well preserved Stug III

http://www.detektorweb.cz/index.4me?s=show&i=2988&mm=1&vd=1

thndregg · « **Reply #1 on:** December 21, 2007, 07:28:20 AM »

bobtom · « **Reply #2 on:** December 21, 2007, 07:41:21 AM »

its like they just dug it up out of the ground.....wow

SlapShot · « **Reply #3 on:** December 21, 2007, 08:16:04 AM »

Looks like an awesome little ride. You got any details/specs on this machine ?

panzerr · « **Reply #4 on:** December 21, 2007, 09:08:18 AM »

Here's a free online Czech to English translator page. I tried it, but the result is fairly fractured....

http://www.translation-guide.com/free_online_translators.php?from=Czech&to=English

Viking · « **Reply #5 on:** December 21, 2007, 11:44:01 AM »

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Originally posted by SlapShot
Looks like an awesome little ride. You got any details/specs on this machine ?

It's an assault gun based on the Panzer III chassis. Designed and used as an infantry support vehicle (direct fire artillery), but later in the war it was also used a lot as a tank destroyer. Early versions had a short barreled 75 mm howitzer. This one seems to be a late war example with the same 75 mm gun that the late mark Panzer IV had. The famous tank ace Michael Wittman started his career as an artilleryman in one of those (StuG crews were considered artillerymen, not Panzer men).

Charge · « **Reply #6 on:** December 21, 2007, 11:46:58 AM »

I have read of planes bulldozed in a pit and buried in Germany after the war. I wonder if they are still there to be found or were they dug up and melted into something "useful"...

-C+

hubsonfire · « **Reply #7 on:** December 21, 2007, 12:10:15 PM »

That's a really sinister looking piece of equipment. I'd love to find one in my yard, but I have a feeling any tank I dig up won't be of the self propelled type.

kilz · « **Reply #8 on:** December 21, 2007, 12:21:10 PM »

sweet looking ride

FrodeMk3 · « **Reply #9 on:** December 21, 2007, 12:29:36 PM »

What's suprising is how well preserved it seems to be, after what, 60 years' buried in a bog?

Viking · « **Reply #10 on:** December 21, 2007, 12:30:30 PM »

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Originally posted by hubsonfire
That's a really sinister looking piece of equipment...

Yeah, kinda looks like a Decepticon.

MotorOil1 · « **Reply #11 on:** December 21, 2007, 01:45:35 PM »

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Originally posted by FrodeMk3
What's suprising is how well preserved it seems to be, after what, 60 years' buried in a bog?

It still has paint on it. Incredible, very nice.

Yknurd · « **Reply #12 on:** December 21, 2007, 02:11:10 PM »

Photoshop

Bucky73 · « **Reply #13 on:** December 21, 2007, 02:17:05 PM »

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Originally posted by hubsonfire
That's a really sinister looking piece of equipment. I'd love to find one in my yard, but I have a feeling any tank I dig up won't be of the self propelled type.

NoBaddy · « **Reply #14 on:** December 21, 2007, 02:17:25 PM »

Took me a minute to figure out the site is advertising metal detectors.

Check out "Top 10" on the sidebar (funny how Czech for Top 10 is Top 10

). There are pictures of a T34 and a Churchill that were found and of a cache of assault rifles and machine pistols that were found.