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Offline MrRiplEy[H]

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Re: Dornier DO 17 bomber found in the English Channel
« Reply #15 on: May 05, 2013, 11:20:45 PM »
Isnt it crazy how nobody were thoughtful enough to preserve samples of these planes after WWII and now they have to spend fortunes restoring old wrecks...
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Re: Dornier DO 17 bomber found in the English Channel
« Reply #16 on: May 05, 2013, 11:43:26 PM »
     Actually it's pretty understandable that after years of war, the folks would not want reminders hanging around.  Sure they
are interesting and valuable now, but back then they were useless junk that reminded folks of what they had suffered.
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Re: Dornier DO 17 bomber found in the English Channel
« Reply #17 on: May 06, 2013, 12:19:17 AM »
Very few Do17's survived the war. After all, production ended in 1940. Of the few survivors Finland scrapped the last one in 1952.
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Re: Dornier DO 17 bomber found in the English Channel
« Reply #18 on: May 07, 2013, 06:22:54 AM »
Yes back then no one thought of preservation particularly since they were valuable as scrap metal. No one was thinking: 'I'll put a away a few of those. They'll be valuable in 70 years time when I'm dead.' The price of much militaria has shot up in recent years. Even the basic items like WW2 GI helmets have begun to be worth from  a couple of hundred dollars up a couple of grand each even if there are thousands of them still around. As for German helmets and anything German really. They're literally worth their weight in gold.
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Re: Dornier DO 17 bomber found in the English Channel
« Reply #19 on: May 07, 2013, 07:49:32 AM »
Who would pay $1000 dollors for a German helmet?

They were on the losing side :old:

Ahhhhh!

German engineering that went into making it :rofl




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Re: Dornier DO 17 bomber found in the English Channel
« Reply #20 on: May 07, 2013, 04:00:16 PM »
Quote from: zack1234 on May 07, 2013, 07:49:32 AM
Who would pay $1000 dollors for a German helmet?

They were on the losing side :old:

Ahhhhh!

German engineering that went into making it :rofl
$1000 for a helmet is cheap. Some of them can go for $12,000 particularly the SS ones.
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Re: Dornier DO 17 bomber found in the English Channel
« Reply #21 on: May 07, 2013, 10:59:58 PM »
Quote from: cpxxx on May 07, 2013, 04:00:16 PM
$1000 for a helmet is cheap. Some of them can go for $12,000 particularly the SS ones.

let's go halves Zack! We can each ge an S! S for
super!!!!'
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Re: Dornier DO 17 bomber found in the English Channel
« Reply #22 on: May 08, 2013, 12:29:23 AM »
yes :rofl
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