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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: TwinBoom on September 16, 2011, 03:41:18 PM

Title: Desert Debris in North Africa ca. 1942
Post by: TwinBoom on September 16, 2011, 03:41:18 PM

Slideshow of photographs of various tank, aircraft and artillery debris scattered through-out the desert due to the North African campaign of the Second World War.

These previously unpublished photographs from the North African campaign, circa 1942, were taken from the personal photo album of a member of the 16th Railway Operating Company, 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMuxsZN5TGw&feature=digest_refresh_fri (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMuxsZN5TGw&feature=digest_refresh_fri)

Title: Re: Desert Debris in North Africa ca. 1942
Post by: pipz on September 16, 2011, 04:08:12 PM

 :aok

Title: Re: Desert Debris in North Africa ca. 1942
Post by: Rino on September 16, 2011, 08:02:22 PM

     There was a gentlemen based at Morristown NJ that used to be a B-25 crewchief in North Africa and later Italy
 named Jim Troccoli.  He showed me some awesome personal photos from the war.  The one that really stuck
in my mind was a destroyed Me-323 in a boneyard in Africa.  I hadn't realized that any had made it there.

     Unfortunately he's still up in NJ, and I'm in NC so no chance I can scan em  :cry

Title: Re: Desert Debris in North Africa ca. 1942
Post by: titanic3 on September 16, 2011, 10:17:52 PM

I wonder if there are still wreckages or remnants of it today. I would imagine bullets and bullet casings are littered everywhere under a couple feet of sand.