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barnaclebill
 Post subject: Re: Collection Points
PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 1:13 am 
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For the love of the gods please stop it, I don't know if I should dribble or cry! :lol: Although it is an indication of just how screwed German tanks and vehicles were in 1945 and why there are so few left.

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Riedmuller
 Post subject: Re: Collection Points
PostPosted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 4:27 pm 
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timdp wrote:
What are the grenades on the far right of the first photo?

Note the Russian RDG33 grenades in the foreground in the second photo.

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Those my friend are very late war (last ditch) grenades made locally from tin cans or concrete with a simple wooden handle attached and a string attached to a fuze in the head just like the stick grenade very rare and only used in the very last weeks/months of the war

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Salacious Crumb
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les hearn wrote:
the main one that shocked me was the rifles
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you couldnt count em ......and how many went missing after the war :wink:


Why? There where 14.000.000 Mausers made, they have to go some where?

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Salacious Crumb
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did you notice the 3 graves in the last link? I guess they found them only during inspection on the collection point?

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MikeFG
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...and so the looting began...
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Gilhusen
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I wonder what they did with them after the war

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