From: Greg (czechsix@cox.net)
Date: Fri Feb 21 2003 - 19:30:52 PST
Sounds good - I'm an Archaeologist II, excavation, survey, and lab
certified.
When? :)
And my wife has some of her family in Kiev....
Greg
Vista,CA
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From: <fred@militaryvehicle.org>
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Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 3:19 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Found Tanks
> I think we should organize an archeological
> expedition to go over and get some (tanks). Can
> use a few weeks away from the old lady. Maybe
> Bruce can bring his girlfriend.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ryan M Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>
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> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 6:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [MV] Found Tanks
>
>
> > At 5:41 PM -0500 2/21/03, Steve Grammont wrote:
> > >
> > >As to the condition, sitting totally encased in
> mud is actually a good
> > >thing. No oxygen, which is really needed to
> cause serious corrosion.
> >
> > They should be treated like archealogical digs
> for the first few
> > phases of their recovery. The amount of gear,
> parts, kit and other
> > stuff in those vehicles should be time capsules.
> Especially if the
> > crew only had time to grab key gear before it
> sunk into the mud. That
> > PZIII still had it's hull MG. Wow....that's just
> amazing when you
> > think about it. Its as close to the "go back in
> time and grab one
> > from the motorpool" perfect idea that MV
> collectors could get.
> >
> >
> > >The ex-WWII battlefields in the East are
> littered with this stuff. The
> > >countries realize that they are worth
> substantial sums of money and are
> > >therefore eager to find these things.
> Especially since they are state
> > >property and that means the money goes right to
> them.
> >
> > I have to wonder if one could locate some
> Lendlease British and US
> > gear over there still preserved.
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