From: Nigel Hay - MILWEB (Nigel@milweb.net)
Date: Mon Feb 24 2003 - 02:15:11 PST
I believe "After the Battle " featured the discovery and rescue of the truck
some years ago - I recall a colour picture on front cover.
Nige
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Subject: Re: [MV] Fw: [MV] Found Tanks
> I second that....
> A couple of months ago, during a long weekend with my wife in London,
> England, we visited the Imperial War Museum. On exibition was a LRDG
> Chevrolet as it was salvaged from the Sahara a couple of years ago. Many
> items looted since the war but still in a remarkably 'well preserved'
state.
> Well worth a visit by the way.
>
> Regards,
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> Cor
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> >From: "Steve Grammont" <islander@midmaine.com>
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> > > First of all, how are you expecting to find the stuff? Just walk
around
> > > the countryside of Russia with a metal detector? :-) In order to even
> >go
> > > over there someone would have to know of something pretty much for
sure.
> > > Otherwise it would 99.99999999% chance of being a complete waste of
> >time.
> >
> >
> >I have for many years thought it would be so cool to go to north Africa
and
> >look for WW2 stuff. Kind of a day dream thing. I always figured Europe
> >was
> >too crowded to find anything good that wasn't already spoken for. I
> >realize
> >the locals in North Africa probably scavenged everything they could years
> >ago, but what about stuff that was too far out in the desert or buried
> >under
> >sand. Are the governments in those areas today something you can work
> >with?
> >I have little money, little time and little sense. But I have lots of
> >crazy
> >ideas. I have already dreamed up a recovery vehicle that could go out to
> >the deep desert and pick stuff up. Anybody got the money?
> >
> >Seriously, has anyone ever made any real attempts to locate and remove
such
> >things. I figure with today's thermal imaging and other high tech things
I
> >can't spell, you could find stuff that has been lost since the war.
Forget
> >Russia, lets look for booty in the desert.
> >
> >Just another off the wall thought from,
> >Joe Trapp
> >
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