From: Dan Maguire (dmaguire@mchsi.com)
Date: Sun Feb 13 2005 - 09:30:17 PST
One man's treasure...
Also, I think that it is amazing how much of the earth doesn't get
trampled on very often. Some of the places war takes people just don't
get visited again until the next one.
But I'm with you, Arthur. If I were over there, I would be poking
around. I would sure be hoping that I could get a fancy metal detector
with an "unexploded shell/mine" indicator light.
Dan
Auburn, IN
m35products wrote:
> Nige:
>
> These stories always fascinate me. How in the world is that 60 years have
> passed, and these items have only now been discovered? If a war had taken
> place in MY backyard, you can jolly well assume that I would have been out
> there with the metal detector long before this.
>
> apb
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nigel Hay -MILWEB" <Nigel@milweb.net>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 10:15 AM
> Subject: [MV] Todays WW2 discoveries
>
>
>
>>On a bitterly cold day today with sleet and snow I was trampimg around
>
> Haut
>
>>Perrier, Normandy trying to locate a specific farm which was one of the
>
> key
>
>>objectives during the fight for the Perrier Ridge in Aug 1944.
>>
>>First I found a piece of Sherman track, rubber pad still pretty good -
>
> then
>
>>about 20 feet away a rather battered but nice British 75mm shell case - I
>>wonder if a Sherman had been knocked out up this track?. Both finds lay
>>where they was cast away ( or perhaps blown away) for 60 years...
>>
>>
>>Cheers, NH
>>
>>
>>
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