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The Tank Museum missed out on IS3Ms -at least two were brought in for Eygpt by Budge, for ex Soviet stuff I would be spending my time trying to get a T10/ T10m and T64. Steve That would have meant 'buying' which is beynd their ken.

Do you mean which one the TM want? That would probably be any as they don't have any version. They won't have a chance of any negotiations regarding getting by buying or swapping. Unless they get Duxford's. But other than a direct gift, they will go wanting. Are the ones at Shumso near derelict nuclear submarines, check the rads man! There are a few pictured on an abandoned russian tank base. Dealing with the russians is either through govt., and the brown paper bags of cash, or mafia and taking your life in your own hands.

I was also thinking of Lord Lietenant frock coat. But he has China War Medal, so could have retired by the time of WW1. Sorry about the spelling mistake re Davey Davy...How do you spell Lieutenant?:-D

this one is not too bad for ordnance. When ebay stopped ordnance being sold it went onto here, although the british ordnance collectors site is probably better. http://www.specialistauctions.com/categories.php?parent=1946&show=subcats this has been mentioned to me for buying medals which people have not put on ebay, but I think its crap. http://www.speedbid.com/ This site has links to proper auction houses, so you can bid on-line for something around the country or even international. Auction houses have the link to internet and you can follow the auction and bid. I have used this site a few times http://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb

any chance of a better pic of the medal ribbons as well. not sure of Order of St Michael and St John? medal ribbon looks like order of st. michael and st george.

Not Navy, army rank on shoulder epaulettes. Have you typed the latin motto which is on the button into google. That will give you a list of regiments or perhaps only one. It's a frock coat, definitely Army. Turn up the light on some of those davey lamps and we can see more detail:-D

Hello there, happy xmas and new year. p.s. what are the government doing with the 25 pdrs? one in my xmas stocking would ne nice.

There is a chap i met at the Tank Museum who has his own Japanese Tank in his garden. He used to work for Shangai and Midland and got the eastern bug. He often travels to China at the moment and has been comissioned to secure a JS for the museum as it is a vehicle missing from the collection, as in they have not got one.

If you go to Tokyo, go to Yasakuni Shrine, the main military museum. When i went, there were loads of veterans on a day out. They were watching a video of the war and started doing the Banzai with arms up in the air. It was quite intoxicating, and felt almost like joining in. Can see how it gets the blood boiling, as that was just in a museum. I can't think of the name of the park where there were regular antique fairs, i'll ask my sister.

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Get the guns to fire paintballs. That would be fun.

Oh, what you buy, what you buy! I went to Japan for a couple of months in 199 something. There were loads of photographs and albums for sale at their versions of car boots. I was off militaria then but wish i had invested heavily.

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I bet that was a great event. Excitement when recovering god knows what. Does it get written up and published in any form in an archive and added to the history of the airfield/unit at all. Not many parts available for your vehicles though. Have to find a Sherman dump, like Million Dollar Point or the valley at Guam?

Ooh, were you there? What happens to all the gear on that scale being recovered. Yes not a crash site, but archaeology apects should be adhered to if calling it archaeology. If just digging stuff out, be like bottle dump digging with no pretensions to archaeology, just recovery. Don't think me a purist, but i have often seen the term archaeology misused to suit a project. I was on a dig in the middle east, and archaeology seemed secondary to the development of an ego.

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Interested in aviation archaeology may be interested in this site http://www.usaaf.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=47&p=4486

You are not wrong regarding reasons why digging was made harder for aviation archaeology. But, licenses can be applied for, if there are sufficient qualifications and understanding of the archaeology, as opposed to 'just' digging it up. Certain wrecks may be identifed as to their rarity, i.e., being the only one left, protype, therefore an argument can be made as to its recovery. The Dornier 17 recently identified on the goodwin sands is a good example of that. And if you look at how bad the Time Team recovery of an Invader in Preston was, there is scope for good archaeology.

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