Pzkpfw-e Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 On the Ho Chi Min Trail. http://www.laosgpsmap.com/ho-chi-minh-trail-laos/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WCMatt Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 On the Ho Chi Min Trail.http://www.laosgpsmap.com/ho-chi-minh-trail-laos/ That Chinese type 69 (or was it a type 59?) qualifies as both buried & abandoned! Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WCMatt Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 A friend of mine sent me this link. I don't speak Russian but there is some interesting footage of a battlefield dug up Pz. III. Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David I Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 Hi All, Earlier in this thread there was information about Churchill tanks being tested at Stobbs Camp in the Scottish Borders. By coincedence, yesterday my supervisor came in to work. He, and some friends had been exploring the site of the camp. they found lots of spent bullets etc, - and the remains of a tank which had been used for target practice. Although he's not an enthusiast, he reckons that it's a Churchill. Apparently badly shot up, but still tracks there. He didn't take pictures, but he intends to revisit the sight, so I've asked if he can get some. I haven't seen this on any of the survivors lists. Stobbs was in use until 1959, so whatever it is, it seems likely that it's a piece of WW2 armour. Anyone heard of this one? Dave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzkpfw-e Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 http://stobs-camp.bizhat.com/Pages/Page10/page10.htm There's a length of track on this page, but that's all I can find on the net. Interesting to see pictures of the remains you describe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddy8men Posted August 13, 2014 Author Share Posted August 13, 2014 Churchill manganese track :cool2: dave do you think I would be able to recover the track for my Churchill avre ? rick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diver99 Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 I'll be surprised if cutting up & bringing back scrap steel from Singapore would be in the least bit economical, looking at how much was lying around in Europe & North Africa and bobbing up and down in England's ports! Have a look at this as a starter. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1893&dat=19481002&id=8rMfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DNcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3845,1859614 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffy_massive Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 Can you guess what it is yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chopa Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 Trying to bump-start a bimp? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruxy Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 Not a tank but interesting photographs http://englishrussia.com/2014/08/20/wartime-truck-emergence/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddy8men Posted August 23, 2014 Author Share Posted August 23, 2014 give us a clue tiffy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffy_massive Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 Basra International airport 2003. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g0ozs Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 (edited) The front sloped front of the buried APC is too long for an M113 or FV432 - I dont think it's an MTLB or BTR-50 as there is no change in angle to the slope - as to what it actually is I am not sure. Chinese type 63 perhaps ? could do with seeing all the road wheels to be more convinced. Edited August 24, 2014 by g0ozs Further research Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzkpfw-e Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 My money's on a Chinese K63. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g0ozs Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 snap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teletech Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Sent by an ex-pat friend of mine, retired in the Philippines. > Last night Merry and I had dinner as guests at the posh Casa Espanol club, > during the conversation, out of the blue, our host told this story; > > During the consrtuction of the building about 8 years ago, an old man from > the neighborhood told the crew to dig carefully over there, becasue there > was an WWII Japanese tank buried there. He told them he saw the Japanese > dig a big hole and cover the tank as the American forces were coming. Sure > enough they discovered a fully equipped, not too badly damaged tank. They > proceeded to cut it up and sold it for scrap. Don't get your hopes up to > much for finding stuff here. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RattlesnakeBob Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Sent by an ex-pat friend of mine, retired in the Philippines. >................... He told them he saw the Japanese > dig a big hole and cover the tank as the American forces were coming. .............. > However it all turned out?.... I gotta have my doubts over his information ... ..from every thing I've ever read of the way the Japanese fought ????? I'd have to say they were mighty unlikely to bury a tank just because the American Forces were coming ........ ..more likely they'd have fought to the death in it and then got buried in it afterwards ?.... bury the thing without using it in the first place???????? I don't think so Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeePig Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Ah, finally, found the film I was after on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0zieGfrFYw It is in Polish, a comedy, from 1960, about a couple who get married and have a plot of land on which they wish to build a house - except that there is a huge mound of earth on the plot.... Well, it is about a buried tank. Fast forward to about 25 minutes (and also see a rare view of a Communist era beer kiosk). Trevor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddy8men Posted August 26, 2014 Author Share Posted August 26, 2014 lol it was stories of buried tanks in Poland that first got me into this hobby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzkpfw-e Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Abandonned near Rawalpindi. I foresee a few gentlemen around here mounting an expedition! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodsmoke7 Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 The story about buried vehicles in the Bristol area is interesting. When I went down to Southampton to collect the Clarkair one of the dockers was interestted in it and said "When the americans pulled out of the Bristol area they drove alot of vehicles full of kit into a disused quarry and buried them" He did tell me exactly where but I have forgotten. I do however have his hone number somewhere. This would have been around the end of '44 Another story I personally heard from an old boy fifteen years ago was that at the end of the war all the takes form Sutton Hoo tank training range were driven to some crag pits and buried with tons of other kit. This can never be proven as just after the war the area was made into an RSPB reserve. A good way to cover up!!! That's what they did down in Devon on an tank old training ground near Bovey Tracy, once its its declared as RSPB or National trust you have a slim chance of doing any digging. It probably would be in an agreement with the US government so you cant pinch their gear, no matter how long ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean N Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Abandonned near Rawalpindi. I foresee a few gentlemen around here mounting an expedition! These are something to do with the Pakistan Army's storage depot at Rawalpindi, one of Pakistan's biggest depots, and the nearby Army Museum which is located in the Ayub National Park. Apparently a lot of them are stored on behalf of the Pakistani Army Heritage Foundation. It's difficult to see all of them being restored or surviving locally though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcspool Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 These are something to do with the Pakistan Army's storage depot at Rawalpindi, one of Pakistan's biggest depots, and the nearby Army Museum which is located in the Ayub National Park. Apparently a lot of them are stored on behalf of the Pakistani Army Heritage Foundation. It's difficult to see all of them being restored or surviving locally though. Interesting collection, nice to see they have no less than TWO Sexton GPO's (Gun Position Officer): Ayub National Park, Rawalpindi, Pakistan by raihans photography, on Flickr They have a third one here: http://www.urbanpk.com/pakdef/museums/armymuseumgallery.html :thumbsup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WCMatt Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 I would have thought that those plated over Sextons would have seen use as defacto APCs like the Rams & Preists did during WWII.... Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robin craig Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 If you look at the photo album and the museum pictures there are Ferrets in both R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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