diver99 Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 The advert for the lost spitfire programme Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveo578 Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 By the way the ad. is made I think the producer of the programme has spent too much time watching too many X File re-runs. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diver99 Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 Yes, there is an element of that. This thread could tie up with the buried shermans. On another forum, there is a qeustion of what happened to two shermans which were at the Los Alamos Nuclear Testing site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveo578 Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 diver99 This thread could tie up with the buried shermans. On another forum, there is a qeustion of what happened to two shermans which were at the Los Alamos Nuclear Testing site.I believe Los Alamos used a light tank possibly a M5A1 in some experiments but I don't know for what purpose -it could have been just to protect observers testing implosion rings. I would be surprised if the 2 Shermans were buried contaminated waste was not generally regarded as a problem in the first years of the atomic age -they weren't very particular in examining the old battlewagons used in the Bikini tests. In Australia the Centurion used in the nuclear tests was washed down, had minor parts such as periscopes and soft fittings replaced and put back in service- I'm pretty sure it went to Vietnam later and is in private ownership today. One of the Churchill Mk7 ARVEs once at Bovy was used by the Atomic Energy authority -don't know what for, it's not believed to have been exposed to radio-activity. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diver99 Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 Is this it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveo578 Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 Yes there were supposedly 2 used I assume this one is the tank used to fire restrained rockets into ground zero to collect samples while the zone was still extremely hot, the other one went into the zone and collected samples manually through the floor escape hatch. It is said it reversed in so it could accelerate away if the levels got too high. Note the cylinders to pressurize the tank. It is also said that only 1 tank was used for both rocket firing and then to enter the hot zone. Prior to this the 2 Shermans were used for tests of Lanthuimum sphere experiments and according to one story 1 tank was used in the Trinnity test, it was altered with a lead sheath in the crew compartment and pressurization- prior to that the Lanthuimum test relied on distance and standard steel armour as protection against the high level short lived gamma bursts:shocked: however the area used for these tests is still heavily contaminated to this day. Evidently the documents on the disposal are either incomplete or not available. Do you know if the WW2f web site is really compromised -I'm getting a virus warning! or is it just radio-active:-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diver99 Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 I get the same warning about the web site. Shame really, seems to have loads of goodies i want to see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shakey985 Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 weres timeteam when you nead them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daz76 Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 I grew up near the USAF bases of Mildenhall and Lakenheath and wouldn't be surprised if large 'dumping sites' of vehicles and equipment were found. It would be great if the Spitfire was unearthed though.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diver99 Posted March 5, 2011 Share Posted March 5, 2011 weres timeteam when you nead them? yes it would be good to throw tony and mick down a deep well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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