Stevie-Ray
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Hmmm....P-39 Airacobra. Pretty much junk to us, but when we gave them to the Soviets, they made decent use of them. They did have a pretty cool cannon in the nose even with it's low cyclic rate.
"Black Diggers" (pics)
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UXB unexploded ordnance continues to be a problem all over the world. Even in the US.
Civil War cannonballs can still be deadly, The same is true of all types of Ordnance which works to the surface on former bombing and Artillery ranges throughout the US. Many former ranges have been converted to National Parks and in sum cases housing areas.
The Peason Ridge training area, Fort Polk La, is an old WWII bombing range. When I was stationed there my EOD Team spent many days destroying old ordnance which were found during training exercises.
Civil War cannonballs can still be deadly, The same is true of all types of Ordnance which works to the surface on former bombing and Artillery ranges throughout the US. Many former ranges have been converted to National Parks and in sum cases housing areas.
The Peason Ridge training area, Fort Polk La, is an old WWII bombing range. When I was stationed there my EOD Team spent many days destroying old ordnance which were found during training exercises.
I saw a special on the History Channel about unexploded ordinance in Vietnam. Operation Rolling Thunder left literally millions of "bombies" (small spherical bombs which came from a larger canister which explode and throw small pellets). There was tape of childeren playing catch with a bomb. You could see bombs 50+ feet in the air, pushed up by growing bamboo. Pretty heavy stuff.
"Black Diggers" The Dark Side
Nazi grave robbers stealing medals, equipment and BODY PARTS to sell
By Rick Dewsbury
PUBLISHED: 08:20 EST, 20 August 2012 | UPDATED: 09:32 EST, 20 August 2012
Grave robbers are plundering the burial sites of thousands of German soldiers to feed the demand in Britain for Nazi memorabilia.
Tens of thousands of troops from the Third Reich were killed in battlefields in east Europe during the Second World War. Alongside their fallen bodies were items such as dog tags, rifles, daggers and helmets.
Organised gangs are now digging up the graves of the dead soldiers to make off with the valuable items. The trade in Nazi memorabilia is worth millions of pounds and Britain is one of a handful of European countries where it is still legal.
But Armed Forces groups have slammed the practice of unearthing the bodies of the men in the hunt for collectible items. The bones are simply scattered on the ground or tossed into mass graves, or in some cases they are even sold.
Military archaeologist Peter Reed branded it 'wholesale looting' and said the men's skeletons are 'tipped into holes'.
'Second Word War archaeology is in its infancy at the moment, and these people are destroying our future, as well as desecrating the graves of fallen soldiers who do not deserve to have their bones dug up,' he told The Times.
The trade is focused around battlefields in eastern Europe and Russia. Items being sold at recent fairs include those excavated from sites in Demyansk in Russia and Kurland in Latvia.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-equipment-BODY-PARTS-sell.html#ixzz248qRlzWX
Nazi grave robbers stealing medals, equipment and BODY PARTS to sell
By Rick Dewsbury
PUBLISHED: 08:20 EST, 20 August 2012 | UPDATED: 09:32 EST, 20 August 2012
Grave robbers are plundering the burial sites of thousands of German soldiers to feed the demand in Britain for Nazi memorabilia.
Tens of thousands of troops from the Third Reich were killed in battlefields in east Europe during the Second World War. Alongside their fallen bodies were items such as dog tags, rifles, daggers and helmets.
Organised gangs are now digging up the graves of the dead soldiers to make off with the valuable items. The trade in Nazi memorabilia is worth millions of pounds and Britain is one of a handful of European countries where it is still legal.
But Armed Forces groups have slammed the practice of unearthing the bodies of the men in the hunt for collectible items. The bones are simply scattered on the ground or tossed into mass graves, or in some cases they are even sold.
Military archaeologist Peter Reed branded it 'wholesale looting' and said the men's skeletons are 'tipped into holes'.
'Second Word War archaeology is in its infancy at the moment, and these people are destroying our future, as well as desecrating the graves of fallen soldiers who do not deserve to have their bones dug up,' he told The Times.
The trade is focused around battlefields in eastern Europe and Russia. Items being sold at recent fairs include those excavated from sites in Demyansk in Russia and Kurland in Latvia.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-equipment-BODY-PARTS-sell.html#ixzz248qRlzWX