Like finding a coin in the mud

eagames · Expert Member

This reminds me of when you find a nice coin in the ground, check out this WW2 tank that was in a lake since WW2. Looks like the low oxygen preserved it paint and all Surprised

http://jguntherphotography.com/id19.html

Bob P · Site Admin

Now that's pretty cool! It looks so good considering how long it's been under there. Good enough to drive into a lake Laughing

coppercoins · Site Admin

Neat stuff...I wonder how they knew it was there?

Gabe · Senior Member

Pretty amazing... I wonder how many of those tanks are still buried like that one was.

Danester · Advanced Member

The article said that a young boy back in 1944 noticed heavy vehical tracks going into the lake... and also bubbles coming up. Fast foward to now.... and the old man tells his story.

That's my kind of fun !

Be fun to restore something like that, and then drive it into a Sonics and order a Root Beer Float.

Danester

Dick · Expert Member

If memory serves me correctly, all systems were in operating condition. The engine, obviously, needs to be rebuilt. I imagine there are more,"somewhere", but only the ones with the knowledge of where, and when, would be able to answer that question.
Dick

eagames · Expert Member

Funny.... the day I read about the other tank they were plucking this smaller BT5 tank from a river. I guess we can assume they last better in boggy lakes than in rivers and there are others around Confused

http://fisherwy.blogspot.com/2007/06/wwii-era-bt-5-tank-salvaged-from-neva.html

Dick · Expert Member

Apparently, the Peat boggs make good storage places. The evidence sure indicates that.
Dick

Danester · Advanced Member

The Bog People
Iron Age Man Preserved
By P. V. Glob

One spring morning two men cutting peat in a Danish bog uncovered a well-preserved body of a man with a noose around his neck. Thinking they had stumbled upon a murder victim, they reported their discovery to the police, who were baffled until they consulted the famous archaeologist P.V. Glob. Glob identified the body as that of a two-thousand-year-old man, ritually murdered and thrown in the bog as a sacrifice to the goddess of fertility.

http://www.tornadohills.com/strange/bog_people.htm

Probably one of my ancestors !

Danester

eagames · Expert Member

So if anyone wants to stash some circulated coins they should just put them in a peat bog. Laughing

I'm out of luck, not many bogs here in Arizona, I'll have to trust the bank box. Wink

Dick · Expert Member

ED, you are right. As for trusting the banks; Hmm, "just not too far"!
Dick