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    #46
    Originally posted by Simon orchard View Post
    If you're unfamiliar with an area then you are going to need lots of luck and often a fair bit of time searching\researching before you find anything. It all boils down to local knowledge.
    That was my point only you expressed it better. I was saying that a visitor who shows up at a battlefield and spends an hour or two walking around is not likely to find anything. I'm just saying anyone who goes over there expecting to pick helemts and rifles up off the floor will be disappointed. Yes, they are found but the chances of you stumbling across something in a couple of rushed hours is remote.

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      #47
      Or maybe I am just looking in very common areas, the Bulge, Normandy, Calais. I guess they are mostly tourist areas. I have found shell holes, foxholes, dragons teeth, trenches and bunkers but I have never found anything of significance that was not bolted to the ground. Maybe someone around here wants to take a collector under his wing and show him around off the beaten path? Wanted to go to Halbe over the summer but I visited a friend in Hamburg and never made it.

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        #48
        Simon Thanks For Takeing The Time To Show Your Pictures , They Where Awesome ,really Injoyed Them , Ill Try To Post A Few From My Trips In The Next Day Or So Cheers Ironcross1

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          #49
          Originally posted by SurvivingPanzer View Post
          Or maybe I am just looking in very common areas, the Bulge, Normandy, Calais. I guess they are mostly tourist areas. I have found shell holes, foxholes, dragons teeth, trenches and bunkers but I have never found anything of significance that was not bolted to the ground. Maybe someone around here wants to take a collector under his wing and show him around off the beaten path? Wanted to go to Halbe over the summer but I visited a friend in Hamburg and never made it.
          MATE , I THINK THAT MAY BE HALF YOUR PROBLEM LOOKING IN THE PLACES REALLY PICKED OVER, BY THE SAME TOKEN IV HEARD OF SOME THAT DO FIND GOOD STUFF AROUND THE EREAS YOU HAVE MENTIONED IT STILL COMES DOWN TO CONTACTS AND RESEARCH. FOR ME I PLANNED MY TRIPP FOR 2 YEARS , FOUND SOME CONTACTS SAVED HARD AND IT PAID OFF .I DIDNT FIND HEAPS OF SS HELMETS ON TOP OF THEGROUND OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT , BUT DID FIND RUSSIAN AND GERMAN HELMETS IN DIFFERENT CONDITIONS , ALSO ALOT OF OTHER RELIC MILITARIA , CHEERS IRONCROSS1

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            #50
            If you're not local, or can only come over once a year for a couple of days then it really is worth hooking up with someone who knows the area and already has permission to go searching on private land.

            I'm lucky in that i own a cabin slap bang in the middle of an area that was on an important supply route into Finland, was the major road down which the bulk of the 20 Gebirgs Armee retreated in late '44 and had 3000 German troops sitting there in may '45. Also the area is undeveloped and forested. it's only a few square miles in size and i've spent a lot of time there but even I find new spots to investigate all the time.

            To find real untouched areas you have to be fit and be prepared to sweat as naturally enough these are in remote mountainous spots that require a certain amount of effort to get to.
            Collecting German award documents, other paperwork and photos relating to Norway and Finland.

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              #51
              I know it's not WW2, but the falklands.
              I went there in 1992 or 93 cant remember with the brit army.
              Went on a couple of battle field tours, Tumbledown etc, all the bunkers were still there with the poncho liners sort of in place, boots, pouches the odd helmet, still live grenades and ammo scattered about.
              The old british field dressing stations behind the battle lines broken stretchers, piles of unopened and opened first field dressings. Plane wreckage, even an old Argy field kitchen just outside stanley.

              Got some picture's somewhere.

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                #52
                litle relic discover by my in 2011 april may

                this is the relic discover by me in denmark http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnGxiHvk3J8

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                  #53
                  When I was living on the island of Rhodes, I did some battlefield archaeology at the south end of the island, where the Italians fought the Germans in September, 1943. I found trenches, shell holes, barbed wire, and picked up some shell casings and Mauser clips lying around on the surface. I also found an intact Schwimmwagen on a junk heap in the old town

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                    #54
                    Originally posted by VtwinVince View Post
                    When I was living on the island of Rhodes, I did some battlefield archaeology at the south end of the island, where the Italians fought the Germans in September, 1943. I found trenches, shell holes, barbed wire, and picked up some shell casings and Mauser clips lying around on the surface. I also found an intact Schwimmwagen on a junk heap in the old town
                    and what did do after you found it???

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                      #55
                      A Schwimmwagen - now that is a find!

                      Did you take pics of it?

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                        #56
                        It was in a wrecker's yard, complete except for the wheels. I was stupid enough not to take pictures of it. If I had been on the ball, I would have found a way to ship it back to Canada, but I was just a young guy at the time

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                          #57
                          I think that could have been the find of the decade - a complete Schwimmwagen!

                          I did not even dream about something like that - hard to top what you have seen.

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                            #58
                            Originally posted by VtwinVince View Post
                            It was in a wrecker's yard, complete except for the wheels. I was stupid enough not to take pictures of it. If I had been on the ball, I would have found a way to ship it back to Canada, but I was just a young guy at the time
                            wonder is it still there? who knows it could still just be sitting there!!

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                              #59
                              For me it is a toss up between Gettysburg and Verdun: http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=512020
                              pseudo-expert

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