Dug up things?

[Lasse L]

Hello.

Anyone who has anything from ww2 they have found they wanna show? Would be nice to see and if you have a bit of story behind the item please tell it to, how you found it and so, myself i really dont have anything as sweden was neutral during the war.

[Adrian Stevenson]

Hi Lasse, I have a few pics, nothing dug, just surface finds.

LIVE 75mm US Pack Howitzer fuse; April of last year in the South of France.

Cheers, Ade.

[Lasse L]

May I ask what you did with it?

[Adrian Stevenson]

Hi Lasse, I left it well alone! Never touched it; just photoed it.


Cheers, Ade.

[Kloster]

Hello.

Anyone who has anything from ww2 they have found they wanna show? Would be nice to see and if you have a bit of story behind the item please tell it to, how you found it and so, myself i really dont have anything as sweden was neutral during the war.

a trip west or south, just a few km depending on your location could aid you

well, sadly i cant post a picture, but my younger brother got a metal dector and we get some time getter at times, he found a danish DNSAP pin, for members, in a very crude condition, he may have it still or not, been 4 years ago since we found it.

Kloster

[Greg]

Hi Lasse,

These three items were dug in a field east of Gaumesnil in Normandy, at the supposed location where Michael Wittmann's Tiger I was destroyed on 8.8.44. The location is pretty easy to find using Jean Paul Pallud's photos in "Panzers in Normandy Then and Now." The large piece is a curved piece of steel about 6-7mm thick, and the piece to the upper right is what remains of a large grease fitting that's part brass.

Is this stuff really from Wittmann's tank? Who knows; they could be pieces off a French tractor for all I know! I dug them from about three inches down, using a metal detector.

I dug some other stuff from the Ardennes in Belgium that I'll have to dig up the photos.

Regards,
Greg

[Sturmmann]

i have MP that i dug out...but i can't post pictures in here so you just have to imagine how does it look like

[Jørn Schmidt]

This Walther was picked up last year in a forrest here in Denmark.
Cheers
J.S

[Joe N]

A couple things over the years, most from Eastern Slovakia

[Mark S.]

i have MP that i dug out...but i can't post pictures in here so you just have to imagine how does it look like

you've seen one rusted up gun, youve seen em all.

I suppose the fun is in finding these relics, as I couldnt see actively persuing such items any other way.

[Joe N]

The fun IS in finding these relics. If you have never personally found one of these I can see why you would say that. I think alot of people (myself for certain) can look at such items as a true representation of history, not just a piece of metal. JMHO.

[kennethc]

I can imagine the german officer fired the last shot on P38 before got himself killed or arrested... very dramatic ...


ken

[ROBB]

I love that Luger ,where was it ,in water or burried under the ground ,I can only dream of finding a Luger ,Rob

[Joe N]

I love that Luger ,where was it ,in water or burried under the ground ,I can only dream of finding a Luger ,Rob

Thanks Guys! The Luger was in a drained lake, and the P38 was in the bank nearby. I have posted quiet a few of my finds over the years here, including the firearms. My friend has found an MP44 and as soon as he gets back from CA I will get the pics to post. I was amazed about how nicely the wood grips were still intact.
Here is the last pistol I found with the detector, although not in the ground, but in an attic.
Round was still in it!!

[Joe N]

Thanks Guys! The Luger was in a drained lake, and the P38 was in the bank nearby. I have posted quiet a few of my finds over the years here, including the firearms. My friend has found an MP44 and as soon as he gets back from CA I will get the pics to post. I was amazed about how nicely the wood grips were still intact.
Here is the last pistol I found with the detector, although not in the ground, but in an attic.
Round was still in it!!

Here are some of the awards. Just have to say (again) I do not dig graves or battlefields.