Tanks found in the Channel

[PanzerJohn]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...h-Channel.html

[Justin P]

Great Read thank you for posting

[Panzer Rob]

Thanks for posting


Rob

[Igazsag]

I always like similar information.

Igazsag

[FestungSpanien]

Very nice info and pictures.
Thanks for posting the link
Ace

[Darrell]

It would baffle the brain what WW2 artifacts are strewn across the channel floor from Britain through to the French Coast. You can imagine all the aircraft wreckage as well.

[Vix Steel]

Love reading this kinda stuff...

[Gary Jucha]

Yeah

Wouldn't it be facinating to drain the channel and be able to walk amongst the "History" from the ages !!

Gary J.

It would baffle the brain what WW2 artifacts are strewn across the channel floor from Britain through to the French Coast. You can imagine all the aircraft wreckage as well.

[paddywhack]

Wouldn't it be facinating to drain the channel and be able to walk amongst the "History" from the ages !!

Gary J.

id say probably like this!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iXwzBvdrIY

[birdie]

Awesome Paddywhack.........

Thanks

[Gary Jucha]

Yer

Yeah .. thats a great advert .. although they don't seem to show it much on the box !!

Gary J.

id say probably like this!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iXwzBvdrIY

[Seigfried]

The divers, who were eight miles of the West Sussex Coast, were left baffled as to how the Second World War tanks came to be at the bottom of the Channel.
But the mystery was soon solved after a lengthy investigation involving more than 80 dives at the site which is 65ft under water.

They must be among the few people who have never heard of D-Day then, interesting story but hardly 'baffling' or a 'mystery'. I thought that they must have been referring to Panzer IVs or something when I saw the thread...

[army_sniper]

Amazing article.

Being that the tanks are only 65-ft down, I wonder if there's any plan to try and raise them. It would be even better since the vehicles are not very common......

And, I agree with one of the previous posts: it would be fascinating to try and find a lot of the aircraft wrecks. I mean, didn't Helmut Wick go down in the channel? Granted, he was last seen in his liferaft but, even so, it would be like stepping back in time.

[Gary Jucha]

There

There was a documentry on the box here in England concerning the fate of Glenn Miller's plane, .. and unfortunately, due to the heavy and sweeping currents in the English Channel, lightweight metals - as such - have tended to corrode away of the last 65 years or so.
The only real remains of aircraft that are not buried in mud or protected in some way, are now the engine blocks as they were the densist concentration of metal.

Gary J.

Amazing article.

Being that the tanks are only 65-ft down, I wonder if there's any plan to try and raise them. It would be even better since the vehicles are not very common......

And, I agree with one of the previous posts: it would be fascinating to try and find a lot of the aircraft wrecks. I mean, didn't Helmut Wick go down in the channel? Granted, he was last seen in his liferaft but, even so, it would be like stepping back in time.

[paddywhack]

they did raise some shermans that had the duplex drives on them! i belive 2 were raised in normandy(i know as iv seen em!!! ) and aonther was raised i think just of the coast of the UK!