A plie of Thompsons

[Jean-Loup]

Any thoughts about this? http://www.lerenfort.fsnet.co.uk/page53.html

I herd of stock of US weapons being buried in germany and austria in case they were needed...
JL

[Mike C]

Hi Jean-Loup,

My guess would be Yugoslavia - I remember seeing numbers of mint M1A1s that had been originally sent to the partisans during WW 2 (and which made an appearance 45 years later).

Mike

[Johnnie]

What a tradgic waste, yes? Every time I see a picture like this, I have to hold my breath and go'UUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!
Johnnie

Any thoughts about this? http://www.lerenfort.fsnet.co.uk/page53.html

I herd of stock of US weapons being buried in germany and austria in case they were needed...
JL

[R_Hessian]

Vietnam

The picture is of a portion of guns left in a "storage field" in Veitnam, The other photo's show MG34's,MG42's,M60's,K98's etc.
Darn shame!
Robert

[Gene]

This was a program known as "Gladio", where secret stashes of weapons were dispersed all over Germany in case hostilities broke out against the Russians.

Any thoughts about this? http://www.lerenfort.fsnet.co.uk/page53.html

I herd of stock of US weapons being buried in germany and austria in case they were needed...
JL

[Jean-Loup]

So this is Yougo, Nam, and the Reich if I understand correctly?
Anyways, they are rusted in an interesting way. Had'nt seen that before. Looks neet, how the wood became white...

JL

[R_Hessian]

Link

As I had mentioned here is a link to the rest of oictures of these guns left to themselves in Vietnam. http://www.project-x.org.uk/armsdumpindex.html

Robert

The wood was "bleached" by the sun and climate of Vietnam.

[paddywhack]

ssssshhhhhhhh***********tttttttt thats ALOT of guns!!! wouldnt mind having a trawel through them all!! nice page on the arms dump by the way very nice!!!