Hello all,
I was posting some old photos in the Paratrooper section showing my old FG 42 and started to go trough the rest of the pictures, and I thought it would be fun to share some old souvenirs with you guys.
Following are two pictures of places where I used to find good stuff… The basements of houses!!!!!!
In the picture one can see a basement with lots of junk that looks promising… the second picture shows what came out!!!!! 4 or more MP 43’s 44’s 45’s one or two MP40 ‘s with no stock, one MG, a bomb of something (I don’t remember) and more junk.
The next pictures show myself with a SS helmet and part of my weapons collection. All of it was given to me or bought for the price of scrap metal in junkyards!!
This ware the good times when stuff was free to take. I would go to houses where peoples where throwing out old furniture in dump containers and I would ask if there was anything from the war. More than ones I had to call my parents to pick me up with the car because I could not carry the stuff that was just been given to me. (They preferred me to do this sort of things than to go out drinking in bars and smoking dope! I will be eternally grateful for this)
It was the time when SS tent quarters where used to cover the fire wood from the rain on the sides of the farms in the Ardennes, When one could still walk the fox holes in the Bulge and pick up helmets, guns, ammunitions (and bones) laying on the ground with no metal detectors.
Times when a German helmet was 1000 fr. ($20) on the flea market in Brussels
It was the time I was 16.
Marc V.
I was posting some old photos in the Paratrooper section showing my old FG 42 and started to go trough the rest of the pictures, and I thought it would be fun to share some old souvenirs with you guys.
Following are two pictures of places where I used to find good stuff… The basements of houses!!!!!!
In the picture one can see a basement with lots of junk that looks promising… the second picture shows what came out!!!!! 4 or more MP 43’s 44’s 45’s one or two MP40 ‘s with no stock, one MG, a bomb of something (I don’t remember) and more junk.
The next pictures show myself with a SS helmet and part of my weapons collection. All of it was given to me or bought for the price of scrap metal in junkyards!!
This ware the good times when stuff was free to take. I would go to houses where peoples where throwing out old furniture in dump containers and I would ask if there was anything from the war. More than ones I had to call my parents to pick me up with the car because I could not carry the stuff that was just been given to me. (They preferred me to do this sort of things than to go out drinking in bars and smoking dope! I will be eternally grateful for this)
It was the time when SS tent quarters where used to cover the fire wood from the rain on the sides of the farms in the Ardennes, When one could still walk the fox holes in the Bulge and pick up helmets, guns, ammunitions (and bones) laying on the ground with no metal detectors.
Times when a German helmet was 1000 fr. ($20) on the flea market in Brussels
It was the time I was 16.
Marc V.
I just get sick to my stomach when I see and here stories like that! 
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