Very unusual WW2 relics recovered

RRPG · October 19, 2015, 10:34 AM

Hi all

Thought I would share with you my latest video showing some finds made on an old British army camp from WW2. After talking to the locals, it appears the army dug a dirty great big pit at the end of the war, and disposed of huge amounts of unwanted ordnance by, basically, blowing the hell out of it! The video tells the full story, but there were some very unusual finds from the dig.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q9HW727Q64

Hope you like it.

RRPG

T. O'Heir · October 21, 2015, 01:27 PM

Stuff like that is being unearthed regularly in Belgium, etc. CF left ALL of our Leopard tanks in Germany when our idiot socialists(run by the da of our new idiot PM) pulled us out of Europe. Left everything behind at the end of the war too.
"...army dug a dirty great big pit..." Rumours of that going on, Stateside, during the 60's persist too. National Guard unit runs a range day with enough ammo ordered for say, 100 guys. Most of the troopies don't show and there was no 'return policy' for ammo at the time. Dig a big hole, put the left over ammo in, officer's and senior NCO's pee in the hole, thus creating a latrine, fill.

Hawg · October 22, 2015, 01:36 AM

There's a small town in north Ms I forget the name but there's an old munitions depot there that was closed after WWII. All the old warehouses are still there and a few are used for cotton storage. The people that run it say you can't dig a hole anywhere on it without finding live ordnance and there's a number of warehouses half filled with concrete. They say the army put trucks, cars and jeeps in them and then filled them with concrete.

A pause for the COZ · October 22, 2015, 02:55 AM

Thanks for making me kill two hours on UTube

Sure seems like they find the best stuff along the route to and from Leningrad.
Lots of mashes and swamps no one has been in for 70 years. Machines and solders left as they fell. Some of them kinda freaky actually.

jmr40 · October 22, 2015, 06:48 AM

My dad was a WW-2 vet. He never personally saw anything like that, but a friend of his who served in the Navy in the Pacific Theater saw hundreds of trucks, tanks, planes etc. shoved overboard after the war.

The explanation they were given was that so much "surplus" coming back and sold to the public would ruin the post war economy. There were serious, and legitimate concerns of going back into the depression they had just left behind at the beginning of the war.

Another thing is that the war provided a testing ground to find out what really worked and what didn't. After the war a lot of the weapons and vehicles were considered obsolete and newer, better systems were developed. Something had to be done with the old stuff.

October 19, 2015, 10:34 AM	#1
RRPG Member Join Date: August 8, 2011 Location: Midlands, UK Posts: 97	Very unusual WW2 relics recovered Hi all Thought I would share with you my latest video showing some finds made on an old British army camp from WW2. After talking to the locals, it appears the army dug a dirty great big pit at the end of the war, and disposed of huge amounts of unwanted ordnance by, basically, blowing the hell out of it! The video tells the full story, but there were some very unusual finds from the dig. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q9HW727Q64 Hope you like it. RRPG

October 21, 2015, 01:27 PM	#2
T. O'Heir Senior Member Join Date: February 13, 2002 Location: Canada Posts: 12,453	Stuff like that is being unearthed regularly in Belgium, etc. CF left ALL of our Leopard tanks in Germany when our idiot socialists(run by the da of our new idiot PM) pulled us out of Europe. Left everything behind at the end of the war too. "...army dug a dirty great big pit..." Rumours of that going on, Stateside, during the 60's persist too. National Guard unit runs a range day with enough ammo ordered for say, 100 guys. Most of the troopies don't show and there was no 'return policy' for ammo at the time. Dig a big hole, put the left over ammo in, officer's and senior NCO's pee in the hole, thus creating a latrine, fill. __________________ Spelling and grammar count!

October 22, 2015, 02:55 AM	#4
A pause for the COZ Senior Member Join Date: October 11, 2012 Location: Braham, Minnesota Posts: 1,314	Thanks for making me kill two hours on UTube Sure seems like they find the best stuff along the route to and from Leningrad. Lots of mashes and swamps no one has been in for 70 years. Machines and solders left as they fell. Some of them kinda freaky actually. __________________ NRA life member. US Army veteran, 11 Bravo.

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October 22, 2015, 01:36 AM	#3
Hawg Senior Member Join Date: September 8, 2007 Location: Mississippi Posts: 16,188	There's a small town in north Ms I forget the name but there's an old munitions depot there that was closed after WWII. All the old warehouses are still there and a few are used for cotton storage. The people that run it say you can't dig a hole anywhere on it without finding live ordnance and there's a number of warehouses half filled with concrete. They say the army put trucks, cars and jeeps in them and then filled them with concrete.

October 22, 2015, 06:48 AM	#5
jmr40 Senior Member Join Date: June 15, 2008 Location: Georgia Posts: 10,803	My dad was a WW-2 vet. He never personally saw anything like that, but a friend of his who served in the Navy in the Pacific Theater saw hundreds of trucks, tanks, planes etc. shoved overboard after the war. The explanation they were given was that so much "surplus" coming back and sold to the public would ruin the post war economy. There were serious, and legitimate concerns of going back into the depression they had just left behind at the beginning of the war. Another thing is that the war provided a testing ground to find out what really worked and what didn't. After the war a lot of the weapons and vehicles were considered obsolete and newer, better systems were developed. Something had to be done with the old stuff.