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This stuff was recently due up somewhere in Europe. The Mausers were in a crate & the stocks crumbled & broke off when the rifles were removed. There were also MP38, MP40s, MG42s etc, etc. What a way to spend a afternoon huh? AWESOME!         Doug Humbarger NRA Life member Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club 72'73. Yankee Station Try to look unimportant. Your enemy might be low on ammo. | ||
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We found stashes similar to this in Viet Nam on occassion. Condition wasn't the greatest, but the stuff was definately serviceable. The examples you show must be WWII vintage? | |||
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Polish SR 98's. How sad.   Aut vincere aut mori | |||
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Yep it is WWII stuff. The most credible theory is that the stuff was dumped by a retreating German unit during the end of the war or just maybe a Werewolf stash. Doug Humbarger NRA Life member Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club 72'73. Yankee Station Try to look unimportant. Your enemy might be low on ammo. | |||
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by the second last photo it looks to have been uncovered by the recent floods , not much to be salvaged from that lot.  It's mercy, compassion and forgiveness I lack; not rationality. | |||
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I once worked with a gentleman who grew up in Nazi Germany and was, fortunately, too young to serve. He remembers seeing some SS men burying a substantial number of weapons right at the end of the war. He said that the amusing part of this tale is that when he emmigrated here to Canada a parking lot had been created over top of that cache of weapons. That parking lot is for a Police Station!  derfQuando Omni Flunkus Moritati | |||
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Having been a demo guy for several years, the next-to-last photo scares the piss out of me. Okie John "The 30-06 works. Period." --Finn Aagaard | |||
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there was a norwegian farmer years ago who was out and plowing with his tractor, he plowed up something because his fields had been used by the Werhmacht during the occupation from 1940-1945. Anyway he picked up waht he found and he put it on the barn and the years passed. . then came the memorial for 50 years of liberation in 1995. and it was going to be a exhibition of what memorys and things aswell. it was going to be held at the county house . allright read further.. the army had representasives there,politicians, veterans. one of the offisers was EOD trained and realised what those things was.. German grenades of various kinds. artillery shell, mortar rounds, and hand grenade. he kissed the floor, the exibit was closed down, the cops came and closed the place down and EOD came and took the explosives and blew them up in a secure location. yes and the explosives had been dropped on the floor through the years accidentally . | |||
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"Some answers: Egg grenades really had fuses not screwed in, so they are deactiveted. 24 has fuses on top (not inside the handle...). All carbines were in wooden boxes, laying alternately butt/barrel... Those butts were broken when removing them. Everything was concentrated in very small not deep hole, including MGs... I have no doubts it was burried by escaping german soldiers, but why so many 22LR carbines?! Maybe some guard units? I forgot to mention - most of ammo was ZB Brno production, mostly prewar! And those paper boxes with ammo in strips are Czech too, there are stickers "Ammo for Czech gun Mk.24", amazing how many milions of them Germans had!" Here is the actual artical from GunBoards. Cashe of Firearms found Doug Humbarger NRA Life member Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club 72'73. Yankee Station Try to look unimportant. Your enemy might be low on ammo. | |||
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Some body didn't know what they were doing. I was in US army EOD Germany in the late 60s and that not how you handle WW11 German egg grenades w/fuses or with out. These things were made as HE and WP(white phosphores)and the only way you can tell is by the painted markings on the outside. If you can see any markings on those eggs you have better eyes than me. You must cover them with mud to keep the air off them and then put them in a bucket of mud to transport. You find out what they are when you C4 them. | |||
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Thanks Fat_Albert thats interesting. Did you have to despose of much of this type stuff when you were stationed in Germany? Doug Humbarger NRA Life member Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club 72'73. Yankee Station Try to look unimportant. Your enemy might be low on ammo. | |||
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I only saw one of them when I was there and it scared the hell out of me. We actualy didn't get that many calls as the Germans had contract civlian disposal people that got paid by the kilo and had first pick. If it was small or up the side of a mountain we might get called. There is somuch crap in the ground over there you could not belive. There was a man made forest across the road from are base that looked like it was planted right after the war. About every 30 or 40yrds there was a low impressing in the ground (old bomb crater) and for about ever 7 or 8 craters there was a hole that looked like someone pulled a telephone pole out of the ground. Most likely a 500 or 1000 pounder that didn't go off. We were told that it was like that around all of the major cities in Germany. | |||
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Sort of on the subject of post WW2 Germany... As a kid, my dad was stationed in England working with the first unit in Europe to get the RF4C Phantoms... They did some testing of the infrared film, that was later used in Vietnam to find underground VC tunnels and caches... On one flight in the Southern end of Bavaria, the infrared film picked up a batch of Tiger Tanks that had been put in a Cave and sealed up... They had been brand new tanks in 1945 and had never been field used, there was also tons of weapons cached in the cave.. it was near the Bad Tolz army base... The other interesting thing the film testing turned up was over Baden Wurtenburg, in the Black Forest, they came across a grove of Maple trees...The conifers had grown higher and had pretty much over shadowed the Maple grove.... However in the fall, when the leaves turned golden on the maples, when this picture was taken... the infrared picked up the image the maple grove made in the air... Golden Maples surrounded by dark conifers... were planted in the form of a Swastika with the year 1933 below it...this was 1965.. It was handed over to the German government which promptly went out and cut down the maples.. I have a picture of it around here somewhere, that was an official USAF photo of it.. I'll try to find it and possibly figure out how to post it... When I lived in England in 1963 to 1966, they were finding bombs left over from the Battle of Britain still all over England... We lived in the country side and there were also a lot of pill boxes around that had been erected to combat the anticipated invasion... As kids we use to play army in them all the time.... | |||
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Seafire I will be glade to post that photo for you. I would like to see that. Doug Humbarger NRA Life member Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club 72'73. Yankee Station Try to look unimportant. Your enemy might be low on ammo. | |||
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Appropriate end for that NAZI shit............... "Bitte, trinks du nicht das Wasser. Dahin haben die Kuhen gesheissen." | |||
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When I lived in southern France (1956-57), a farmer would occasionally unearth a cannon shell from the Napoleonic wars with the bursting charge intact, and it was not uncommon to open a buried pocket of WWI gas........ "Bitte, trinks du nicht das Wasser. Dahin haben die Kuhen gesheissen." | |||
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