Look What The Dog Buried

[Jesse James]

Must've been a big dog to bury this in the back yard.

It never ceases to amaze me what people find in the old battlefields of Europe...  Unexploded ordinance is the least of it after seeing stuff like this.  I saw a site just the other day that showed other finds like this in remote parts of the Eastern European Nations that don't have easy access to excavate the items.

That thing, cleaned up, looks like it could've been driven away...  It's in amazing shape...  Incredible.

[Nicklab]

Looks like it just sank in the mud.  My guess is that's either Poland or Russia, and those areas were notorious for some mud patches that would just swallow vehicles.

[jedipurge]

That's amazing, wish I could understand the language.  I wonder if there were any remains, if they would've lasted that long in the mud anyway.

[King_Maul]

That's amazing, wish I could understand the language.  I wonder if there were any remains, if they would've lasted that long in the mud anyway.

I was wondering the same thing.  May be it got stuck and the tank was just abandoned.

Very interesting, thanks for sharing.

[Angry Ewok]

Woah. My guess is that it was probably abandoned during a winter campaign, ran out of gas. Summer hit, and it was lost.

[blimpyboy]

I don't speak Czech, but this description was at least enough like Russian that I could get the gist of it: they were walking through the countryside in the village of Demjansk, spotted something protruding high out of the ground, and found a tank in excellent working condition.  They either had it valued or bought if for $1 million.  It was exported to Russia and was sold three months later.

[Jesse James]

The site's from either the Czech Republic or Slovakia...  Found in that area.

There's actually a number of things like these, as I mentioned...  There's a program called Tank Rebuild or something like that on one of the history/military channels.  They found a German tank sunk in a river and restored it the other day on that program...  Most in this river had been pulled out but the one they found was known to be there, but was too deep to remove.  Wasn't in great shape but got restored.  needed a lot of stuff though.

This one in the link though...  Came out practically perfect.  That's just freakishly incredible.  Usually they're incredibly damaged and worn but that thing was just so well preserved...  You even can see the paintjob and markings it's so perfect.