Very unusual WW2 relics recovered

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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.

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Interesting, thanks!

Canada has a few sites like that too, no? I seem to remember wailing some years ago at the expenses for the cleanup for federal lands the gov't was trying to sell to the public.
 
Grawfr said:
Interesting, thanks!

Canada has a few sites like that too, no? I seem to remember wailing some years ago at the expenses for the cleanup for federal lands the gov't was trying to sell to the public.
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And now you know why the ABs have first crack at surplus lands!
Except in Toronto or Winnipeg, where that isn't working out so well.............
 
oldstarfire said:
And now you know why the ABs have first crack at surplus lands!
Except in Toronto or Winnipeg, where that isn't working out so well.............
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They cleaned up the Tsu Tina reserve land that used to be Curry barracks, prior to handing it back to the Natives. Amount of ordnance deposited over that place over the decades, bet there's still a few gems left.;)

Grizz
 
I helped with the clean up at CFB Calgary , the land was on a 100 year lease to the military . every square inch of the base and training area was cleared with metal detectors . every piece of metal was remove before it was returned to the owners.
there was lots of cool artifacts and lots of Calgary beer bottles. nothing like having 70 year old 25 pounder HE shells , dropping out of the backhoe bucket.
 
Outside of Prince Rupert BC there are a number of deep ocean dumping grounds. In 1946 my dad got a job working on Marine barges. All of the weapons stores from the canadian and
us forces were loaded on these barges and dumped at sea. There was lots because Prince Rupert was the end of the railway and ships loaded it for Russia and Alaska. He also helped
build Liberty ships during the war. They loaded it on the barge and pushed it off with bulldozers.
There was a military depot there and the canadian navy took the rest to dump in the 1960s.
 
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