Kurland ground dug WW2 artefacts

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Jeese.. May be time for a trip there...( Site in coastal Latvia, where hundreds of thousands of German troops were cut off by advancing Soviet troops. They fought well and repelled numerous commie advances and only surrendered on May10th as they didnt know the war ended on the 8th)

Lots of neat stuff still being found there.. Look no further than ebay or youtube.
 
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A few years back I went on a trip to Quebec City and I went to the plains of Abraham with a metal detector. There was a wooded area there and I went in and got a lot of hits, mostly blacksmith nails but I also found what I believe was a piece of a mortar bomb. I brought it to the museum and they sent me to this building where the deal with the artifacts and they took it telling me they would call me and tell me what it was but I never heard back from them. I would love to go to these WW2 battlefields and go metal detecting! But I think it would be difficult brining back a bunch of WW2 rifles and things like that on the plane!
 
The problem there is that there will be a fair amount of unexploded ordinance buried on those battlefields. While the chances of them going of are very small, they still could.
 
spent hours watching these videos. while mostly the rifles come up very rusted and wrecks. the odd one comes up looking ok. ive all ways been curious if any come up that still work.
 
Some of them do. I watched a show how some of the mp40s and PPSH actually end up in the Russian mafia's hand... It was quite shocking to see some of the rifles coming out of the swamp almost looking new...
 
Some of them do. I watched a show how some of the mp40s and PPSH actually end up in the Russian mafia's hand... It was quite shocking to see some of the rifles coming out of the swamp almost looking new...
it would be a lot easier to buy them from the fellows guarding the wear houses that have them in storage.
 
Some of them do. I watched a show how some of the mp40s and PPSH actually end up in the Russian mafia's hand... It was quite shocking to see some of the rifles coming out of the swamp almost looking new...

They pulled a perfectly intact T34 out of one of the swamps there a few yrs back.. If I recall correctly it had German markings on it. Edit :Ooops further digging,, that tank was found in Estonia.
I want one for my front lawn :)

 
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That stuff from the swamps comes up in remarkable shape sometimes. I remember in mid 80's a couple friends of mine were at digging...Remember when 3 of us were sitting on buddy's balcony on the 5th floor, fiddling with K98 he found near Liepaja. Then one of them loaded the rifle with a round of ammo, which also was dug out off Shkedes dunes and, to my astonishment pulled the trigger. Bullet hit the brick just underneath the roof of building across and I remember how neat the fountain of brick particles looked like then...lol(I still shiver when think of that bullet hitting somebody instead of a brick...) The rifle was in pretty good shape with some pitting on the receiver and dark bore, but after that shot the bore was much cleaner. They were digging a hundreds of rounds of ammo off Shkedes dunes then, mostly German 8mm and lots of Oerlikon type 20 mm cannon rounds. These were very rusty on the outside, thus they could easily separate the projectile and casing. The projectiles were ending up in the fire producing a loud bang, but the treasure was inside of the casing - perfectly intact sack of powder with black German eagle printed on the side and date:1944. The upper part of the sack contained a large amount of smokeless powder and the bottom part had smaller amount of greenish stuff which burned with much higher velocity then smokeless powder... lol. We were teens then and we never thought of consequences from playing such games. I am still amazed that none of us ever got injured or worse - killed. Finding old ammo, casings or projectiles on the beach just a hundred yards from my home was a common occurrence then. Old rusty F1 grenades and mortar projectiles were also a common find in Liepaja at that time...No doubt that there were the heaviest battles fought in Kurland at the end of the war, with Germans furiously fighting back until 9th of May...
 
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