Milsurp Finds!!
- Thread starter joe n
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The french interior ministry employs a number of people who's full time job is to recover "lost" ammo, bombs, mustard gas, etc etc from WW1 and WW2.
Some years ago, according to the "Smithsonian Magazine" I read about how a group of french loggers, accidently set off an explosion, by starting a campfire to keep warm, unknowingly, that few centimeter below the ground, was a unexploded bomb from WW1 or WW2. Most of these unlucky french loggers died in the explosion.
Also, the fatality rate among the french interior ministry's recovery team is high, and a number og them has also survived mustard gas burns, left over from WW1, according to the same "Smithsonian" article.
Some years ago, according to the "Smithsonian Magazine" I read about how a group of french loggers, accidently set off an explosion, by starting a campfire to keep warm, unknowingly, that few centimeter below the ground, was a unexploded bomb from WW1 or WW2. Most of these unlucky french loggers died in the explosion.
Also, the fatality rate among the french interior ministry's recovery team is high, and a number og them has also survived mustard gas burns, left over from WW1, according to the same "Smithsonian" article.
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- London,Ontario
That is so so very cool 
I just got back from a trip to Poland to find my wife's Polish great-grandparents' grave.
We went to the village the great gerandrent slived and died in about 1890.
Many stones were absent and the graveyard grown over with 40-foot trees and a villager told us at the end of the war, the Russians captured 11 German soldiers, shot them in the schoolyard and they were buried in the town's graveyard, disturbing numerous older graves in the process.
We went to the village the great gerandrent slived and died in about 1890.
Many stones were absent and the graveyard grown over with 40-foot trees and a villager told us at the end of the war, the Russians captured 11 German soldiers, shot them in the schoolyard and they were buried in the town's graveyard, disturbing numerous older graves in the process.
