STuG III pulled from a Bog

[5.56NATO]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvveoQRVBxY&feature=related

[abpt1]

I could watch videos like that all day long lol !

[Penguin]

I would say it is in remarkably good shape all things considered. I wonder how it ended up upside down though.

[Infidelski]

That's great !

[ATAK, Inc.]

That is awesome! I too could watch stuff like this!

Shows how no O2 means little if any corrosion. That thing looked none the worse for wear after ~70 years. Amazing the track spun freely after a little cleaning.

[El Duce]

I could watch videos like that all day long lol !

Same here. What an incredible find!!

[T2K]

From the language, it's in Russia.

But other questions like:

Was that an AP penetration shown at 07:53?
How did they know it was there / find it?
Where is it now / state of restoration?
When did this happen?

I couldn't find form a brief internet search. I guess it's out there somewhere though.

[El Duce]

From the language, it's in Russia.

But other questions like:

Was that an AP penetration shown at 07:53?
How did they know it was there / find it?
Where is it now / state of restoration?
When did this happen?

I couldn't find form a brief internet search. I guess it's out there somewhere though.

It did look like a penetration to me.

From the begining of the video it almost looked like it was under a mound. How did they find it? Maybe Grandpa told a story of a tank burried somewhere. That is what I am thinking.

[Hobe Sound AK]

No Crew Found Inside?

[Warthogg]

Musta been a Red Cross tank huh.


Wart

[1 Patriot-of-many]

Awesome they can still find stuff laying around untouched!

[mrkalashnikov]

Just incredible, talk about finding buried treasure.

I almost expected them to fire it up & drive it away; really looks in pristine condition. :love4:

This is the 3rd or 4th video I've seen of WWII armor being recovered from bogs/swamps in Russia in recent years. I wonder many more are laying out there?

[1 Patriot-of-many]

Just incredible, talk about finding buried treasure.

I almost expected them to fire it up & drive it away; really looks in pristine condition. :love4:

This is the 3rd or 4th video I've seen of WWII armor being recovered from bogs/swamps in Russia in recent years. I wonder many more are laying out there?
Too bad they aren't laying around in my backyard!

[5.56NATO]

It did look like a penetration to me.

From the begining of the video it almost looked like it was under a mound. How did they find it? Maybe Grandpa told a story of a tank burried somewhere. That is what I am thinking.

Yeah looks like it took a round from a t34 or smaller at gun.

[5.56NATO]

I could watch videos like that all day long lol !

Me too. I love the shows where they restore an old tank or fire it up for the first time in decades. Some guys took two wrecked shermans and made a whole on out of them, as in cutting them in half crosswise and soldering the good halves back together, pretty good welding there.

I figure it was upside down either since it sat in a mud bog for decades and gradually rolled, or the act of trying to move it rolled it. I was watching for the tracks to start rolling but figured that the gearbox would be rusted solid and the thing would be in gear. They musta got it outta gear or broke something to get the tracks rolling. Couldn't believe the road wheels actually rotated as well as the suspension. My guess is there's quite a hidollar market for stuff like this, Russian sellers, western/Euro buyers.

[mrkalashnikov]

Speaking of tank restoration:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-pSjyOG0ZU

Tiger 131 world's only operational Tiger I tank ,at the Bovington Museum in England

[Hobe Sound AK]

Is this the Tiger 1 from Saving PVT. Ryan? There were 2 actually.

[Penguin]

Is this the Tiger 1 from Saving PVT. Ryan? There were 2 actually.

My understanding on that is they didn't actually use a tiger one for that. They rigged something up to look like a tiger. I could be wrong on that though.

[Hobe Sound AK]

I am not sure, You could tell for sure the Tiger in the 1970 Film Kelleys Hero's was a Fake. But I thought the Tiger was real in S.P.R. will have to see the scene again.

[5.56NATO]

I wonder if there are any Tigers in North Africa?

Actual Tiger und Panther manuals for dl:
http://www.bills-bunker.de/117501.html

[N/A]

I am not sure, You could tell for sure the Tiger in the 1970 Film Kelleys Hero's was a Fake. But I thought the Tiger was real in S.P.R. will have to see the scene again.

Found this for you

The two Tiger tanks featured in Saving Private Ryan are reproductions built on the chassis of Russian T-34 tanks. Operational Tiger I's are extremely rare, and could not have been used for rigorous film production, let alone a movie in which the plot requires one of them to be destroyed.
The T-34 was chosen because of its overall size and barrel height. The reproductions were based on measurements taken of a Tiger I at the Tank Museum in Bovington, England, and were constructed by Plus Film Services. The upper hull and turret were sized to proportionally match the chassis of the T-34. Band of Brothers, the HBO mini-series produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, used a similar construction process to recreate Tiger I tanks out of readily available T-34s.
The most obvious visual difference between a real Tiger I and the reproductions are the tracks, which do not feature the Tiger I's overlapping wheel design. Although the front of the tank features the appropriate machine gun and driver's viewport, these two features are a source of great controversy.
The small machine gun of a Tiger I was normally manned by the tank's radio operator, but the gun is fired only briefly during the Battle of Ramelle—blink and you'll miss it (screen capture 1 | screen capture 2). The machine gun on the second Tiger can be seen to move slightly just before it is destroyed. It is possible that both tanks had limited ammo for their machine guns, or that one was out of ammo and the other damaged, or that both tanks had injured radio operators. An operational machine gun on just one of the tanks could have made for some dramatic moments. As it is, the limited machine gun fire in the film is so brief as to be non-existant (and one wonders if it was a post-production CGI effect).
The driver's viewport on a Tiger I featured 6 layers of armored glass, as well as another sheet just behind them. These systems would have prevented Captain Miller from simply sticking his submachine gun up to the port and spraying the inside of the driver's compartment with bullets. Curiously, just a fraction of a second before the second Tiger is destroyed by a P-51, the driver's viewport is shown as having been replaced with a flat, unconvincing piece of material with what looks to be the driver's port painted on! This can only be seen for a few frames (see screenshot number , and is more than likely the result of whatever work was done to rig the tank for an explosion.
Another inaccuracy is the fact that the paratroopers easily open the tank commander's hatch, which would have been locked from the inside in order to prevent the enemy from using such an easy way to kill a tank crew. There is some criticism that the tank commanders are seen with their hatches open, thus exposing themselves to enemy fire, but this is actually a common way in which a tank commander would operate his vehicle, as it afforded him the best view of the battlefield. Obviously a tank commander had to use caution as to when and where he could safely open the hatch.
Both Tiger tanks feature the insignia of the I SS Panzer Corps, a unit that would not have been near the Merderet River on June 13th, 1944.
Because of the limited number that had been constructed, and the disposition of German forces on June 13, 1944, the date of the Battle of Ramelle, it is highly unlikely that any Tiger I tanks would have been in or around Ramelle at that time. The use of the Tiger I in Saving Private Ryan has much more to do with its reputation and popularity than historical accuracy.
The two Tiger I replicas from Saving Private Ryan were stored at The Tank Museum in Bovington, England for a time, but they have apparently been sold and removed from the museum. It looks like one of the tanks may have found its way to the United States, as one was reportedly used for a reenactment of the Battle of Carentan in Monterey, California by the World War II Research and Preservation Society. An article on the reenactment indicates that the Tiger tank is owned by Joe Fazio of San Francisco.Mike Rogers

[Hobe Sound AK]

Thanks I found a video on youtube of that Tank, however it will not upload.

[MJ1]

http://englishrussia.com/2012/02/15/how-to-make-a-tank-in-your-garage/#more-92242

[Hobe Sound AK]

Nice!

[5.56NATO]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxYXNLrXBgE&feature=relmfu

There are plenty of 34s above ground already, but more is always welcome I guess.