Hitman_one Posted September 7, 2010 Share #1 Posted September 7, 2010 Apologies if this in the wrong section but i saw this feature in the paper today and thought it may be of interest to members here. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/...ar-history.html I wonder if he will do any research on some of the tags?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nix284 Posted September 7, 2010 Share #2 Posted September 7, 2010 Dang, he found a lot of cool stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack's Son Posted September 7, 2010 Share #3 Posted September 7, 2010 If he's not careful, he'll have his yard roped off and a hundred researchers digging around. Then someone on our forum will organizes a dig, and he's really in trouble !! :w00t: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted September 7, 2010 Share #4 Posted September 7, 2010 Great story! A few weeks ago someone posted a video-clip of an interview with this guy. Amazing discoveries seemingly forgotten about within a generation. Sabrejet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktrooper Posted September 7, 2010 Share #5 Posted September 7, 2010 There is a development in my town, that on the property was a POW camp and a Radar installation. now its rich peoples homes and a golf course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parafrag Posted October 25, 2013 Share #6 Posted October 25, 2013 Some guys have all the luck ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8thairforce Posted January 16, 2015 Share #7 Posted January 16, 2015 Every collectors dream !! Can you imagine . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D_Funk Posted February 23, 2015 Share #8 Posted February 23, 2015 Nothing like that in my garden.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwb123 Posted February 23, 2015 Share #9 Posted February 23, 2015 I was surveying Google Maps images for old Coast Artillery fort locations. I forget exactly where this was... I want to say in the Carolinas, but I found where a pair of luxury sea front homes had been built on top of the former casements! I suppose they'd be very solid in a storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katieony Posted February 25, 2015 Share #10 Posted February 25, 2015 Interesting story! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwb123 Posted February 25, 2015 Share #11 Posted February 25, 2015 Finding a POW camp in your backyard is better than finding a WWII ammo dump. My cousins lived outside of Wilmington, Delaware, a state that is dominated by the manufacturer DuPont. DuPont made their original family fortune by manufacturing gunpowder for the American Army during the Revolution. (A risky business in many respects!) Anyway... my cousins were playing in the back yard one day and one of them saw something shiny in the dirt. They dug it out and took it to Mom and Dad inside the house. It turned out to be a live, fused anti aircraft shell! Local authorities were called and out came the backhoes. The area used to be a back lot for a munitions plant and apparently this was one of several defective rounds that was disposed of by burial. Trouble is the shifting soil brought them back up closer to the surface. All ended well, but a scary moment for all concerned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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