I received an interesting e-mail from a colleague. Supposedly it is a WWII German tank being pulled from a lake somewhere in Europe. Just pics with captions that look home made, not from a news service. Anyhow, I was immediately suspicious because it is definately not a German made tank, although it has German markings. Either that or it's Finnish. Looks like a T-34 to me .

Problem is, I don't know how and I don't think I have the capabilities to post the pics. So, if any of you out there are interested, give me a PM with an e-mail address and I'll forward it to you. Maybe one of you guys can post them here and I can hear some opinions on what it may be or whether it's bogus or not.

Thanks.

Later

I think you are $1.00 short and a year or so late. :P

http://www.ww2f.com/weapons-wwii/12560-anyone-know-about-t-34-a-post152301.html

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I'm always a dollar short. I sent the pics to Otto already. Oh well. I guess I was right, it is a T-34.

Later

Will be happy to help post your stuff in the future,if you need.

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Surfing the web, found an interesting article....

Hope you enjoy it as much as I have.

http://www.englishrussia.com/?p=299

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Wow my thread was moved quick!!! I guess I didnt realize that this has been posted already.

Sorry

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The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness. -Adolf Hitler

I was just reading a site that Kai has provided a while ago, and I came across with this piece of information: "Sloped armor would have given the Tiger an even greater immune zone, but Hitler did not want the Tiger to reflect Russian T-34 design influences".
My initial response was literarily “WOW”.
Is this true?

First time I hear about this. The Panther design was at inception heavily influenced by the T-34, someone even suggested in 1941 to make a straight copy.

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Wow! nice find.. I'd love to find a tank in the swamp near my home

*comes back 5 minutes later*

I don't think so

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So it makes two of us.

WOW!!!! After all this time and it's still in great shape. I'd love to find something time this in Chicago's Lake Michigan. Not too many t-34's here, maybe a lost sherman or two.

Peppy >>> wants a T-34 for shopping trips

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I know what you mean, I was also very surprised!! Doesnt look like it was shot, almost seems as if it just sank.

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The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness. -Adolf Hitler

I have heard this as well.

I've read that before Hitler saw it field tested, he almost got rid of the Sturmgewehr 44 because he wanted sub machine guns, not 'rifles.' Also, he didn't like the stamped metal and thought it ugly.

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Apparently it was dumped after the fuel ran out, presumably beutepanzer got a lower priority than indigenous designs.
Certainly wasn't lack of Ammunition as I'm told she was fully laden... Russian woods, gun, ammo, wonder if they tried it?
(By the way, an excellent little site on beutepanzers here.)

Cheers,
Adam

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