Tanks Pulled From River Bottom (Pics)

[SturmTiger]

http://www.nortfort.ru/np/foto_t1_e.html

[JCalhoun]

Excellent!

[bf109 Emil]

awesome pics...

[TISO]

This is a known KV-1 serial number M6069.
The tank was already restored to the driving condition:
http://www.detektorweb.cz/prispevky/clanky/tank-kv-1-vyrobni-cislo-m6069-457/?PHPSESSID=05e5e4260bf53ba8dada6ef7593fed66

Another KV-1 from Neva river:
http://www.detektorweb.cz/index.4me?s=show&lang=1&i=16667&mm=2&xb=2&vd=1

T-34/76 Cherkassy oblast:
http://www.detektorweb.cz/index.4me?s=show&lang=1&i=16529&mm=2&xb=2&vd=1

PzKpfW III:
http://www.detektorweb.cz/index.4me?s=show&lang=1&i=12975&mm=2&xb=2&vd=1

StuG-IV fround in Poland:
http://www.detektorweb.cz/index.4me?s=show&lang=1&i=17062&mm=2&xb=2&vd=1

Bits and pieces in Russia:
http://www.detektorweb.cz/index.4me?s=show&lang=1&i=16351&mm=2&xb=2&vd=1

Dug in T-34/85 and JS-3:
http://www.detektorweb.cz/index.4me?s=show&lang=1&i=15978&mm=2&xb=2&vd=1

A bit of stuff found around the world:
http://www.detektorweb.cz/index.4me?s=show&lang=1&i=17343&mm=2&xb=2&vd=1
and:
http://www.detektorweb.cz/index.4me?s=show&lang=1&i=16803&mm=2&xb=2&vd=1
and:
http://www.detektorweb.cz/index.4me?s=show&lang=1&i=16401&mm=2&xb=2&vd=1
and:
http://www.detektorweb.cz/index.4me?s=show&lang=1&i=16108&mm=2&xb=2&vd=1

The is a lot, lot more

Underwater museum n Cuba:
http://www.detektorweb.cz/index.4me?s=show&lang=1&i=12726&mm=2&xb=2&vd=1

[SturmTiger]

Great links.It amazes me how much stuff is still laying around and well preserved too.

[bf109 Emil]

Great links.It amazes me how much stuff is still laying around and well preserved too.

The Nanton Lancaster Museum is currently receiving a Halifax bomber recovered from over 5000 feet off the coast of Ireland...http://www.lancastermuseum.ca/archives05_2.htmlHalifax LW170 as it was last seen after ditching.

To raise a WWII Halifax bomber from the cold depths of the Atlantic and transport it to the NLS Air Museum seems impossible; some would call it a "pipe dream." Karl Kjarsgaard, a good friend of the museum and a Air Canada, Boeing 767 pilot, says "this is do-able."

Karl Kjarsgaard wants to raise a Second World War Halifax bomber from 1.6 kilometres below the surface of the North Atlantic and put it on display at the Nanton Air Museum.

It's not an idle fantasy.

In 1995, Kjarsgaard, an Air Canada pilot who lives in the Ottawa region, led the successful effort to raise a Halifax bomber from 230 metres below the surface of a Norwegian lake.

and finally something i didn't know and is a shame glad to be living close to Nanton and see this beauty come to life as did FM-159

More than 6,000 Halifaxes were built but no complete original specimen exists.

http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?tsn=1&nav=messages&webtag=ab-canadaonline&tid=2047

[TISO]

Just found this short article from some Russian TV. Pulling the S-65 Stalinetc tractor from the bog. A remarkably preserved vehicle not a sign of corrosion anywhere:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNXAgYb80dE&feature=related

[RedAce]

Recently I've come across an article from the Ukrainian newspaper about the lend-lease Sherman pulled from the river Gniloy Tikich. In 1944 the tank went under the ice together with its crew without making a shot. Now it is displayed in the National Defense Academy Museum in Kiev.

[Ricky]

Wow, thanks! Do you have a link to an online version of the article?

I realise that it probably won't be in English...

[RedAce]

There are two articles about this tank: http://www.zn.ua/3000/3150/48862/ and http://www.segodnya.ua/news/344369.html
But both are in Russian.

[RedAce]

To continue the topic here (http://video.yandex.ru/users/partizan1944/view/218) is a documentary about pulling Soviet KV-1 and T-38 amphibious scout tank from the Neva near St. Peterburg. Unfortunately the movie is also in Russian only, but it's interesting to watch the complex of different actions needed for pulling out the drowned battle machine.

[Ricky]

Thanks Red Ace - much appreciated.