WWII German tank videos and links

[Rampager]

If you're into German WWII tanks and relics check out these videos and links.

First, is a T34 Russian tank that was captured by the Nazi's, painted with German markings then later driven into a swamp during a German retreat. Decades later, it was pulled out in amazing condition in 2000 (tracks still turn). I thought this was a cool video:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FtJkyd3JJWE

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2ZHVgMzfD38

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HBK3Zs13p94

Restored Panther tank...sounds like a dragster:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i129YSCL8zs

The Tiger and King Tiger are just plain cool...I coundn't imagine facing these things on the battle field during WWII.
Tiger I: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDTtBEdKVqI

Tiger II (King Tiger): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfbjnQzaBXY

Jagdpather: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIQYUDIjoJo

Great info and museum links:
http://www.wheatcroftcollection.com/

http://www.jagdtiger.de/index2.htm

http://www.achtungpanzer.com/profiles.htm

Last but not least is this site I found...a lot of WWII relics dug up from all over Europe, really interesting I thought.
http://www.lerenfort.fsnet.co.uk/page3.html

Enjoy!

[k98k792]

Hey Rampager,thanks for posting these! Great links!

[M1 Tanker]

I went to a WW2 re-enactment this weekend and there was a "Tiger" from Saving Private Ryan. Nothing like turning around and looking over your shoulder in the field and seeing a Tiger and Halftrack barreling down the tank trail. Pics soon I hope.

[k98k792]

Need to see that! Way cool!

[Private Fuzzy]

The video of the Jagdpather firing is just plain awesome. And here I am building my little 1:35 scale models. Dang.

[Rampager]

Here's another of the Tiger II (King tiger), same video as the other, but this one is longer showing them manual starting with a hand crank.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSmgMzFdv4M&NR

I've read where these King tiger's suffered from mechanical problems including transmission problems. If you listen to this tank as it goes by the camera, when the driver changes gears it really clangs and clunks...doesn't sound like the trans would hold up long in one of these.

[Optimus Prime]

Here's one of the many german tracks they've pulled out of russian lakes over the years.
Supposedly this one fell through the ice during the winter and now is sitting in the Patton Museum at Ft. Knox. Went there last year for some medical stuff and went to the museum in my down time.

[Rampager]

Looks like a Sturmgeshutz III.

Similar in apperance to this tank recovered Poland: http://www.lerenfort.fsnet.co.uk/page92.html I had posted this site earlier at the bottom of the links. It has some really cool pics of WWII stuff being dug up in Europe and the former Soviet Union.

If you follow through gallery 1, 2 and 3 you'll see a lot of WWII recovery relics. http://www.lerenfort.fsnet.co.uk/page3.html

Stuff like this is fasinating to me being a WWII history buff.

[wandering_ronin]

Here is a foreign site that shows alot of cool stuff that has been found and/or dug up:

http://www.detektorweb.cz/index.4me?s=clanky&lang=1&vd=1&mm=2

[Rampager]

Here is a foreign site that shows alot of cool stuff that has been found and/or dug up:

http://www.detektorweb.cz/index.4me?s=clanky&lang=1&vd=1&mm=2

I milled around there shortly, looks like maybe a Czech site?? Too bad I can't read what they are saying. Perhaps an online translater will shed some light. Thanks for posting that.

[Woodman in MO]

I think this thread deserves a plug of the Patton Museum at Fort Knox. A nice day or weekend trip depending on where you live.

http://www.knox.army.mil/PattonMuseum/index.htm

[Optimus Prime]

It's a pretty good museum... thankfully I got to go there on Uncle Sam's dime.

[SteelCore]

Man, this site is super cool! I've been looking at it fo quite some time, now. Awesome relics!

I sent the URL to a buddy of mine who goes with his dad to the battlefields in France about once every other year. He says that at Verdun, if you disturb the turf over the soil, you can see that a buncha the topsoil has white flecks all thru it, sometimes bigger white chunks. That white stuff is BONE fragments. Also, the farmers in the area re-used a lotta the german and allied barbed wire to make their pastures, so that stuff is still being reused today.

They typically come back with some shell casings, bomb fragments, barbed wire fragments, trench lighters, the occasional whistle, and sometimes turn up more interesting stuff.