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| Legenda Military Archaeology / Latvia: Tomorrow we are going to a very interesting place. |
| 2022-07-12 |
| [Facebook] Tomorrow we are going to a very interesting place. A family inherited a farm in Kurland, by the family legend, after the battles, when family returned in 1945, yard was all full of big unexploded ordnance and the only way for the farmer to get rid of that was to dump it all in a huge bomb crater and cover with ground. On top of that was planted an apple tree, so no one will dig there. The family which inherited the place want to develop the yard, apple tree was cut down and they contacted the police on the matter of unexploded ordnance under that tree. Police replayed that they can not help on the matter, as the ordnance is not yet found. After a moment police gave a call and told to contact Legenda Military Archaeology/Latvia, told that these are the only guys who can help on the matter. Therefore we are hearing out tomorrow to see what's there. In that place should be another crater full of steel and might be buried around a dozen soldiers. Such craters in the yards of farms were found by us before, photos below show one crater like this from two years ago, human remains, horse, parts of T-34, unexploded ordnance and other war rubbish. Hopefully tomorrow there will be good enough cell coverage and we would be able to do a LIVE stream in less than 24 hours. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 Holy cow! Who pays for such work? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2022-07-12 17:31 |
| #1 ...I'm a member of several eastern Europe/Baltic military archaeology pages on Social Media(TM) - it is stunning to see how many finds are still popping up on a regular basis. The fighting and devastation were almost uniformly so bad that when it was over there was sometimes little or no organized effort to ID the lost or clear things up - piles were often shoved into holes or ravines, and that was that. Without exception (on the pages I see, anyways) these groups are very respectful in identifying and handling any remains, no matter what side they were on. Mike |
| Posted by: MikeKozlowski 2022-07-12 06:56 |