Posted on 09/02/2012 7:17:19 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
First World War ammunition frozen in time for nearly a century has been found as glacier melts
WWI ammunition frozen in time for nearly a century has been discovered in northern Italy.
More than 200 pieces of the ammunition were revealed at an altitude of 3,200 metres by a melting glacier on the Ago de Nardis peak in Trentino.
The 85-100mm caliber explosives weighed between seven and 10 kilos and explosives experts have been to the site to safely dispose of the weaponry.
The once-perennial glacier began partially melted during a recent heat wave, allowing the Finance Police Alpine rescue unit - operating in the area between Pinzolo and Madonna di Campiglio - to catch sight of the brownish metal points emerging from the ice.
The ammunition had been spread over a 100-square-metre area during a series of battles fought between the armies of Austria-Hungary and Italy between 1915 and 1918.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Frozen in time: The ammunition was discovered as a glacier melted in Trentino
Conflict: The ammunition was spread over a 100-square-metre area between 1915 and 1918
There has to be a line about France surrendering somewhere in this one...
A whole bunch of high explosive shells with the unstable fuses corroded in place.
Someone is going to really earn their pay over the next few weeks...
Looks like remnants of the wood shipping boxes scattered around. Old stuff but likely still deadly.
It`sa bigga non-nuclear mountain meltdowna I tell you
Pisan!
The most amazing part of this article is that the Italians actually have a unit called “the Finance Police Alpine rescue unit.”
Who would the Financial Police be rescuing normally? Bankers who get stuck on a ski lift?
Rescuing the vacationing bankers’ wallets no doubt ...
Walt Disney was an ambulance driver in this arena....if they find a leather jacket with an illustration on the back, someone is gonna be rich....
Recently watched a BBC program that featured the exhumation of a Spitfire from a peat bog in Donegal, Ireland. The story of the American pilot that parachuted from the plane is extraordinary in itself, but what is even more extraordinary, is the fact that the Browning machine guns onboard were discovered intact. They were cleaned and fired after 70 years buried in the bog. There was air still in one of the plane's tires, and fuel was running out of the engine as it was lifted out of the ground. The pilot's leather flying cap was still intact and pliable, and they found the service manual intact, and still readable. For anyone who is interested, here's a link to the story:
Of course if some 7.62x54R ever melts out of a glacier you can bet it’ll be on sale for $70/ 880 rds within and week (and will still work just fine) :)
lay a line of Det-Cord over it and do it in place???
I think Financial Police are more like Customs.
There’s been a lot of gold etc. being smuggled into Switzerland through the Italian Alps.
Just hire the criminals on death row to pick it all up.
They’ve made some remarkable finds in bogs over the years. Makes you wonder just how much more history is yet to be found.
Oh, thank you global warming!
/sarcasm about morons who believe in “science”
That's what I'd do, but what do us armatures know?
More likely about how Italians always changing minds and switching sides like cowards.
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