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To: Frank_Discussion
In 2002 the French were doing some work in a rural area that would have been a couple miles behind the front in W.W.1 when the backhoe they were using uncovered a tunnel complete with narrow gage electric railroad tracks that dated back to W.W.1 ,the tunnel was used for moving men & ammunition up to the front out of sight of the enemy & under protection from airburst artillery.heaven only knows what is still buried under the soil in the various parts of the old East Germany.
48 posted on 07/23/2003 4:51:00 PM PDT by Nebr FAL owner (.308 "reach out and thump someone " & .50 cal Browning "reach out & CRUSH someone")
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To: Nebr FAL owner
When I was stationed in Crailsheim there were rumors of underground planes in one of the partialy buried concrete aircraft revements. Also there were a number of places on base (like the football field and the "back 40")where we couldn't drive vehicles or our M-113s, because of buried munitions left over from the war. Never got to investigate the hangar,it was supposedly flooded and booby-trapped. I'm sure a lot of ex-military has heard a lot of these kind of stories. I did get to explore a big bunker in the woods in Grafenwoehr that had been blown up and stillhave some pictures I took of a tank graveyard somewhere near Hohenfels.
51 posted on 07/23/2003 5:06:54 PM PDT by wolficatZ
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