Turret-less T34 tank pulled from a Bog

Another Eastern Front relic pulled from its grave

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• ww2
• tank
• found
• T34
• eastern
• front
• relic
• find
• swamp
• wreck
• restoration

[mrbobsshow]

@coycoy75basualdo Mud is a great conservative clay is even better if its totally submerged because it keeos oxygen from getting to it which is what makes metal corrode

[desfa000]

So they are really dangerous with that tank, there was ammunition in it, when you throw the tank like that it got big changes they all be dead........

[GLAORleader]

I have heard that T-34s were made inside factorys, and then driven out right to the battlefield which was sometimes less than a mile away. Maybe the workers said fuck it and never put a turret on, because perhaps the germans were a mere street away. They could have used it as an early Armoured Personell Carrier, seeing how T-34s had a lot of armor, but it just doesnt add up.

[RetroPaintball]

@IPWNFORCHEESE this may have been stuttled, it may have run out of fuel and the crew flipped it with explosives to prevent its capture, or it got bogged and abandoned and slowly sank on one side, the penetration seen on the frontal side may have caused the crew to abandon it, who knows, the lack of a turret posses many questions,

[IPWNFORCHEESE]

So when this was back in the war... did they flip and die inside? And did they die by being crushed, asphyxiation, or starvation? Anyone know?

[1255wolf]

the next thing is wheres the turrent

[TheLittleWorldofGaz]

nothing a little vodka couldn't fix!

[F0M0C0]

@GreyFergy101 Perhaps they never got around to unloading it or maybe they didn't care. I really doubt that they used it very long. Most German vehicles used gasoline, so they likely didn't have much diesel to run it past what was left in or on the tank.

[coycoy75basualdo]

Its amazing how the mud act as conservative 

[GreyFergy101]

@F0M0C0 If it was a recovery vehicle, then how come it was still loaded with ammo?