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9th & 12th Army Surrender Piles 1945

PMKS

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German Army Surrender piles near the Elbe River April 1945

From the Life Magazine Archives - William Vandivert Photographer

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WOW!!!!! I could spend forever scanning each one of those pictures to see all the little things that were surrendered! I really like the pic of the guy with the hi power tucked in his belt! Thanks for sharing!

John.
 
Neat pictures PMKS. And by the way saw a Lebel in one of the pictures too. Plus a couple G/K43 rifles too I believe two of them in one picture.
 
EXCELLENT Grouping of photos , I want to know who`s got the Time Machine so We can go back and Scrounge threw all these Treasure Piles !!!!
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Why hoping to find some K98k snipers in there Dave? :laugh: Got a better idea one K98k for you and one for me and continue that pattern till we can't carry anymore. Or better yet have Farb bring one of those German army trucks over and we can fill it up instead.
 
Even had a pic of the field kitchen....funny..I was just reading about them last weekend and a pic pops up on here..

There was a bit of everything there..even spare 40mm barrels.

They might have run out of gas...and fight...but there appeared to be plenty of munitions left...enough so that we are still buying it today.
 
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See the Gew98M, Moisin, Carcano, KM's?

I guess the snipers did dump their scopes and/or rifles, because I looked hard for a sniper with or without a scope, there were over 200+ pictures in this group, I went through every one best I could.
 
Thanks for sharing great history. The look of it all the bolts are attached and not separated. I bet you they just barred it with help of bulldozers.
 

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