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
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?
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) :)
Oh, thank you global warming!
/sarcasm about morons who believe in “science”
The Italians and Austro-Hungarians fought there in one of the nastiest fronts of the war, the 12 Battles of the Isonzo, with a total of 1.2 million casualties.
Italy had used up so many men in WWI that it still hadn’t recovered by WWII. With a population of about 35 million, they had lost about 1.25 million people, with another million military wounded.