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 Ammo casings is one of the items one often find while searching on battlefields. I have a thing for damaged and exploded casings of any caliber and am always happy when I find a torn example. Here is some of the ones I saved this season.     Two WW1 7.62 Mosin casings.   Two Russian 12.7mm casings from IL2 Sturmovik or the DP Machinegun.   A German 20mm FLAK.   Russian 14.5 mm for a heavy machinegun.
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 During WW2 there were many variations of close combat knifes made for soldiers to carry. This season I found three Puma fighting knives in he same pach of forest. In May 1945 Gebirgsjägers having fought in Finland and Russia capitulated and threw a lot of their equipment at this place before returning home to Austria and Germany . They have all seen better days, but one of them had the bakelit grip still intact, and I found a scabbard in the same forest so it makes a cool little set.       Some trench-art items found this season. Both German soldier made and Soviet/Yugoslav POW items.    A signal flare casing made into a candle holder. Found in a dumping pit in a German WH camp.   Another flare casing made into a shot glass or candleholder. This is engraved "Radfahrberg" which was a fighting position on the front west of Murmansk. Found on a capitulation place in Nordland.   Carved wooden ashtray. Found on a German WH camp.     "Home-made" POW dog-tag. It read : Stalag 2H 13530 and has some artistic engravings on the other side. Found in a garbage pit near a German WH camp where POWs stayed after the liberation in 1945.  A piece of scrapped trench art. Found in the same place as the tag above.  POW shank? Found in the same pit as the two last items above.   Part of a carved wooden bird. Traces of red paint on it. Found together with the last items above.
 A few small tin boxes found on German WW1 positions. Incredible conditions to have been lying in the forest for 100 years.   Zahnpulver       |
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