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Below you can dive into my little universe filled with metal detecting, militaria and relics, world war two- and military history, miniature modelling and relic art.
Memorials & Soldier Recovery
In this section you ll find reports from battlefield soldier recovery/exhumations, memorials and war cemeteries.
Inka
Nov 12, 20191 min read
Tirpitz Memorial outside Tromsø
75 years ago today, 12.11.1944, the German battleship Tirpitz was sunk outside Tromsø in Northern Norway. 916 of its crew went down with her
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Inka
Oct 7, 20196 min read
Legenda Military Archaeology Expedition Autumn 2019
Friday morning we went to a farm near Priekule where fieldgraves belonging to Division Nordland had been located. Thanks to maps and the
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Inka
Aug 6, 20191 min read
Soviet POW camp Trondenes
Next to the 800 year old Trondenes Church outside Harstad you can visit this Red Army POW memorial.
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Inka
Jun 13, 20199 min read
Legenda Military Archaeology Expedition Spring 2019
On one of the first shovel scoops we could hear the shouts : "Soldier! Bones!" This could be it. The trench was expanded and side by side we
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Inka
Aug 29, 20181 min read
German War Graves in Narvik
Last Sunday I made a small visit to the German War Cemetery in Narvik. In 1959/60 the orignal German war cemetery was moved
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Inka
Aug 16, 20181 min read
British War Graves in Tromsø
On the old cemetery on the main island in Tromsø you can find the northernmost British war graves from WW2 in the world
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Inka
Aug 10, 20171 min read
Red Army POW Memorial
This memorial is a very beautiful one, sitting on a small hill overlooking the valley. It was here the prisoners buried their comrades
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Inka
Oct 17, 20166 min read
Legenda Military Archaeology Expedition Autumn 2016
On one side of the road were some fields and a small forest where it had been a Russian WW1 field hospital, and on the other side a forest
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Inka
Feb 26, 20161 min read
Dimitri - der Ost Arbeiter
Dimitri was a young man in his 20s. He was from Ukraine. In 1942 he was sent to Norway as a "Ost-Arbeiter" (Eastern Worker).
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Inka
Jan 13, 20163 min read
Operation "Asfalt"
During the war more than 100000 Soviet POWs were transfered to camps all over Norway, with the concentration of them going to camps in North
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Inka
Jun 8, 201510 min read
Legenda Military Archaeology Expedition Spring 2015
The researchers in Legenda had located what could be a large Red Army massgrave and the JCB started opening up the forestfloor.
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Inka
Aug 2, 20142 min read
Memorials in the forest
You fell in the fight against nazism. For freedom,fatherland and all Europe. Rest in Peace
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Inka
Mar 23, 20147 min read
Nacht und Nebel
"Operation 25", which was the codename for Hitler`s planned invasion of Yugoslavia, started 6th April 1941. As groundforces rolled across
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Inka
Feb 8, 20141 min read
British War Graves
In late May 1940 Allied troops were fighting the German invasion force several places in Norway. In a valley just North of the Polar Circle
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Inka
Jan 17, 20142 min read
Aleksey D.
One autumn we had a visit at the museum from Aleksey, an 83 year old man that was a slave in this area. It was a very strong meeting
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Inka
Nov 15, 20132 min read
Fifteen Fieldgraves
Here were fieldgraves side by side along the old rural road. They had been forgotten about in the chaos when the frontlines collapsed
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