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Close to the old camp road I saw a dug out and went to check around it. Below two old pines the detector picked up strong signals. There was a faint sign after a short ditch in the terrain and signals from the whole lenght. I cut open the moss and saw charcoals and soot and my bayonet poked into some metal. I flicked the item loose and saw the shape of it. I held my breath.

And I was right. It was full of metal. But wait! Wasn`t there an imprint on it, looking a lot like the top of a Lappland Shield?

Only a signal or two later the first drops of rain fell. I picked up speed and in the next half hour I found a pocketwatch holder, a bottle

Placed on the very tip of the peninsula there are very litte remains of the fort to be found today. Once it protected the entrance to the

We climbed the hill and to our big surprise we saw rests of buildings and earthen dug outs. Between some trees old German barbed wire

Finding three helmets at once was pretty awesome and they were in good condition, one of them having winter camo even

MKB (Marine Küsten Batterie) 3/512 Lyngen is situated at Spåkenes in the Lyngenfjord in Northern Norway. It was operational in February 1942

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

I found a small dumping pit which I spent an hour or so digging out. Lots of bottles came out from the sand, a pocket knife, a few bakelite

On a small rise in the forest the detector gave off a nice clear signal and I opened up the moss. The soil was sandy and easy to dig and I f

On the old cemetery on the main island in Tromsø you can find the northernmost British war graves from WW2 in the world

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

HKB (HeeresKüstenBatterie) 4/974 is situated just outside one of the worlds largest Maelstroms , The Saltstraumen.

In the harbour of Svolvär, in the Lofoten Islands, Heeres Küsten Batterie 47/973 is located. This bunker complex was built on a small island

In front of the cafe is two airplanes, a submarine deck gun, military cars and a sea mine. Inside the seatings by the tables are seats from