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WW2 relicts in my back yard / coke & bullets
The cartridge was indeed found with a metal detector. It lay almost a foot below ground. My neighbourhood was bombed quite heavily because of the airfield which was located a mile to the south. Today my wife and I were jogging in the forest here and you can still see craters. We also found a lot...- FenderBender
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WW2 relicts in my back yard / coke & bullets
Grüß Gott willong, my fellow Stuttgarter! The digital world is small, isn't it? And the similarities don’t end with the city…. My maternal grandfather was a refugee from Gleiwitz, also Upper Silesia (now Gliwice, Poland) which is a 20 minutes drive from Bytom. Born in 1930 he was only 14 or 15...- FenderBender
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WW2 relicts in my back yard / coke & bullets
Thanks for the replies and the additional info. I really like the pic of the GIs with the box of bottles. Of course I also assume that some thirsty US soldier had a chilled coke in the summer of 44 and tossed it out of his willys jeep while singing " It's a Long Way to Tipperary " with his pals...- FenderBender
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WW2 relicts in my back yard / coke & bullets
Let me kick this off with a friendly “Grüß Gott” from Germany! Two weeks ago my boys were picking trash along the embankment of a road near our house. The money they collect for returning the bottles is then spent on sweets - classical win-win-situation :-) Even the dentist is happy … Deposit...- FenderBender
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