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8. Unclear if it was a tank training ground

Reply to Melon (Reply #6)

Mon Mar 31, 2025, 01:34 PM

Mar 2025

and they are usually a mess. They were on exercises which would have been using the towing tank for that purpose.
I'm guessing the hatch was open for the tank commander being the one missing in this peat bog.

*People and things have gone missing in peats bogs for thousands of years. W/O spotting the tank track marks this could have been one of those unsolved mysteries.

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Unclear if it was a tank training ground Historic NY Mar 2025 #8

Why assume accident? LPBBEAR Mar 2025 #9

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Video of recovery. Melon Mar 2025 #13

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