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Re: What's still in Libya?
Posted by Mikael OLrog on Sat Oct 20, 2001 03:12:34 AM
In reply top Re: What's still in Libya? posted by Dave on Sat Oct 20, 2001 12:15:32 AM
There's a few SM 79 wrecks in Libya in the dessert. A friend who visited them something like 2 years ago said that engines and parts very recently have been removed from them.
And yes there's still minefields in place from WWII in the desserts.
/Mikael
: : Maybe some FW-190's?
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: BK
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: Someone related to me [ mind is a blank who !] that Kermit
: Weeks was aware of some 190s in either Libya or Tunisia -
: but being a Yank there was no way he could get them out.
: Although I would have thought with his resources he could
: manage it somehow - thru a third party.
: Tunisia also is reported to have some goodies . A German c
: hap on the Luftwaffe forum was asking for info on how to g
: et a Ju52 fuselage that was partially buried in a sand dun
: e out . She was discovered by one of the oil exploration o
: utfits. Didn't hear anything further . A lot of stuff came
: down in remote desert areas and with the shifting sands w
: ho knows what is there.
: An ex LRDG truck operated by N.Z.forces was bought out to
: the I.M.M a few years back , and there has been several Pa
: nzers bought out of Tunisia if 'Wheels and Tracks ' are to
: be believed , and I don't see why not !
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: Dave