Bulgaria's lost panzers

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Bulgaria scrambles to rescue forgotten German WWII tanks
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ieJBvv9fBtCP9fMVoDwwNMdZDdHA

VODEN, Bulgaria (AFP) — Until recently, more than 100 rusty military tanks lay half-buried and almost forgotten in deserted fields near Bulgaria's southeastern border, planted as a Cold War deterrent to NATO's southern flank.

But the theft of a rare vintage model sent the army scurrying this month to start a recovery operation to save those still left from looters.

 

[imported_the_librarian]

I just checked google maps thought maybe something might show up on the satellite view...darn..nothing.

Anybody find any grid coord. on this???

 

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Try these waypoints:

Until then, dozens of Russian T-34 and German Panzer III and IV tanks, dug in as “permanent firing points” after the Second World War, had been rusting undisturbed near the villages of Lesovo, Fakiya, Sharkovo and Voden.

From an article, which some more interesting details, at -
http://www.vagabond-bg.com/print.php?open=751

 

[imported_the_librarian]

Drat! They must have shut the door, no satellite images at a legible level of detail! Dadgum it!!!

Thanks for the info. tho!

 

[Twitch]

Well it goes to show that if you wait long enough one man's junk is another man's treasure.

 

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Bulgaria's WWII tanks to go under hammer
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ih4WJqbno4fMEm-EbYaeH7opm6NA

SOFIA (AFP) — Bulgaria is to auction off World War II Panzer tanks thought to be worth millions of dollars, the country's defence ministry said Thursday.

"People from all over the world, from America to Jordan, have declared an interest in these rare German tanks," the deputy director of Sofia's military history museum, Blagoy Milenov, told a press conference.

Six Panzer IV tanks will go under the hammer on March 19 "to gauge their value," with another 41 going on the market in May, according to Emil Petrov, a defence ministry heritage official.