In 1958, one of the Polish film studios placed
an advertisement in the press that they needed a Tiger tank for film production, and they
pay a lot for the tank, two young Varsovians, after reading the advertisement, set out to
search, they managed to track down and extract the tank, unfortunately, to their disappointment,
the Tiger turned out to be the StuH 42, a German armored gun from World War II. equipped with a 105-millimeter howitzer, around
1,299 were produced by the end of the war. Unfor
tunately, the armored gun from Lake Luterskie
remained on the shore and was dismantled for scrap, none of its elements have survived
to this day. In 1998, in the vicinity of Smolensk, it was
possible to track down and extract a German Panzer III tank, it was a medium tank, it
was the most dynamically developed model serving in the German army. Produced from 1937 to 1943, about 6,000 tanks
were produced, The excavated copy was in excellent condition because it was located in a swampy
area, the or
iginal painting and markings survived, unfortunately the tank was partially exported
from Russia, but the customs officers confiscated the turret, the fate of other parts is unknown in 2002, a heavy russian KV-1 tank was recovered
from the Neva River in Russia, which in 1941 tried to cross the river and sank. KW-1 tank Weighs about 42.5 tons, which did
not make it easy to extract from the almost 11-meter bottom of the river, fortunately,
the tank was on caterpillar tracks. tank It was created in
1939 in Leningradskie
Zakłady Kirovskie, it was also produced in the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant in the total
number of 4786 copies of all versions. It was armed with a 76.2-millimeter cannon. After extraction, it turned out that the tank
is still armed with shells, grenades and weapons. The tank has been renovated and moves on its
own, taking part in various historical reconstructions Sd.Kfz 251 basic half-track armored personnel
carrier of the German army during World War II, on the basis of wh
ich numerous other combat
vehicles were built. Produced from the beginning to the end of
the war in the number of about 15,000 copies, usually armed with two MG 34 machine guns. found in one of the Polish backyards near
the village of Kielce, the superstructure partly served as a chicken coop and a backyard
cellar. Sd.Kfz 251 went to the Museum of the White
Eagle in Skarzysko Kamienna, and will be rebuilt to a running condition Panzer IV German medium tank from World War
II. Until the fall of 19
42, it was the heaviest
armored vehicle serving in the army of the Third Reich, produced from 1938 until the
end of the war, about 9,200 copies were produced. The tank abandoned by the Germans in the field
workshop lay for almost 50 years underground, the hull of the damaged tank was towed by
the Russians and served as an anchor to pull out the Soviet T-34 tank stuck in the meadow. The Soviet tank went on and the Panzer IV
stayed in the meadow. Over the years, it systematically collapsed
in the
wetland to the extent that only its rear part was visible above the ground, on
the eve of extraction someone tried to cut the marked wreck in honor, but the ammunition
inside scared off scrap enthusiasts, in 1996 the wreck was excavated and went to The Museum
of the White Eagle in Skarzysko Kamienna, this is another vehicle that is being rebuilt
in the local facility
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