Menu
What's new
Find's Treasure Forums

Welcome to Find's Treasure Forums, Guests!

You are viewing this forums as a guest which limits you to read only status.

Only registered members may post stories, questions, classifieds, reply to other posts, contact other members using built in messaging and use many other features found on these forums.

Why not register and join us today? It's free! (We don't share your email addresses with anyone.) We keep email addresses of our users to protect them and others from bad people posting things they shouldn't.

Click here to register!

Need Support Help?

Cannot log in?, click here to have new password emailed to you

Changed email? Forgot to update your account with new email address? Need assistance with something else?, click here to go to Find's Support Form and fill out the form.

WW2 Battlefields?

H

Hank68

Well-known member
Has anybody ever hunted a WW2 battlefield or beach just wondering?
 
its common in France and Belgium
 
I was stationed in Okinawa in 1979 and 1980. Found a lot of WW2 stuff. HOWEVER, the law is for military people anyway, that anything that is or was an explosive device cannot be brought back to the USA. No guns, no bullet heads, no cartridges, I even had hollowed out pineapple grenades I couldn't bring back. So everything I collected stayed. To see all the shells, blown up ships and a submarine was very eerie. I even came across a torpedo and a depth charge and HUGE naval gun shells. The Japanese will NOT do anything with the stuff on the bottom UNLESS it is in wading or shallower water when the tide goes out. I think I am glad I didn't have a detector back then. All the bullets we saw embedded in the coral was just overwhelming.
 
Holy cow that would be overwhelming to see bullets embedded in the coral, thanks for the information!
 
Related to the subject ?.
 
I broke the tops off pineapple grenades underwater and hollowed them out. I called the Japenese police on a live mortar and a live probably 14" naval shell laying on the coral after the tide went out. When we came across the torpedo. US STUPID young idiots raised it with a lift bag by the propeller on the end. Took it out to where you couldn't see the bottom and cut the rope and swam like heck to get away. LOL , it didn't explode. RATS I think!! Visibility was 150' so it went a lot deeper than that.

Saw two LST landing craft blown to bits, Lots and lots of rifle shells on 5 round stripper clips fused together in the shape of ammo boxes, Just too much stuff to list. You know thousands of people died and it was just eerie. And yes to find all the flattened bullets in the coral mountains and hills by the water was just spooky. I found one USA belt buckle imbedded in the coral with two bullets within an inch of it. That was the most solom thing I can remember coming across. ANYWHERE you dove in Okinawa unless it was all sand you could come across WW2 items back then. I sure wish I would have taken underwater pictures. I had just learned to dive and I was more interested in sea shells than things I couldn't bring home. And WW2 never interested me till I got older. And of course I kick myself for not being into it more and diving on other things I could have.

The Japanese destroyer was at the south end of the island in a bit over a 150' of water. What was VERY eerie was snorkeling across the top and it coming into view on the bottom. I was only down on it for about 5 minutes before I ran out of air. BUT you could see it clearly ALL the way down!!! As I said completly spooky to me!!

Coming across an old wood row boat underwater is spooky to me also!!! Never understood that.
 
n/t
 
diggers in belgium find more stuff from WW1 as they left more behind much in dangerous condition ,some guys get maimed and killed digging in WW1 battlefields areas
 
In the trench areas I think it read..
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top