wandering the battlefields

I think this is a mess kit of some kind (it was bigger than the german ones)...Or maybe a gas mask container...Hard to say. One very rusty find, with a thin wire handle and no lid.




This post has been edited by ANDI on April 06, 2009 04:25 pm

Yummy! We want more! Show us, show us

"That's all folks!"...at least for now.

I think this was an enameled ww1 german mess kit, without the lid.
Check this website, item 1013:
http://www.nomanslandmilitaria.com/WW1_German_1.html

I also think that the spade is german too. There are no markings on it (like on the russian ones), although they are similar.

Some more m93 rusty ammo and spent cases...

One big piece from a shell fuze, cca 7cm in diameter.

Some huge chunks of shell. My guess is those pieces are debris from huge explosions caused by the AH or german heavy mortars. In one of the pics you can see the pointed tip of what appears to have been a huge shell.
The metal was about 5cm in thickness and had very sharp edges still....
They were found close to some huge craters (6m in diameter) in the woods.

Something interesting to read :
http://english.pravda.ru/science/mysteries/110207-1/

Someone near Onesti that needs another person on their wandering the battlefields? I would like to go search some relics but i don't know where. I founded in my garden a 7,42 shell, on his but it is written 1942 A, don't know how it ended there because there was not battle field there.Does any one have a battle field map near Onesti?

No fishing this summer ANDI? or something happend?

last week i was on a trip and returning to Brasov i went from Oarba De Mures-Tarnaveni-Medias-SIghisoara.


-first, Oarba De Mures as seen by advancing romanian army described in Col. Ion Botea's book.




-going further i arrived next to the village Cucerdea, were heavy fightings took place. I found a cross(dated 41) on the field next to some possible fortification area. Also on the field , next to the small hill, the people gather a lot of concrete pieces (from a small bunker i think). Too bad that i didn't had an MD with me

what the romania army saw





now german/hortyist point of view over the road to Cipau






reinforced concrete pieces in the corn fields

so...i was going counter the romanian advance, next Tarnaveni.

This caught my attention as it is positioned right on the hill that guards the city, surrounded by barbwire(not anymore)









It's not a water tower, not power buliding....what is it? Is it from war? I thouht that it could be from war becouse of its possition(guarding the city). Also next to the building is a concrete road


i wait for oppinions....

The brics are modern.
No way a WW2 relict.

Funny one...

-i was about to enter Tarnaveni, i saw an old woman gathering nuts on road side. I stop and ask her about ww2, if she knows anything. I was waiting to hear as in grandmother village....germans to that....russian....bomb exploded etc. She looks at me and she said : " there where no fightings here...only at Mures area". 200 meters from her house i found this:


grave for some 450-500 soldiers from Tarnaveni area battle(only romanians!!)











details for monument here
http://enciclopediaromaniei.ro/wiki/Monume...%A2rn%C4%83veni

Man! It is dessgusting not to know what others have done for us....with supreme sacrifice!

Maybe an abandoned meteorological station.