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Old 05-10-12, 15:56
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Default Dumped Jeeps & Bantams

This'll break your heart. Hundreds and hundreds of pieces of equipment dumped on Okinawa at the end of WWII

http://www.vintagemilitarytrucks.com...rd_Okinawa.htm

How about this tantalising discovery some years ago.

http://www.ozatwar.com/bunkers/dandenongstunnels.htm

My father spoke about vehicles, weapons and equipment that he helped load into tunnels (or caves, I forget which) cut into a hill in New Guinea. I should have written down the directions, or more correctly, location from some reference points, but didn't have the same interest I do now. A moot point anyway, as it turns out. A volcanic eruption in the 1990s changed the entire landscape, burying everything around under feet of ash & rock.

Still, lots of other finds still exist and are easily accessed.
http://www.pacificghosts.com/news/tunnels/index.html

http://servicesrecommended.com/index...abaul-PNG.html

How's this for a job!
http://www.nzdf.mil.nz/news/media-re...dowrowipng.htm

See this video of a tunnel examination.
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=ovsmB...%3DovsmB-Sz9C4
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