Dumping unused military surplus in holes and covering it up happened all over the world after the war was over. French and Dutch farmers filled shell holes with almost anything they recovered from the battlefields in their areas so they could more easily level out the fields for planting again with minimal top soil and effort involved. Nobody at the time would have guessed the value today of German WWII helmets and equipment. Talk about a cash crop.
A few years ago a dump was found when a guy in the UK was planning to expand his outdoor patio. They dug end encountered over 1000 Number 69 hand grenade bodies with fuzes.
More recently in Florida there is the school playground where they have been finding live bombs all over the place as well as a complete army tank which was buried.
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David Gordon - MVPA # 15292
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