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Originally Posted by Stuart Fedak
On the Yahoo Iltis group there is currently some interest in the exact location of the Iltis boneyard at Camp Julien. Based on the pictures, looks to be in the field that was just in front on the royal palace.
I have looked at some Google maps of the area, and can see the Royal Palace, but the area around is all farm fields. I suspect the images are several years old. No need to have current google earth images.
Cheers!
Stuart
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Although the "Graveyard" was in the south east corner of the camp at the foot of the Queens Palace near the 25m weapons range, the actual final "Crushing" location was not within the confines of what was then Camp Julien. It was approx 1/2km north, north east of the Kings Palace, completed within a fairly large mud walled compound. I suspect that any remains are probably long gone
considering the only parts of old Soviet vehicles that remain "around" are those that are either too heavy to move or are surrounded by old mine fields.
As a side note, when the demilling prior to the crushing was taking place a fire was accidentally started while "draining" the fuel tanks. Damn near took out the "Graveyard" before they were even crushed
Scotty