Small Scale Military Headquarters

Where? In Jurata on the Hel Peninsula, Poland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hel_Peninsula

What? The Jagtpanzer 38(t) http://www.odkrywca-online.pl/galerie.p ... c937513247

Still there is the projectile in the barrel...

Man, I love stuff like this. I wonder how recent it is? This is one hell of catch!

Hello Wieslaw,
My Polish is a little rusty. Can you tell us the story of this Hetzer. It should be a good one.

pickelhaube wrote:Hello Wieslaw,
My Polish is a little rusty. Can you tell us the story of this Hetzer. It should be a good one.

Agree, very cool.. Do tell!

very cool - I wonder if that sat on the beach for a long time with kids playing on it etc until finally covered with sand, surf and forgotten.

STUKA wrote:very cool - I wonder if that sat on the beach for a long time with kids playing on it etc until finally covered with sand, surf and forgotten.

Stuka, you're right, it was so really. On that Polish forum you can read relations of people, who in 70's and 80's swam there and played in the Hetzer. The vehicle had no roof, that's why they didn't know what type of SP gun was that (Marder?, Wespe?, Su-76?).

Next, the "projectile" in the barrel turned out to be a ramrod.

Unfortunately, I didn't find anything about the vehicle's history or it's unit. The only is the suggestion this Hether could be used as a pier during the evacuation of German civilians in 1945.

Here you can watch two more photo galleries:
http://www.odkrywca.pl/galerie.php?nazwa=434
http://www.odkrywca.pl/galerie.php?nazwa=435
and a little movie:
http://video.google.pl/videoplay?docid= ... 3186&hl=pl

Thanks Wies

Did they say what they were going to do with it?

grunt1 wrote:Did they say what they were going to do with it?

Sorry, no concrete news. Next days the Hetzer will be transported to Gdansk to the restoration. And then? Probably some museum, for sure in Poland...

Hello Wieslaw,
Nobody will want to look at that rusty old thing. Tell them to send it to New Orleans . I will be glad to take it off of there hands
Matthew

pickelhaube wrote:Hello Wieslaw,
Nobody will want to look at that rusty old thing. Tell them to send it to New Orleans . I will be glad to take it off of there hands
Matthew

Kidding aside I would love to have this even in this state.

pickelhaube wrote:... even in this state.

Matthew,

I understand you want to emigrate to Poland (= this state...) and have a possibility to be an owner of this Hetzer! Great news! Welcome to Poland!

This is a heckuvalot more interestin' than hearing about another T-34 being found in a bog and/or freshwater lake/river/what-not. Considering how few of these were actually made, I would think it'd be a very rare find! At least, original builds - I know there are plenty of post-war builds around thanks to the Swiss

Wieslaw wrote:

pickelhaube wrote:... even in this state.

Matthew,

I understand you want to emigrate to Poland (= this state...) and have a possibility to be an owner of this Hetzer! Great news! Welcome to Poland!

Ahhh Poland the mother land, along with Germany and England......

Jurata on the Hel Peninsula where the Hetzer was found, is the same place where the Presidents of US and Poland meet today.

Do you think that they will let George W. take it home? Georg W. Bush that is. They still need to give us a little aid here in the NOLA area so this would be the next best thing. For me any way

Matthew,

yes, I heard that the Poland's president Kaczynski wanted to give the Hetzer to US president as an aid for New Orleans. However, George W. Bush didn't accept it and said there is a lot of vehicles taken from the water, there. So, I only saw on TV your president receiving a sabre from our president. No, not the F-86 Sabre.

Yeah, yeah, yeah we always get the shaft or point down here. Nobody cares