The Courland Pocket (Latvia) - Metal Detecting Relic Hunting

[VA-REB]

Fantastic!

 

[Digger70pa]

All displayed item are deactivated according to legislation!
German MG42 Machine Gun

Wow

 

[Lett.]

zeemang; Beach Bum; Detectingman; roaddust66;
VA-REB; Digger70pa

Thanks, Thanks, Thanks!

 

[FIB]

Lett, I've been away for a while but your posts always bring me back!!! AMAZING finds!! Regards, Randy

 

[Lett.]

Lett, I've been away for a while but your posts always bring me back!!! AMAZING finds!! Regards, Randy

Thanks, buddy!

 

[Lett.]

Hi everyone!
Please help me Identify cleaning brush.
Do you know from what kind of technique - howitzer is this cleaning brush from?

p.s. In Very, Very Good condition, not used - Still in oil and paper.

38 cm ≈ 14.9606 colla (in)
8 cm ≈ 3.1496 colla (in)
10.5 cm ≈ 4.1338 colla (in)
16 cm ≈ 6.2992 colla (in)
54 cm ≈ 21.2598 colla (in)

 

[Lett.]

I cleaned the brush and the name in Russian showed up
СМАЗОЧНИК - Oiling brush, or something like that - I am not sure how to translate from Russian correctly.
It is meant to be for Guns, Howitzers, self-propelled artillery mounts (SPGs) for A six-inch (152 mm) gun.

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/152-мм_орудие

 

[Lett.]

A six-inch (152 mm) gun

 

[Digger70pa]

Awesome fire power.

 

[davedude]

Thank you very much for posting this Mr. Lett! I have been fascinated with metal detecting WW2 eastern front battlefields. There are some interesting youtube videos on that subject and your posts are equally interesting! Please keep posting your finds.
I had always wanted to metal detect Stalingrad battlefield. Looking at Lativa and the Courland pocket I think would be just as good or better. I did not know the Germans were trapped and cut off there.
I thought it was a German/Russian theater of operations, so how did American artifacts end up there?

 

[JohnBrian]

I cleaned the brush and the name in Russian showed up
СМАЗОЧНИК - Oiling brush, or something like that - I am not sure how to translate from Russian correctly.
It is meant to be for Guns, Howitzers, self-propelled artillery mounts (SPGs) for A six-inch (152 mm) gun.

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/152-мм_орудие

Google translate said it is a "Greaser".

 

[Lett.]

..... so how did American artifacts end up there?

Lend-Lease
US deliveries to the Soviet Union

The Lend-Lease policy, formally titled An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States, (Pub.L. 77–11, H.R. 1776, 55 Stat. 31, enacted March 11, 1941) was a program under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom (and British Commonwealth), Free France, the Republic of China, and later the Soviet Union and other Allied nations with food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and August 1945. This included warships and warplanes, along with other weaponry. It was signed into law on March 11, 1941, and ended in September 1945. In general the aid was free, although some hardware (such as ships) were returned after the war. In return, the U.S. was given leases on army and naval bases in Allied territory during the war. Canada operated a similar smaller program called Mutual Aid.

US deliveries to the Soviet Union
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease#US_deliveries_to_the_Soviet_Union

 

[Lett.]

The U.S., UK and Canada supplied the USSR with some $130 billion worth of supplies during WWII.

 

[Lett.]

The 1st Baltic Front tankers having a rest near the Sherman tank, supplied under Lend-Lease by the US.

 

[Estima8tor]

What an awesome thread. Incredible historic finds from WWII.

I would love to do some hardcore relic hunting like that....

 

[Solong]

Absolutely a great thread. Thanks Lett!!

 

[davedude]

Lend-Lease
US deliveries to the Soviet Union

The Lend-Lease policy, formally titled An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States, (Pub.L. 77–11, H.R. 1776, 55 Stat. 31, enacted March 11, 1941) was a program under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom (and British Commonwealth), Free France, the Republic of China, and later the Soviet Union and other Allied nations with food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and August 1945. This included warships and warplanes, along with other weaponry. It was signed into law on March 11, 1941, and ended in September 1945. In general the aid was free, although some hardware (such as ships) were returned after the war. In return, the U.S. was given leases on army and naval bases in Allied territory during the war. Canada operated a similar smaller program called Mutual Aid.

US deliveries to the Soviet Union
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease#US_deliveries_to_the_Soviet_Union

Yes that makes sense. Thank you Mr. Lett. Please keep posting if you can. How is your weather there now? Can you detect in wintertime there?

 

[Lett.]

What an awesome thread. Incredible historic finds from WWII.

I would love to do some hardcore relic hunting like that....

Thanks

Absolutely a great thread. Thanks Lett!!

Thanks

Yes that makes sense. Thank you Mr. Lett. Please keep posting if you can. How is your weather there now? Can you detect in wintertime there?

Its like half winter here. It snows, it rains, sometimes its sunny here. But the ground is not frozen. We can still do metal detecting.

 

[Lett.]

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