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A WWII German Dornier Do 17 bomber was found in great condition on the coast of Britain, and is planned to be raised and restored. More details: Nazi warplane lying off UK coast is intact - Yahoo! News

Was hoping Ferro or someone else here who works on the HEAVY iron, the diesel-electric locomotives, might know about the history and types of diesel electrics that have been used by the military on the rails since WWII. Info and pictures for all to see, please. Lots of neat rail-riders they...

How many of the WWII and post war high speed tractors are still around in driving condition? I have seen a few M2 Cletracs, and a bunch of the 13-ton M5 HSTs, but I don't ever recall seeing ANY of the 18-ton M4s, 38-ton M6s, the Hellcat-based M39 tractors, or the M8A1/M8E2 series tractors in...

Well, got the test bench, well ok it's the dinner table, set up the other day to test a few PRC-25 and PRC-77 radios that customers wanted me to realign and test out, make sure they were good functioning radios. I have all the tools needed to test these out, but it is a complicated process that...

When I post pictures to the forums, it doesn't matter the size of the pic, the site seems to resize and make it more manageable. However, when I upload a pic in the classifieds, it kicks it back and says the pic is too big. Can we get the resizing feature for the classifieds too, please?

The Jim Thorpe meet in PA is coming up here first weekend of March, was wondering what everyone is bringing there to get rid of. Post your stuff here. I have a pile of canteen covers, e-tool covers and ALICE frames, not setting up there but hoping to find a surplus guy who wants them as a...

I have been collecting pics of the F-4 Phantom for years, they make great wallpapers on the computer. I have been a fan of the Phantoms, or "Spooks" as some called them for years, and wanted to share some pics and information about them since I have so many .jpgs of them on my hard drive. No...

A surplus store near me has a few medical oxygen cylinders, the little small ones with the pin-type valve instead of the standard "water faucet" looking valve. These were oxygen tanks that came from the military in the 1960s and 1970s for use on ambulances. I think they are empty, but they...

I had an idea while I was tinkering around with finding dealers for ALICE pack parts I needed recently - why not have a place on the website with a directory or map of surplus dealers, stores, mail order places, MV dealerships, etc., that could be added to by anyone? It used to be that every...

Saw this on CL, trailer mounted but it sure doesn't look like a MEP-003. Perhaps a gas unit? This looks 1960s era, I'm unfamiliar with gensets that old....

Saw this on CL in my area. Is this a M107 or M149 water tank trailer? surplus water trailer

I have heard that there were a choice few M38 jeeps (not A1s) that had Ramsey-made PTO winches installed at the factory, along with a dual-output T-case to go along with it. Anyone have pics or information about this item?

I came across a bunch of old UNIMOG pics that I had saved on my computer, I wanted to share them in a thread, hoping others would join in. The Unimog is a really neat vehicle, one of the things I think is special about it is because it is so utilitarian, many have been modified for all sorts of...

For those who are into military and ham radio, there is the Virginia Convention coming up, also known as Frostfest. It will be held Saturday Feb. 5th 2011 at the Showplace in Richmond, VA. It is a very big hamfest on the East Coast. For those into green radios, there are a few deals, but...

Need advise on a heavy trailer that would be towed primarily by a M916 tractor. Needs to be heavier than a 5-ton equipment trailer, like a M1061, but not a fifth-wheel hitch trailer. I came up with three possible choices, the older M345 10-ton flatbed, the HEMAT ammo trailer for the HEMTT, or...

The Haspin thread reminded me of this - Is anyone interested in doing another Spring rally at Rausch Creek in PA? We did it early April last year, was wondering what dates for this upcoming one would work for you all.

Not sure if I am getting across what I am looking for. Looking for detailed pics of the wrecker boom that mounts directly to the fifth wheel hitch of tractors like the M818. rickyoday had one a while back, I think I have seen pics of one BKubu had as well, but not closeup.

Anyone have any good pics or diagrams of the exhaust routing for the original M35 or M35A1? I have an M35A2 with a bad exhaust stack, was thinking or re-routing it a-la early deuce and having a truck with the performance of a turbo deuce, but I can repaint into a Vietnam era truck, and it would...

Got a new radio in a roundabout trade this week. This is the transmitter/exciter mate to the R-1051 receiver, which I have one of (I have three more of them for sale), the transmitter is the T-827B. Covers 2-30 MHz, AM/CW/USB/LSB/ISB/FSK, in 100 Hz steps. Weighs about 50 pounds, rack mounted...

Saw the thread on the "WW1 Land Battleship" (which was PB hauling a WW1 British tank, maybe 35 tons or so), and I had to post this: "The Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte was to have been an extremely large tank for use by Nazi Germany during World War II. It was designed in 1942 by Krupp with the...