Just looked this up. That thing could throw out 120 50mm rounds per minute! Out to about 750m. Bad news for Infantry approaching that position! When I saw the electrical connections I figured it was electricity that powered it - it was. The handles you see are for manual operation if the power fails - that would be a far lower rate of fire. Most weapons systems, even today, have manual backups in case the powered system fails. The partial ring you found on the floor may have been for quadrant (elevation) readings, as one of the human crew would have had to have a reference for that. The intact deflection ring was an amazing find. Can you imagine the noise in there when firing? I hope they had good hearing protection. I suspect they took key components from the mortar and disabled other things in the bunker and just walked away....and it sat forgotten. And TWO intact bottles! Dang this was a good discovery! Congrats to you and EE!
As an interested viewer, thank you for taking the time to really do the research on this. Creators such as HH and EE count on viewers sometimes who have the resources to help out with technical or background information. I have studied German WW2 equipment for years, and even I have never seen one of these. Thank you.
but look at it practically. with that small roof top "gun port" that mortar would have a very limited field of fire to work with. thus making it very easy to out flank, close with and destroy.
@@abntemplar82 I think it raised up out of the hole aways prior to firing, but you are correct, there would be limits to both deflection and quadrant. Given the tech at the time, the tube would be harder to adjust quickly providing time to the attacking forces to advance and flank the position. AATW
AMAZING!!! The trench in the floor would be a conveyor. They used 7 man crews, 3 operated it, the remaining soldiers in the ammunition room would load magazine sleds and use the conveyor to send them to the crew on the gun for quick loading. The crank on the unit at the end would operate that. Fully stocked the ammo rooms would have just under 4,000 rounds. It was incredibly efficient, and safer than passing rounds by hand, especially with the limited space.
I don't understand how after so many bunker explores, you still explore without decent footwear. Calf high combat boots that are decently water proof don't cost a lot of money. I still wear 20 year old Danner Fort Lewis boots when I explore our local bunkers, always dry feet even in relatively flooded portions. Anyway, amazing explores and fantastic locations, far more and better than anything here. Keep up the good work.
Well we have tried just about anything there is on the market and still get wet it seems. Remember we are out for more then 7-8 hours sometimes in mega wet conditions with grass like 50 cm high and soaking wet fields and terrain. I really would like to find boots that will stand up to such for several weeks at a time... Thanks for comment and for watching.
@@WW2HistoryHunter get some waterproof motorcycle boots. they will be about 10in high, have great ankle support, are lightweight, and grippy. I can step in 9in deep water and not get wet.
Now that HH is the find for the year, the mortar is missing its motors, which would have given the unit the most value. Even the panzer dome was in good shape. Was the pipe in the technical trench about 100mm in diameter? The box with the disk and handle is attached to the pipe. The whole thing is the auto-loading system. I would love to document that further, and it needs to be in a museum. Both of you did a fantastic job on this find.
@@WW2HistoryHunter The R-633 bunker was designed to protect the M19.[1] Fewer than 100 R-633 were built.[2]: 225 Where possible the entire construction was to be buried underground, leaving just the flat armoured opening on the roof to fire through. Access to the bunker was by way of a trench. The automatic feeder for the mortar required a three-phase electricity supply to power the lift, otherwise ammunition had to be passed up. Earlier versions were manually fed using a flywheel. The bunker held 3,944 mortar rounds. A 24 V battery system provided lighting. Bulbs illuminated to show the rate of fire, 40, 60, 80 or 120 round per minute. Each R-633 was built to the standard B strength, with 2 m thick walls and roof. If, as was standard, it was to be completely buried, 1,900 m3 had to be excavated. Each bunker required 845 m3 of concrete, 40 tonnes of steel rebar and 6.3 tonnes of other steel items.[1] The weapon was installed in an armoured dome weighing 39 tonnes.[3] Two armoured turrets were designed:[2]: 350 34P8 Panzerturm für 5cm M19 Maschinengranatwerfer mit Schachtring B strength designed in 1935 49P8 Panzerturm für 5cm M19 Maschinengranatwerfer was A-1 strength designed in 1935 (The 34 and 49 refer to the type of design, the P stands for Panzer or armoured, the 8 is the sum of the last 2 digits of the year (3+5=8)) The R-633 had a crew of 14 men, half working with the mortar, the remainder providing local defence.[4] There is one in Fjell, Norway. complete bunker.
I live in Fort Wayne Indiana that's located in the United States of America and I really love and envy you for being able to see the history of the world. I only wish I could do what you and your son do. Keep up the awesome work. GOD BLESS
Another exciting video and amazing fines . Love seeing these bunkers. Thanks again to you and EE. I wish you sold some of the items you fine would definitely buy.
we will share more later my friend and there will be anew feature from us soon that enables supporters to get some of the items we find. Will share that later. Thanks so much :)
Holy Pancake ! Amazing !! That mortar is still there! Incredible explore. Even the little things like the upright wine bottle. Next trip, a pair of waterproof overboot covers might be a plan ... Thankyou again HH and EE !
Great work, documenting this equipment . As someone who has faced the difficulty of researching the layout of WW2 and WW1 installations for model dioramas, your work has made a difference between success or failure. Really. Something interesting- I have a group of bottles I bought for my collection at an antique store, not knowing what their story was. They were inexpensive so I got them, and I was able to find out they are beer bottles from the Japanese Army during WW2! I figure that they are not common to find, and I'm glad I got them. Cool, huh? Thanks for the great video!
THAT Has to be one of the most fantastik finds EVER ! And you had no idea it was there ! I think maybe the big crank wheel in the room and the shaft in the floor might have been for rotating the whole mortar assembly , and up in the turret was where they would set the angle of fire . But just an amazing find ! Great Job ! 🤓💥
Fantastic find! I’m sure it was demilled, so it couldn’t be put back into action, and just left there for you and EE to find, almost 80 years later. Exciting to find such a rare weapon, still in its original bunker. Thanks for braving the somewhat deep water, to bring us this amazing find.
Now that was an epic find. Thank you for taking one for the team, getting to see such a rare piece. Never heard of them before. The BEST history lesson I've ever had. Good job EE for spotting the turret.
Such a cool find, thanks for sharing with us. I explored fort Totten and it was a lot dirtier, so I'm surprised at how clean this bunker looked. Instantly subbed
What a find , are you still in shock? glad that i was able to contribute a little to support you. What's next you guys had some great finds on this tour . thanks for sharing.
That is an incredible find, looks remarkably intact considering the age and all the water in there. Well worth getting wet feet for! Thanks for sharing this with us.
What an exciting and amazing exploration. Definitely didn’t expect you to find an automated mortar still in the bunker. I love how you both just stumble across forgotten history. It’s amazing the engineering that went into developing the automated mortar. You definitely went above and beyond to show us this great location. Hope you got out of those wet shoes pretty quickly. I wonder what else you will amaze me with.
Totally AWESOME this as Anthony and YOUR great support made that come alive and we thank you for that. I spent 6 more hours in those wet shoes..he he. Thank you my friend :)
I just discovered your channel 👌🏻👍🏻. Amazes me to think about the passage of time and these historic places, whilst my neighbour was 16 at the close of the war. Our world was so fundamentally different within a single lifetime.
I think its a M-19 Maschinengranatwerfer. They are extremely rare. Theres remnants of one in Festungsfront in Oder-Warthe fortress in Międzyrzecz, Poland.
Looking at the shaft in the pit thats underwater i think the wheel would be for rotating the turret in the other room and the angle would be set localy, its the only thing that geared shaft could be for.
That is one amazing find in that bunker, and so much of the motar still there. Thanks for getting your feet wet, but it really was worth the trip. That strange box in the other room, with the technical tunnel to it, that could have been a hand cranked generator, to keep the turrent working, if the mains supply failed, but it really was strange. Well done on another super video, and I wonder what other secrets you have discovered. Stay safe and well my friends
This was incredible. My heart was racing watching you make this unbelievable discovery. I can't imagine how intense this must have been in person. I sincerely hope this mortar bunker is preserved, and maybe one day made available for the general public to visit. Thank you for all your hard work finding and filming these locations. Most of us would never get to see or experience this if it wasn't for you and your family.
Oh my...what a wonderful discovery!!! An automated mortar!!! It was definitely worth wet feet, to get to see this! What were those boys doing, drinking wine on duty??? Awesome, HH and EE!!!❤
Just the most incredible find guys! Eagle eyes lives up to his reputation yet again! I wass blown away by this video. What a rare treat. And what a fabulous way for someone like me , who couldnt climb around in these places but would dearly love to, to see what it would be like to discover and explore such places. THANK YOU for being my eyes and ears . Letting me experience it. Greatly appreciated
The best find ever! Never seen you as excited as you are here. The bits and pieces are amazing. Watching everything you are finding in total amazement! The dates, the increments on the ring. Wow!
Looked like a ww2 radio room to me, the racks are for batteries, the crank handle is a hand driven generator, and the raisable radio mast is in the vertical tunnel with cast metal cap on it (tank turret)
Wow!! Can you imagine how loud that gun was in that small space when it was fired! Awesome finds you and Eagle Eyes found! Thanks for getting your feet wet. :) Stay safe.
The 'machine' on the rear wall, is probably a hand turned generator. Large flywheel, electric boxes close by. If power went out, they could still operate. Great find!
That has to be the most extreme find of a lifetime. Thank you both for your dedication to history and sharing your adventures. If it was for not your hard work I would never have been able to see this lost history. As always " Good Hunting " and God bless.
Well done! Great to see a part of ww2 history, reminds me of when as kids we used to explore Napoleonic forts which are still there today! near where I live in south England.
This is so cool HH and EE! Awesome find and im glad you both got to see it in person. Thank you both for doing what you do! I'm not 100% sure and i'll take a wild guess but the trench and the box with the big wheel on it is the main source of powered drive to the mortar. If power goes out it has the handle to manually crank and like wise on the mortar itself. Thats my thinking anyway. Looking forward to the next one
@@WW2HistoryHunter :) have a great day or night guys im not sure what the time is over there, but down in Melbourne Australia its 4:30am should be well and truely asleep but its one of those nights for me 😆
Really nice to see an H633 bunker for a 5cm M19 Automatic mortar with most of it intact....if rusty! The mysterious object at 28:07 is a flywheel which is connected to the base of the mortar by a driveshaft under the floor. The hole to the top right had a tachometer that indicated the number of shots per minute being fired by the mortar (Up to 100). The armoured observation turret at 2:28 is a type 486P2 which was 120mm thick and weighs 10 tons.
that pipe that ran along the floor to that large looked like a drum, im going to say something silly but hope not could that have been feeding the mortar rounds to the mortar or to the room itself. fantastic find well done eagle eyes.
@@WW2HistoryHunter i enjoy all your discoveries only wish i was still working instead of being a pensioner, as would love to be able to help contribute something towards them.
Definitely a once in a lifetime discovery,that mortar with the firing tube still intact and the dates clearly on the dome.Icing on the cake were those bottle bottoms.Thank you so much HH for bravely wading through that oily water to reveal this gem of a find..Once again EElives up to his name.👍👍
My friend , YOU made this come alive by YOUR fantastic support and we could never have done that without YOUR kindness. This was such a EPIC explore for Eagle eyes and i was so glad he could experience such a rare moment. Thanks my friend and we send our greetings to you and be safe out there :)
What a incredible find. Wish i found something like that, you should take a guided tour at the bunkers we have here in silkeborg. There is a lot of them, 24 to be exact .and 1 have been restored and is used as a museum todag,the bunkers was used as the general headquarters for the german forces in Denmark from 1943 to the end of the war in 1945, and after it was used to house german Refugees...
Man that is so amazing to see. Why didn’t people repurpose these very impressive bunkers? How many have you and your son rediscovered, and how many are there? I would love to see them and all the war stuff still around. The ww1 and 2 artifacts always have interested me. Thank you guys for a great tour. Please keep finding more.
Thanks for getting wet and putting up with the creepy spiders I truly love seeing all that untouched history that I only got to listen to stories from my grandfather I plan on watching a few more videos videos today because it's kinda cold here on the east coast of the United States of America but I really want your October adventure to happen so I want to my part make sure that it can happen
So jealous would love just a piece of that barbed wire or any artifacts. People seem to only grasp our understand history when they see it first hand or touching it. Cannot wait to instruct on WW1 and WW2. Great find and great job keeping history alive.
Hello there History Hunter incredible video especially seeing an old bunker that has not been destroyed by vandalism at all and seeing an old school German wine bottle still intact 👍
Sehr Interessante Analge. In Deutschland in der Wehrtechnischen Studiensammlung steht ein gut erhaltenes Exemplar des M19. Ansonsten klasse Video. Freu mich schon auf das nächste😊 Grüße an den Atlantikwall im Norden vom Westwall im Süden
Amazing I also visited the one in Jersey in the channel islands that was restored.But hard to believe you found that one all these years later, well done
The mystery equipment looked to be connected to the mortar with piping through the floor tunnel. Would the mortar have used compressed air for its operation , if so its probably an air compression system
I AM STILL SHAKING my head!!! OH MY GRAVY!!! What a find, what a find!!! Just amazing that the automated mortar gun is still there!! That was incredible to see. I'm wondering if that "machine" in the ammo storage area had something to do with the adjustment or an adjustment for the mortar itself? What you showed in the ground, kinda looked like "drive" shafts from a vehicle. Just my thoughts. Was so amazed in this indeed. Thanks. OH, loved that you found 2 intact bottles too!!! Way to go on navigating thru that water and up the ladder too! Nice going.
Come to Queensland. Try your luck..somewhere on “The Brisbane Line” there is a flight of spitfires hidden in a bunker. Stolen and hidden by the ground grew after the war.
That was an awesome rare find to find that M19 Mortar. Thank you so much for sharing. I seen you had books behind the artifacts you have there. How does one go about getting a copy in English?
Thanks!
SO very kind of you Larry and it will for sure come in very handy out there :)
It's a 5 cm Machinengranatwerfer M19 - German Automatic Mortar. Extremely rare find, congratulations.
EPIC find and we loved that :)
The Daalek of light mortars.
😢 I wonder if that crank thing was for bailing out water possibly we're bringing in fresh air
@@mikewinings4120I suggest a track system for moving ammunition to the mortar .
There is a restored one at Fort Houmet, Guernsey.
Just looked this up. That thing could throw out 120 50mm rounds per minute! Out to about 750m. Bad news for Infantry approaching that position! When I saw the electrical connections I figured it was electricity that powered it - it was. The handles you see are for manual operation if the power fails - that would be a far lower rate of fire. Most weapons systems, even today, have manual backups in case the powered system fails.
The partial ring you found on the floor may have been for quadrant (elevation) readings, as one of the human crew would have had to have a reference for that. The intact deflection ring was an amazing find. Can you imagine the noise in there when firing? I hope they had good hearing protection. I suspect they took key components from the mortar and disabled other things in the bunker and just walked away....and it sat forgotten.
And TWO intact bottles! Dang this was a good discovery! Congrats to you and EE!
This was really such a EPIC find and we still cant believe it. Thanks so much :)
As an interested viewer, thank you for taking the time to really do the research on this. Creators such as HH and EE count on viewers sometimes who have the resources to help out with technical or background information.
I have studied German WW2 equipment for years, and even I have never seen one of these. Thank you.
but look at it practically. with that small roof top "gun port" that mortar would have a very limited field of fire to work with. thus making it very easy to out flank, close with and destroy.
@@abntemplar82 I think it raised up out of the hole aways prior to firing, but you are correct, there would be limits to both deflection and quadrant. Given the tech at the time, the tube would be harder to adjust quickly providing time to the attacking forces to advance and flank the position. AATW
I saw one in Jersey and they are incredibly rare.
This bunker has to be one of your very best Discoverys on your channel. Amazing work guys.
Thanks 👍 and this is REALLY such a rare thing to find. Thanks so much :)
@@WW2HistoryHunter And just think - Eagle Eyes found it! Good job, both of you!
where at?
restored by the Channel Island Occupation society (Jersey Branch)
No spray paint on the wall means no one knows about the place.
AMAZING!!!
The trench in the floor would be a conveyor. They used 7 man crews, 3 operated it, the remaining soldiers in the ammunition room would load magazine sleds and use the conveyor to send them to the crew on the gun for quick loading. The crank on the unit at the end would operate that. Fully stocked the ammo rooms would have just under 4,000 rounds. It was incredibly efficient, and safer than passing rounds by hand, especially with the limited space.
ok i see and thanks for being here with us :)
The trench in the flor is for the Drive shaft.
The trench in the floor is for the drive shaft
I don't understand how after so many bunker explores, you still explore without decent footwear. Calf high combat boots that are decently water proof don't cost a lot of money. I still wear 20 year old Danner Fort Lewis boots when I explore our local bunkers, always dry feet even in relatively flooded portions. Anyway, amazing explores and fantastic locations, far more and better than anything here. Keep up the good work.
Well we have tried just about anything there is on the market and still get wet it seems. Remember we are out for more then 7-8 hours sometimes in mega wet conditions with grass like 50 cm high and soaking wet fields and terrain. I really would like to find boots that will stand up to such for several weeks at a time... Thanks for comment and for watching.
I would be more concerned about legionella and other issues in the water, without thinking about other hazards.
I am surprised there was not a colony of bats living in there. There are plenty of access points for them and a few places for them to sleep
@@BlackRat-vw9jv 🤣😂necrotizing fasciitis and tetanus were top of kind to me.
@@WW2HistoryHunter get some waterproof motorcycle boots. they will be about 10in high, have great ankle support, are lightweight, and grippy. I can step in 9in deep water and not get wet.
Phenomenal!! So glad you could record it and share with us!
Glad you enjoyed it!
THIS WAS ONE OF THE BEST BUNKER FINDS,THANKS FOR YOUR HARD WORK AND WET FEET!
Thanks so much :)
It really is... great bunker.. great guy.. great video!
Fantastic part two, great job, guys. Thank you for sharing it with us.
There you go and thanks so much :)
Now that HH is the find for the year, the mortar is missing its motors, which would have given the unit the most value. Even the panzer dome was in good shape. Was the pipe in the technical trench about 100mm in diameter? The box with the disk and handle is attached to the pipe. The whole thing is the auto-loading system. I would love to document that further, and it needs to be in a museum. Both of you did a fantastic job on this find.
EPIC location yes. We dont know what dia the pipe was but could be that. Such a interesting place and we loved to share that. Thanks.
@@WW2HistoryHunter The R-633 bunker was designed to protect the M19.[1] Fewer than 100 R-633 were built.[2]: 225 Where possible the entire construction was to be buried underground, leaving just the flat armoured opening on the roof to fire through. Access to the bunker was by way of a trench.
The automatic feeder for the mortar required a three-phase electricity supply to power the lift, otherwise ammunition had to be passed up. Earlier versions were manually fed using a flywheel. The bunker held 3,944 mortar rounds. A 24 V battery system provided lighting. Bulbs illuminated to show the rate of fire, 40, 60, 80 or 120 round per minute.
Each R-633 was built to the standard B strength, with 2 m thick walls and roof. If, as was standard, it was to be completely buried, 1,900 m3 had to be excavated. Each bunker required 845 m3 of concrete, 40 tonnes of steel rebar and 6.3 tonnes of other steel items.[1] The weapon was installed in an armoured dome weighing 39 tonnes.[3]
Two armoured turrets were designed:[2]: 350
34P8 Panzerturm für 5cm M19 Maschinengranatwerfer mit Schachtring B strength designed in 1935
49P8 Panzerturm für 5cm M19 Maschinengranatwerfer was A-1 strength designed in 1935
(The 34 and 49 refer to the type of design, the P stands for Panzer or armoured, the 8 is the sum of the last 2 digits of the year (3+5=8))
The R-633 had a crew of 14 men, half working with the mortar, the remainder providing local defence.[4]
There is one in Fjell, Norway. complete bunker.
I live in Fort Wayne Indiana that's located in the United States of America and I really love and envy you for being able to see the history of the world. I only wish I could do what you and your son do. Keep up the awesome work. GOD BLESS
We appreciate you being here my friend :)
Another exciting video and amazing fines . Love seeing these bunkers. Thanks again to you and EE. I wish you sold some of the items you fine would definitely buy.
we will share more later my friend and there will be anew feature from us soon that enables supporters to get some of the items we find. Will share that later. Thanks so much :)
Wow! You hit the jackpot this time!! Thanks for a fantastic video!
We sure did and we loved it my friend :)
What a find! That was amazing to see! Keep up the great work!
Holy Pancake ! Amazing !! That mortar is still there! Incredible explore. Even the little things like the upright wine bottle. Next trip, a pair of waterproof overboot covers might be a plan ... Thankyou again HH and EE !
What a FANTASTIC explore and we thank YOU for your great support my friend :)
Honoured to be there with you both and see what you see.Thankyou !
Great work, documenting this equipment . As someone who has faced the difficulty of researching the layout of WW2 and WW1 installations for model dioramas, your work has made a difference between success or failure. Really.
Something interesting- I have a group of bottles I bought for my collection at an antique store, not knowing what their story was. They were inexpensive so I got them, and I was able to find out they are beer bottles from the Japanese Army during WW2!
I figure that they are not common to find, and I'm glad I got them. Cool, huh?
Thanks for the great video!
Cool my friend and we really appreciate you being here with us :)
Fantastic video, guys. What a find. Stay safe. That ladder was a brave climb.
It was a EPIC explore my friend and we loved it :)
THAT Has to be one of the most fantastik finds EVER ! And you had no idea it was there ! I think maybe the big crank wheel in the room and the shaft in the floor might have been for rotating the whole mortar assembly , and up in the turret was where they would set the angle of fire . But just an amazing find ! Great Job ! 🤓💥
Such FANTASTIC place my friend and YOU helped us to go there :) Thanks and we are praying for the outcome of the next days. Thanks my friend :)
Fantastic find! I’m sure it was demilled, so it couldn’t be put back into action, and just left there for you and EE to find, almost 80 years later. Exciting to find such a rare weapon, still in its original bunker. Thanks for braving the somewhat deep water, to bring us this amazing find.
This is just EPIC i think and so glad we could find that. Thanks so much and greetings from us
Now that was an epic find. Thank you for taking one for the team, getting to see such a rare piece. Never heard of them before. The BEST history lesson I've ever had. Good job EE for spotting the turret.
Thank YOU my friend. YOU made this possible by your kind support and we appreciate that :)
big support!
Simply awesome, i love this! Many thanks for bringing this to us.
Appreciated and greetings from us :)
Absolutely amazing find! Grats 🎉
Wow, just wow. Thank you for taking me to see this, awesome.
Thank YOU for helping this come alive my friend :)
Such a cool find, thanks for sharing with us. I explored fort Totten and it was a lot dirtier, so I'm surprised at how clean this bunker looked. Instantly subbed
Appreciated my friend and WELCOME to us :)
What a find , are you still in shock? glad that i was able to contribute a little to support you. What's next you guys had some great finds on this tour . thanks for sharing.
We appreciate your kind support that made this happen. Thanks so much and greetings from us :)
Cover that hole! What an awesome find, thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
That's an awesome discovery! Thanks for taking us along 👍
Glad you enjoyed it
That is an incredible find, looks remarkably intact considering the age and all the water in there. Well worth getting wet feet for! Thanks for sharing this with us.
yes such a FANTASTIC place and YOU helped us to go there and share that.Thanks my friend :)
the excitement of " i need to go up there" haha love it guys
Thanks for watching :)
Helt otroligt vilken plats,tack för erat arbete❤
Totally so my friend and we do appreciate you very much. Be safe out there and keep smiling :)
What an exciting and amazing exploration. Definitely didn’t expect you to find an automated mortar still in the bunker. I love how you both just stumble across forgotten history. It’s amazing the engineering that went into developing the automated mortar. You definitely went above and beyond to show us this great location. Hope you got out of those wet shoes pretty quickly. I wonder what else you will amaze me with.
Totally AWESOME this as Anthony and YOUR great support made that come alive and we thank you for that. I spent 6 more hours in those wet shoes..he he. Thank you my friend :)
I just discovered your channel 👌🏻👍🏻. Amazes me to think about the passage of time and these historic places, whilst my neighbour was 16 at the close of the war. Our world was so fundamentally different within a single lifetime.
Indeed so and so important to share history together. Thanks so much for being here :)
Loved this one. Your excitement was so fun to watch. Thanks for making these.
Appreciated and greetings from us :)
Its insane to see a bunker that aint stripped down
This is a FANTASTIC bunker to see and experience :)
@@WW2HistoryHunter Where im from (Denmark), Most of the bunkers are fully stripped out.
Great Discovery! ..You Certainly find some interesting places!👍😆
Thanks 👍
What a find! And the cherry on top; you shared the experience with Eagle-Eye!
We did share it together and with the rest of the world as well. Thanks :)
@@WW2HistoryHunter Thank you! I'll save tonight for another of your videos.
Nice find. I spent 8 years on Okinawa, Japan and there were several neat sites there. Thanks for posting this.
Thanks for sharing and for watching.
This was an epic discovery, and now I will research the automated mortar. This is the first time I have ever heard of this device or weapon.
Such a great thing and we loved to find and share that with you my friend :)
I think its a M-19 Maschinengranatwerfer. They are extremely rare. Theres remnants of one in Festungsfront in Oder-Warthe fortress in Międzyrzecz, Poland.
Looking at the shaft in the pit thats underwater i think the wheel would be for rotating the turret in the other room and the angle would be set localy, its the only thing that geared shaft could be for.
Could very well be and thanks for comment and for watching :)
One of your best finds to date. Thanks for sharing with us!
You bet and we appreciate you being here :)
That is one amazing find in that bunker, and so much of the motar still there. Thanks for getting your feet wet, but it really was worth the trip. That strange box in the other room, with the technical tunnel to it, that could have been a hand cranked generator, to keep the turrent working, if the mains supply failed, but it really was strange. Well done on another super video, and I wonder what other secrets you have discovered. Stay safe and well my friends
Truly a EPIC discovery my friend and we loved it. That thing in that room was such a mystery for us. Thanks so much and more to come :)
This was incredible. My heart was racing watching you make this unbelievable discovery. I can't imagine how intense this must have been in person. I sincerely hope this mortar bunker is preserved, and maybe one day made available for the general public to visit. Thank you for all your hard work finding and filming these locations. Most of us would never get to see or experience this if it wasn't for you and your family.
Thanks for watching and greetings from us :)
Oh my...what a wonderful discovery!!! An automated mortar!!! It was definitely worth wet feet, to get to see this! What were those boys doing, drinking wine on duty??? Awesome, HH and EE!!!❤
It was really such a fantastic place to see Cynthia and we appreciate your FANTASTIC support that made this come alive. THANK YOU for that :)
A lot of the bunkers had old wine bottles filled with drinking water in case of a siege
I told you once before, anyway bloody brilliant effort thank you both cheers
Appreciated my friend :)
That was the most fantastic finds you have ever showed us. And you even gave it a Holy Madonna!!
Just the most incredible find guys! Eagle eyes lives up to his reputation yet again!
I wass blown away by this video. What a rare treat.
And what a fabulous way for someone like me , who couldnt climb around in these places but would dearly love to, to see what it would be like to discover and explore such places.
THANK YOU for being my eyes and ears . Letting me experience it.
Greatly appreciated
We greatly appreciate your kind words and thanks for being here with us. We send our greetings and be safe out there :)
This is such an epic find, congratulations! :)
Thanks so much!
That was some wonderful find you two.
We really loved that my friend :)
Absolutely incredible find! Thank you for letting us come along
You being here is so appreciated my friend :)
The best find ever! Never seen you as excited as you are here. The bits and pieces are amazing. Watching everything you are finding in total amazement! The dates, the increments on the ring. Wow!
Such a great place and YOU made that come alive my friend by YOUR great support :)
Awesome video keep up the great work 🙂☕👍
Appreciated and greetings from us :)
Looked like a ww2 radio room to me, the racks are for batteries, the crank handle is a hand driven generator, and the raisable radio mast is in the vertical tunnel with cast metal cap on it (tank turret)
Thanks for comment and for watching.
Wow!! Can you imagine how loud that gun was in that small space when it was fired! Awesome finds you and Eagle Eyes found! Thanks for getting your feet wet. :) Stay safe.
Thanks for watching :)
you should carry 2 thick industrial plastic rubble sacks with you, when you get to the flooded areas you can put a bag on each foot to stay dry.
ok could be a great idea and thanks for watching :)
The 'machine' on the rear wall, is probably a hand turned generator. Large flywheel, electric boxes close by. If power went out, they could still operate.
Great find!
I see and thanks for being here :)
Wow, what an interesting video! Nice work!
That has to be the most extreme find of a lifetime. Thank you both for your dedication to history and sharing your adventures. If it was for not your hard work I would never have been able to see this lost history. As always " Good Hunting " and God bless.
Well done! Great to see a part of ww2 history, reminds me of when as kids we used to explore Napoleonic forts which are still there today! near where I live in south England.
great vid. congrats on your find
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Amazing video guys! Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
Incredible find ! You guys rule. EE almost got a tank :) Great video guy's
Such a great discovery and thanks so much Dave for your kind support :)
This is so cool HH and EE! Awesome find and im glad you both got to see it in person. Thank you both for doing what you do!
I'm not 100% sure and i'll take a wild guess but the trench and the box with the big wheel on it is the main source of powered drive to the mortar. If power goes out it has the handle to manually crank and like wise on the mortar itself. Thats my thinking anyway.
Looking forward to the next one
Could be that actually , we really dont know. Thanks so much my friend and greetings from us :)
@@WW2HistoryHunter :) have a great day or night guys im not sure what the time is over there, but down in Melbourne Australia its 4:30am should be well and truely asleep but its one of those nights for me 😆
Really nice to see an H633 bunker for a 5cm M19 Automatic mortar with most of it intact....if rusty! The mysterious object at 28:07 is a flywheel which is connected to the base of the mortar by a driveshaft under the floor. The hole to the top right had a tachometer that indicated the number of shots per minute being fired by the mortar (Up to 100). The armoured observation turret at 2:28 is a type 486P2 which was 120mm thick and weighs 10 tons.
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that pipe that ran along the floor to that large looked like a drum, im going to say something silly but hope not could that have been feeding the mortar rounds to the mortar or to the room itself. fantastic find well done eagle eyes.
Could be. Thanks for being here :)
@@WW2HistoryHunter i enjoy all your discoveries only wish i was still working instead of being a pensioner, as would love to be able to help contribute something towards them.
The pipe is part of the ventilation system.
Definitely a once in a lifetime discovery,that mortar with the firing tube still intact and the dates clearly on the dome.Icing on the cake were those bottle bottoms.Thank you so much HH for bravely wading through that oily water to reveal this gem of a find..Once again EElives up to his name.👍👍
My friend , YOU made this come alive by YOUR fantastic support and we could never have done that without YOUR kindness. This was such a EPIC explore for Eagle eyes and i was so glad he could experience such a rare moment. Thanks my friend and we send our greetings to you and be safe out there :)
Great find , you and eagle eyes are the best.
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What a incredible find. Wish i found something like that, you should take a guided tour at the bunkers we have here in silkeborg. There is a lot of them, 24 to be exact .and 1 have been restored and is used as a museum todag,the bunkers was used as the general headquarters for the german forces in Denmark from 1943 to the end of the war in 1945, and after it was used to house german Refugees...
That panzer turret, We have one of those in my town, Its a observation post to communicate with gun batteries in the area,
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Very very cool !Keep it rocking, my friend!
Outstanding !!!
Thanks so much :)
WOW is right!! Even though there was a lot of rust it was still amazing to see. Thank you. :-)
It sure is EPIC my friend and thanks for being here with us :)
Man that is so amazing to see. Why didn’t people repurpose these very impressive bunkers? How many have you and your son rediscovered, and how many are there? I would love to see them and all the war stuff still around. The ww1 and 2 artifacts always have interested me. Thank you guys for a great tour. Please keep finding more.
We have found quite a lot of different bunkers during the years of exploring. Thanks for watching :)
very cool !
Because 90 year old holes in the ground are so useful.
This is what is possible to find with YOUR great support ! Thank YOU for that :)
Thanks for getting wet and putting up with the creepy spiders I truly love seeing all that untouched history that I only got to listen to stories from my grandfather I plan on watching a few more videos videos today because it's kinda cold here on the east coast of the United States of America but I really want your October adventure to happen so I want to my part make sure that it can happen
So appreciated my friend and greetings from us :)
Excellent thanks 🇬🇧
You're welcome!
Reading about these just now I see a little over 100 of this type automatic mortar were produced ! Insane find!
We loved to find that and thanks for watching.
Great find! Congrats!
Thanks!
A very impressive find indeed well done.
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for being here :)
there's some pretty large black widows you got there their venom is very painful and sometimes they can be deadly.
I see and thank from us :)
So jealous would love just a piece of that barbed wire or any artifacts. People seem to only grasp our understand history when they see it first hand or touching it.
Cannot wait to instruct on WW1 and WW2. Great find and great job keeping history alive.
Incredible find.😊
Thanks for being here :)
WOW....
THAT IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love your content. This is one of your best. Thank you.
Glad you enjoy it!
Great job, thanks.
Thanks for watching!
Hello there History Hunter incredible video especially seeing an old bunker that has not been destroyed by vandalism at all and seeing an old school German wine bottle still intact 👍
Great discovery and thanks for watching.
That is an incredible find. Well done!
Thanks so much and greetings from us :)
@@WW2HistoryHunter Thank you!
Wow incredible find!!
We loved to find and share this with you :)
That is so cool!!!!! Thank you
You are so welcome!
Sehr Interessante Analge. In Deutschland in der Wehrtechnischen Studiensammlung steht ein gut erhaltenes Exemplar des M19.
Ansonsten klasse Video. Freu mich schon auf das nächste😊
Grüße an den Atlantikwall im Norden vom Westwall im Süden
Thanks so much for that and greetings from us :)
Amazing explore indeed.
Yes it was!
Amazing I also visited the one in Jersey in the channel islands that was restored.But hard to believe you found that one all these years later, well done
Great find and thanks for watching :)
The mystery equipment looked to be connected to the mortar with piping through the floor tunnel. Would the mortar have used compressed air for its operation , if so its probably an air compression system
Could be we really dont know. Such a FANTASTIC find it was :)
Utterly amazing!
Thank you!
Nice find AM and EE!
I AM STILL SHAKING my head!!! OH MY GRAVY!!! What a find, what a find!!! Just amazing that the automated mortar gun is still there!! That was incredible to see. I'm wondering if that "machine" in the ammo storage area had something to do with the adjustment or an adjustment for the mortar itself? What you showed in the ground, kinda looked like "drive" shafts from a vehicle. Just my thoughts. Was so amazed in this indeed. Thanks. OH, loved that you found 2 intact bottles too!!! Way to go on navigating thru that water and up the ladder too! Nice going.
I know Colleen , what a truly EPIC explore that was. Thanks so much and more to come :)
Come to Queensland. Try your luck..somewhere on “The Brisbane Line” there is a flight of spitfires hidden in a bunker. Stolen and hidden by the ground grew after the war.
Cool and you never know :) Thanks.
Brilliant video 👍👍THANK YOU
Glad you enjoyed it
Good job Eagle Eyes
Appreciated and greetings from us :)
That needs to be restored and become a museum
There is a lot of potential there
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That was an awesome rare find to find that M19 Mortar. Thank you so much for sharing. I seen you had books behind the artifacts you have there. How does one go about getting a copy in English?
Great explore. I have no clue about the books. Thanks for watching.