You and your friend's knowledge on what type or name of the objects are just amazing. I love history and thank you for bringing these items up from the ground. God bless!
The panzerfaust warhead could have been extremely dangerous. Explosives can become more unstable with age. Multi-millions of unexploded shells, mines, etc lay in European battlefields from both world wars.
@@mikkel066h As much as one third of Allied shells fired in WW1 were duds. After the First War it was thought that areas of the Somme, Verdun, and the Ypres Salient would be unusable dead zones forever. Now they are farm, and forest lands. Nature has remarkable ways of regenerating. As long as the war does not escalate into NBC. (Nuclear, chemical, biological) warfare.
@@mikkel066h Surely more reliable though. It’s the duds you want to be worried about. Most shells are in France and Germany from World War 1 as 1 in 3 shells would not detonate. Having the same scale of modern unexploded ordnance from recent wars in Europe is uncommon though. Closest thing I can think of off the top of my mind are the Croatian Landmines.
Great content. The Scottish cap badge is indeed the Kings Own Scottish Borderers. The 1st & 6th Battalions entered Europe via Normandy with the 1st landing on D-Day and the 6th landing about 10days later. Both fought in Caen, River Odon and made there way to the Siegfried Line and crossed the Rhine. The 4th/5th Battalions entered Europe via the Low Countries - Walcharen and then taking part in Op Blackcock and the capture of Bremen. The 7th Battalion went into the area near Arnhem - Oosterbek as part of the air landing brigade. It took 90% casualties. Not sure where you were detecting but hope that helps at least narrow down the battalion. I was a member of that regiment and served operationally wearing that cap badge. XXV. Once a Borderer Always a Borderer.
It might also have been used as a boobytrap with a frag grenade under it and it went of with the helmet next to it. Germans (probably others as well) used to boobytrap their abandoned gear because they knew it would attract enemy soldiers in hunt for souvenirs.
Reminds me of a Story my father told. He was watching from a shot out window in Fraulatern when he noticed a machine gun being pushed around a corner of a house at ground level . He called for some of his comrades to get ready . When a German helmet came up behind the mg about 6 Or 7. 30-06 bullets struck it simultaneously
i stumbled upon one during my holiday ^^ .... craters, trenches everywhere, found out... not far from there is "Fort Aubin" to the west.... the first battle of ww2 ^^.... was pretty special to naturally find that out ^^
Keeping history alive. 1 relic at a time. I’m joining the US Navy next year and hopefully if I’m stationed in Europe, I can metal detect some of these battlefields
I wish you guys would get an overlay on a local Map happening, as much for future Archeologists benefit than anything else...I love watching your explorations but at the same time, unless you record what you find and where...they will be unable to excavate the past and come to the right conclusions. Again, Love yr Work.
I’ve been studying WW2 of 50 years. I grew up with US WW1 and WW2 soldiers. I went into to fly for airlines and was blessed to fly with WW2 instructors and German Luftwaffe pilots from the 1970’s who flew F-4’s and F-104’s. The German Pinots fathers had been WW2 fighter pilots. So many interesting conversations. So very sad the incredible loss of life before off terrible leadership not only in Germany, Japan, Italy, etc but also Russia. Sadly communism has been horrific for both huge parts of the world. I’ve read as much as so can find written by German soldiers from ww2.
@@dangermartin69 actually, we could have done that had Germany just taken out Stalin and acted as liberators to all of Europe. It would have found that the world might have joined in. Can you imagine a world free of communism and socialist domination. But then democracy required an educated and moral population or like the US, the lack of morality drives an evil that destroys a society. Which is better? I guess suicide immorality is better than. Dictatorships hidden inside the guise of claiming the collective hood. Germany could be a driver of democracy and peace today, but it would need to not favor Islamic nations like Iran, Turkey abs the PLO who are destroying Christianity abs secularism in their Islamic tyranny while hating Israel which is trying to build a tiny nation that is democratic and free. Yes it cannot survive with Palestinians whose sole goal is their destruction l
@@bret9741 Europe and the US were helping Stalin, they weren't about to "join in". Germany had become an economic engine which threatened the UK, thus they had to be destroyed. Hitler offered Churchill multiple peace deals after the fall of France, and all were rejected because he was bought and paid for to attack Germany. If the USSR had fallen, no communist revolution in China in 1948, no Korean War and no Vietnam. Just imagine. As far as the middle east, don't care.
@@dangermartin69. The only reason they were helping Stalin was to stop Germany, who had invaded France, Poland, Belgium, and most of Europe. Then, it began exterminating anyone Hitler and his very very evil men deemed “unworthy of life”. The evidence of why the U.S. and a England went to war only after they had not choice and were on defense and loosing from 39-43 shows how close Germany and Japan came to winning. Had Hitler not attacks Stalin, who was in many respects a reluctant Allie of Hitler….. it’s very possible that Germany may have one the war in Europe. I disagree with your analysis, the evidence is to the contrary. Would it have been nice if Hitler had been a good guy? Yep, but he wasn’t.
@@bret9741 France had declared war on them, so there's that. Belgium was letting England use their air space to attack Germany, so of course they were invaded. Poland and Germany had legitimate political issues before the war that couldn't be resolved. Britain and France declared war on Germany after they invaded Poland, yet three weeks later when the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the East, they said nothing. After the war they handed Poland over to Stalin, which I'm sure the Polish people were not happy about. Maybe if the British had come in to mediate the Danzig and corridor dispute between Poland and Germany like Hitler asked, none of this would have happened. But they didn't, they told Poland to provoke Germany instead and they would "have their back". They didn't and Poland ended up under the boot of communism for 50 years.
@@t0xic661 you cannot know. There are many children of soldiers (now old and retired of course) still waiting to learn what happened to their fathers. So do the right thing and work with the institutions to inform the relatives.
9:45 The main reason you typically find a mix of gear from both armies is that when the attacking army captures land used by the defending army it is far from unusual that the attacking army is going to reuse the infrastructure made by the defenders. Such as vehicle service areas.
wew my great grandfather was a fallschirmjäger, i wish we still had stuff from him like the helmet, its such an awesome piece of history and it really reminds you that under that helmet if you like it or not on the wrong side of the war lured in by propaganda there was a human
@Ceo of racism bro you cant be serious. He literally god bless my great grandpa but he fought on the side that was genociding everyone who wasnt "reinrassig" and you are telling me he fought for the good side? There may be no good and bad but genocide idc who commited that is bad, soviet union, bad, communist china, bad, The third reich? Definetly bad.
@Ceo of racism I mean thanks for caring so much about my great grandpa but i dont know what you mean by "enemy of man" even tho im pretty sure that i would be able to guess what you mean
there's a lot of stuff east of HANAU in the woods -bomb craters and bones , found rifle with ammo in it APC track personal carrier with huge hole in it .
I really enjoyed this video and never have been disappointed with any previous videos. I love seeing these artifacts being recovered but especially hearing the stories involving their purpose or what units had them. Though I understand the reason for leaving ammunition, grenades, shells and items like a panzerfaust in place due to possible accidental explosions but can weapons such as rifles, pistols, machine guns and light machine guns like the MG42 be claimed later for personal ownership and display?
It's nice to get a good idea about the events that may have occurred at that location from the artefacts found, the British most likely took that trench system from the Germans. Probably lost many men taking that position too.
Everytime is an emotion!!! I like your discover and I know how do you feel everytime you find a target!!! I search by 20 years in Italian front ww1 relics and always is a surprise!!!
Elite doesn't mean bulletproof. In fact due to the tendency of politicians to overuse 'elite' units in wars they often sustain proportionally higher losses than just regular unglamorous units.
Being born in Dec.1945, at about 5 years in kindergarten school once I got to 11 years old go to my loca Secondary Modern School (failed the 11 Plus exam, so no Grammer school) on the Isle of Wight, there was a lot to explore with gun battery enforcements, radar stations, bombed out buildings in the town etc., I got quite a few Souvenirs from lads at school, like a few Wehrmacht belt buckles, a Polish book with b&w pictures of WWII, (some pictures I have seen on some channels on YT, an empty British hand grenade (inactive), a .38 pistol (no ammo) with bent firing pin. Also on a beach on the south coast, which was used as an exercise beach prior to D-Day, where there was a large amount of live .303 rifle rounds, and spent mortar shells and their craters, and someone found a belt of 20mm shells washed up on the beach. I was given about 2-3 of them, and took the live ammo back home to gently removed the bullets, emptied the cordite out, stuck a lit match to detonator at the bottom of the cartridge, then gently put it back together to make it look 'live' again, and still have a rifle clip of five deactivated bullets on my PC desk now, as a souvenir from those days in the early 1950's. when I was a nipper. It was exciting times when a nipper to explore and find stuff from those days. On he beach where I lived in my Granddads house on the sea front, further along the beach, there was a cluster of 'dragons teeth' laid out across a path that lead up off a pathway from the beach, but now cover over with brambles and stuff. Near these dragons teeth was quite a large slab of concrete, that I was told was a relic from WWI (maybe WWII, can't rightly remember now) for a search light facing the English channel for spotting shipping between the Island and France. Nothing oc course mounted on it since then., only some rusty old bolts. My Uncle used to be at sea in an armed Trawler to patrol the Channel to spot shipping and subs. Ah well, happy days from the 1950's when a kid.....
I see this with mixed feelings. On the one hand, there are a lot of black sheep who do the sounding like robber barons do their raids. Everything that can be plundered is plundered. often the soldiers can no longer be identified afterwards, especially since their bones are also scattered. On the other hand, there are also many detectorists who report their finds and so many fates are clarified as a result. My grandfather died in Belarus near Uschatschi and was buried near Vitebsk. The tomb has been lost to this day because everything has been leveled.
I md and i found a 155m artillery shell unshot aslong as you ain't stupid like kicking it and touching it you should be fine but mines that's another story
My father was a german parachuter in 1945. He was 17 then. They gave him the famous uniform and helmet and also their best rifle. They had no parachutes, no airplanes, no fuel and almost no ammo. You are an elite soldier now, they said, go to kill the enemy for your people and the Fuhrer. My father understood. He wasn‘t stupid and his parents were in opposition to Hitler. Good for me, he didn’t sacrifice himself and survived the war. As we say in Germany „No fascism, no war“
At least you guys respect whatever you find. Some youtubers throws stuff around after they find it, like it's trash. even if they find a soldier or part of one. And you speak English too, keep it up! P.s no matter how many of you find remains from that Era, nobody will ever find it all.
Looks like that helmet had netting on it to put brush in it for camouflage. And it may be burned from heating up food inside of it. Without the netting obviously 🇺🇲
One of its heaviest losses during the war was at the ill-fated Battle of Arnhem in which the 7th Battalion, as part of the 1st Airlanding Brigade of 1st Airborne Division, suffered 90% casualties in September 1944; they defended the perimeter in Oosterbeek against 2nd SS Panzer Corps. Kings Own Scottish Borderers
Keep up with your videos, we all find them very interesting. Keep I’m mind if you do ever come across them you could have the ability to get someone back home no matter what country they are from. Thanks again, good luck on your next adventure.
You whats interesting, is that the guy who did this may still be alive (about 100 years old). WW2 wasn't that far in the past and we are setting up the scene for WW3.
It is very unlikely that that paratrooper helmet was most likely not used unless he was from The 6th paratrooper regiment but that was the only German paratrooper unit in the invasion of Normandy and it was in 1941 so it was probably not.
I got it wrong I was confused with the German 6th regiment that was active in 1944 to 1945 it’s been a long time since I studied the invasion of normandy
I'm an American living in Augsburg Germany. I share the metal detecting hobby. I would love to dig here in Germany. Any chance you would allow a tag along? My detector is in America. Headed there in April, might bring it back with me.
How do you guys get to find locations and get permission to do this? I would love to get the chance to do this one day but never gotten the chance to search a battlefield
@@spiderweb1212 I figured but some of the land can be owned by individuals or government and had certain restrictions. Like in Iceland were they have a law were you can not take anything natural from the land such as plants, fossils, minerals, and lava rocks. So I wonder if there is laws for foreigners going to those battlefields because I am from USA and you really can't do any of that here unless you own the land or have specific places that allow people to do so.
They use the helmet to find where the sniper were hiding. They put the helmet in the open like if it was a soldier showing up the head and wait for the bullet.
there's alot of good condition stuff is soviet battle grounds and i'd reccommend to go there cause it's so much more stuff and they're in good condition.
@@stoeibeertje9100 yeah i heard it was over 7M dead soldiers from soviet and its higher chance to find Them but they are skeletons and the most places in soviet battlegrounds are muddy and at this year/Day they are skeletons but the soviets Took many Bodys on the ground but its more chance to find human remains Than full Body cuz of artillery/airraid and other explosives
You and your friend's knowledge on what type or name of the objects are just amazing. I love history and thank you for bringing these items up from the ground. God bless!
Thanks Terry. We do our best. Cheers!
So much appreciated guys for what you do for everyone, reviving history is so so important for every country that took part in WW 2,much respect 🙏
The panzerfaust warhead could have been extremely dangerous. Explosives can become more unstable with age. Multi-millions of unexploded shells, mines, etc lay in European battlefields from both world wars.
Don't want to know how much will be left in the eastern parts of Ukraine. The amount of shells being fired there are insane.
@@mikkel066h As much as one third of Allied shells fired in WW1 were duds. After the First War it was thought that areas of the Somme, Verdun, and the Ypres Salient would be unusable dead zones forever. Now they are farm, and forest lands. Nature has remarkable ways of regenerating. As long as the war does not escalate into NBC. (Nuclear, chemical, biological) warfare.
@@mikkel066h Surely more reliable though. It’s the duds you want to be worried about. Most shells are in France and Germany from World War 1 as 1 in 3 shells would not detonate. Having the same scale of modern unexploded ordnance from recent wars in Europe is uncommon though. Closest thing I can think of off the top of my mind are the Croatian Landmines.
Time?
@@themanwithallthewrongopini3551 Did you perhaps mean France and Belgium ? None of the battles on the Western Front took place on German soil.
Great content. The Scottish cap badge is indeed the Kings Own Scottish Borderers. The 1st & 6th Battalions entered Europe via Normandy with the 1st landing on D-Day and the 6th landing about 10days later. Both fought in Caen, River Odon and made there way to the Siegfried Line and crossed the Rhine.
The 4th/5th Battalions entered Europe via the Low Countries - Walcharen and then taking part in Op Blackcock and the capture of Bremen.
The 7th Battalion went into the area near Arnhem - Oosterbek as part of the air landing brigade. It took 90% casualties.
Not sure where you were detecting but hope that helps at least narrow down the battalion.
I was a member of that regiment and served operationally wearing that cap badge. XXV. Once a Borderer Always a Borderer.
Thanks so much for the information! Cool stories each and every one of them.
There's a great memoir called 'With the Jocks' about the late war experiences of KOSB.
My dad was a borderer loved seeing the badge
Looks like exit holes on both sides of the helmet, maybe it was just used as target practice
Maybe. Sad that they used a paratrooper helmet for it 😄
Or maybe the guy's head was still in the helmet!
If hit with a 7.62x51 i would say it probably just kept on going all the way through
It might also have been used as a boobytrap with a frag grenade under it and it went of with the helmet next to it. Germans (probably others as well) used to boobytrap their abandoned gear because they knew it would attract enemy soldiers in hunt for souvenirs.
That’s definitely shrapnel damage. The shell probably exploded at his feet.
Reminds me of a Story my father told. He was watching from a shot out window in Fraulatern when he noticed a machine gun being pushed around a corner of a house at ground level . He called for some of his comrades to get ready . When a German helmet came up behind the mg about 6 Or 7. 30-06 bullets struck it simultaneously
I love seeing the trench formations in forests. Always gives me images of an ambush towards the fields! Great video as always Chris👍
That is what we are imagining as well when we are exploring these places. Such a rush!
Absolutely! 👌
i stumbled upon one during my holiday ^^ .... craters, trenches everywhere, found out... not far from there is "Fort Aubin" to the west.... the first battle of ww2 ^^.... was pretty special to naturally find that out ^^
@@rogerelzenga4465 sounds great!
Congrats to your first (?) helmet. Was quite some work and shows very clearly, how bad war is for the people fighting in it.
First Fallschirmjäger helmet! Those are quite rare to find.
Keeping history alive. 1 relic at a time. I’m joining the US Navy next year and hopefully if I’m stationed in Europe, I can metal detect some of these battlefields
Yeah dude watching him is so satisfaying than some other asmr satisfaying video
Also i prefer this instead of metal detecting diamonds
Wait im so dumb... diamond isnt a metal.
Stay away from our treasures, seppo
you are joining the navy 79 years late
thank you for another fantastic video, I have to admire your enthusiasm and commitment to your quest for finding ww2 historic finds
Well what can I say. We do what we love and we love what we do!
I wish you guys would get an overlay on a local Map happening, as much for future Archeologists benefit than anything else...I love watching your explorations but at the same time, unless you record what you find and where...they will be unable to excavate the past and come to the right conclusions. Again, Love yr Work.
No worries. I record everything. No coordinates are lost. Thanks for watching!
I’ve been studying WW2 of 50 years. I grew up with US WW1 and WW2 soldiers. I went into to fly for airlines and was blessed to fly with WW2 instructors and German Luftwaffe pilots from the 1970’s who flew F-4’s and F-104’s. The German Pinots fathers had been WW2 fighter pilots. So many interesting conversations. So very sad the incredible loss of life before off terrible leadership not only in Germany, Japan, Italy, etc but also Russia. Sadly communism has been horrific for both huge parts of the world.
I’ve read as much as so can find written by German soldiers from ww2.
Europe should thank Germany for ripping the guts out of the communist war machine, at great cost.
@@dangermartin69 actually, we could have done that had Germany just taken out Stalin and acted as liberators to all of Europe. It would have found that the world might have joined in. Can you imagine a world free of communism and socialist domination. But then democracy required an educated and moral population or like the US, the lack of morality drives an evil that destroys a society. Which is better? I guess suicide immorality is better than. Dictatorships hidden inside the guise of claiming the collective hood.
Germany could be a driver of democracy and peace today, but it would need to not favor Islamic nations like Iran, Turkey abs the PLO who are destroying Christianity abs secularism in their Islamic tyranny while hating Israel which is trying to build a tiny nation that is democratic and free. Yes it cannot survive with Palestinians whose sole goal is their destruction l
@@bret9741 Europe and the US were helping Stalin, they weren't about to "join in". Germany had become an economic engine which threatened the UK, thus they had to be destroyed. Hitler offered Churchill multiple peace deals after the fall of France, and all were rejected because he was bought and paid for to attack Germany. If the USSR had fallen, no communist revolution in China in 1948, no Korean War and no Vietnam. Just imagine. As far as the middle east, don't care.
@@dangermartin69. The only reason they were helping Stalin was to stop Germany, who had invaded France, Poland, Belgium, and most of Europe. Then, it began exterminating anyone Hitler and his very very evil men deemed “unworthy of life”. The evidence of why the U.S. and a England went to war only after they had not choice and were on defense and loosing from 39-43 shows how close Germany and Japan came to winning. Had Hitler not attacks Stalin, who was in many respects a reluctant Allie of Hitler….. it’s very possible that Germany may have one the war in Europe.
I disagree with your analysis, the evidence is to the contrary.
Would it have been nice if Hitler had been a good guy? Yep, but he wasn’t.
@@bret9741 France had declared war on them, so there's that. Belgium was letting England use their air space to attack Germany, so of course they were invaded. Poland and Germany had legitimate political issues before the war that couldn't be resolved. Britain and France declared war on Germany after they invaded Poland, yet three weeks later when the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the East, they said nothing. After the war they handed Poland over to Stalin, which I'm sure the Polish people were not happy about. Maybe if the British had come in to mediate the Danzig and corridor dispute between Poland and Germany like Hitler asked, none of this would have happened. But they didn't, they told Poland to provoke Germany instead and they would "have their back". They didn't and Poland ended up under the boot of communism for 50 years.
I hope you hand over any bones and dog tags you found to the authorities! Some families still wait for information on the missing.
their family is long dead
@@t0xic661 you cannot know.
There are many children of soldiers (now old and retired of course) still waiting to learn what happened to their fathers.
So do the right thing and work with the institutions to inform the relatives.
Have you ever found an artifact that gave you a bad feeling after you brought it home?
This I would like to know👍
Yeah Like when you have it your like i have a scary 😟 feeling
magic and all that other stupid shit doesn't exist.
Bro they aren’t haunted😂
@@claretormerod8220 i know but like that weird feeling
That was cool to see. My dad served in the kings on Scottish borderers. Not in WW2 but the badge brings back some memories of him. Nice one 🙂
9:45 The main reason you typically find a mix of gear from both armies is that when the attacking army captures land used by the defending army it is far from unusual that the attacking army is going to reuse the infrastructure made by the defenders. Such as vehicle service areas.
Thanks for sharing such videos with us.
That's what you do it for. nice piece of history saved. Well done guys.
Thanks, happy with it!
wew my great grandfather was a fallschirmjäger, i wish we still had stuff from him like the helmet, its such an awesome piece of history and it really reminds you that under that helmet if you like it or not on the wrong side of the war lured in by propaganda there was a human
@Ceo of racism bro you cant be serious. He literally god bless my great grandpa but he fought on the side that was genociding everyone who wasnt "reinrassig" and you are telling me he fought for the good side? There may be no good and bad but genocide idc who commited that is bad, soviet union, bad, communist china, bad, The third reich? Definetly bad.
@Ceo of racism Are you german? Have you ever talked to a jewish person? Have you taken history classes? This doesnt sound like it
@Ceo of racism I mean thanks for caring so much about my great grandpa but i dont know what you mean by "enemy of man" even tho im pretty sure that i would be able to guess what you mean
Based great grandfather
there's a lot of stuff east of HANAU in the woods -bomb craters and bones , found rifle with ammo in it APC track personal carrier with huge hole in it .
Sounds good! You found it while detecting?
I feel so bad for the ones that lost their lives
This adventures are absolutely mind blowing. I wonder how do you guys find these places. Great job, keep it up
Thanks for the support!!
Wow, amazing finds! I really hope to find the paratrooper helmet one day as well. They're hard to find :)
Fantastic job you do guys!!. I envy y’all being able to search for history.
I really really enjoy your videos.
Saludos desde Chile 🇨🇱
Thanks a lot for the support and take care!
Looks promising, nice FJ helmet😍
Didnt expect more helmets😍
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What an amazing hobby a just love the history and the thought what those men went through 👍👍
I really enjoyed this video and never have been disappointed with any previous videos. I love seeing these artifacts being recovered but especially hearing the stories involving their purpose or what units had them. Though I understand the reason for leaving ammunition, grenades, shells and items like a panzerfaust in place due to possible accidental explosions but can weapons such as rifles, pistols, machine guns and light machine guns like the MG42 be claimed later for personal ownership and display?
It's nice to get a good idea about the events that may have occurred at that location from the artefacts found, the British most likely took that trench system from the Germans. Probably lost many men taking that position too.
Great video guys! What an impressive relic of the war!
Would love to see pictures of it cleaned!
Best regards
AC
Great stuff. You must be terrified of running into a land mine or other dangerous unexploded devices.
Mooie video en vondsten
Everytime is an emotion!!! I like your discover and I know how do you feel everytime you find a target!!! I search by 20 years in Italian front ww1 relics and always is a surprise!!!
Elite doesn't mean bulletproof. In fact due to the tendency of politicians to overuse 'elite' units in wars they often sustain proportionally higher losses than just regular unglamorous units.
Awesome finds everyone again!!
another GREAT video, thanx guys for all of it work to preserve history!🇺🇸
Thanks for watching!
So quick question. What do you do with these artefacts that you dig up? From intact Wehrmacht helmets to weapons etc?
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helmets probably take, guns leave
@@Pyotr-j7e I believe they give the guns to the authority
Weapons and ammo are always reported.
@@mdww2battlegrounds do you sell anything? Or do you only collect?
Being born in Dec.1945, at about 5 years in kindergarten school once I got to 11 years old go to my loca Secondary Modern School (failed the 11 Plus exam, so no Grammer school) on the Isle of Wight, there was a lot to explore with gun battery enforcements, radar stations, bombed out buildings in the town etc., I got quite a few Souvenirs from lads at school, like a few Wehrmacht belt buckles, a Polish book with b&w pictures of WWII, (some pictures I have seen on some channels on YT, an empty British hand grenade (inactive), a .38 pistol (no ammo) with bent firing pin. Also on a beach on the south coast, which was used as an exercise beach prior to D-Day, where there was a large amount of live .303 rifle rounds, and spent mortar shells and their craters, and someone found a belt of 20mm shells washed up on the beach. I was given about 2-3 of them, and took the live ammo back home to gently removed the bullets, emptied the cordite out, stuck a lit match to detonator at the bottom of the cartridge, then gently put it back together to make it look 'live' again, and still have a rifle clip of five deactivated bullets on my PC desk now, as a souvenir from those days in the early 1950's. when I was a nipper. It was exciting times when a nipper to explore and find stuff from those days. On he beach where I lived in my Granddads house on the sea front, further along the beach, there was a cluster of 'dragons teeth' laid out across a path that lead up off a pathway from the beach, but now cover over with brambles and stuff. Near these dragons teeth was quite a large slab of concrete, that I was told was a relic from WWI (maybe WWII, can't rightly remember now) for a search light facing the English channel for spotting shipping between the Island and France. Nothing oc course mounted on it since then., only some rusty old bolts. My Uncle used to be at sea in an armed Trawler to patrol the Channel to spot shipping and subs.
Ah well, happy days from the 1950's when a kid.....
I could watch this for hours :) thx again. Its always a little adventure seeing this.
I see this with mixed feelings. On the one hand, there are a lot of black sheep who do the sounding like robber barons do their raids. Everything that can be plundered is plundered. often the soldiers can no longer be identified afterwards, especially since their bones are also scattered. On the other hand, there are also many detectorists who report their finds and so many fates are clarified as a result. My grandfather died in Belarus near Uschatschi and was buried near Vitebsk. The tomb has been lost to this day because everything has been leveled.
"gives the helm more character"....wow...someone died with it ...
Love your video's though....awesome!
yes, as one can see, the helmets definitely "tell" a story, albeit a gruesome one!☹️🇺🇸
Love you bro from India 🇮🇳
Are you never scared of digging into mines and grenades? This always put me off metal detecting, to potentially blow my face off.
or bodies near the helmets and other clothing
I md and i found a 155m artillery shell unshot aslong as you ain't stupid like kicking it and touching it you should be fine but mines that's another story
Awesome finds bro!
My father was a german parachuter in 1945. He was 17 then. They gave him the famous uniform and helmet and also their best rifle. They had no parachutes, no airplanes, no fuel and almost no ammo. You are an elite soldier now, they said, go to kill the enemy for your people and the Fuhrer. My father understood. He wasn‘t stupid and his parents were in opposition to Hitler. Good for me, he didn’t sacrifice himself and survived the war. As we say in Germany „No fascism, no war“
I understand your zeal, and quest for discovery, but I worry for your safety given the unexploded ordinance! I pray for your safety.
Love what your group does! If I’m ever in Germany I would love to join you on one of your journeys!
Very cool artifacts, the stories they could tell.👍♥️🇺🇸
That paratrooper helm looks like it was placed over a grenade. Like to protect himself from one thrown into his hole.
Takes a lot of guts and experience to do this. Personally I'd be afraid to find unexploded ordinance.
You all found very nice finds, congratulations!! 😁
Wow, amazing find!
At least you guys respect whatever you find. Some youtubers throws stuff around after they find it, like it's trash. even if they find a soldier or part of one. And you speak English too, keep it up! P.s no matter how many of you find remains from that Era, nobody will ever find it all.
It's crazy how much all these stuff got buried in only 80 years, dirt gathers up real fast I guess
Epic finds! Thank you!
Looks like that helmet had netting on it to put brush in it for camouflage. And it may be burned from heating up food inside of it. Without the netting obviously 🇺🇲
You are amazing in found WWII guns and bunkers and much more
Lol the calm music settles how the battle went
i'm glad that VAAS from Farcry 3 is doing ww2 metal detecting
My god!!! A panzerfaust probably untouched. Amazing
Just discovered this channel. Definitely subscribing, Keep it up! Crazy interesting
Thanks for the support Ross!!
Just for your information, Sd.kfz means Sonderkraftfahrzeug. (Sorry if I misspelled it) that means 'Special purpose vehicle.'
Magique et magnifique comme toujours 🥇🥇🥇🥇
It might be wise to start checking the soil PH of the areas you get your hits with. . .
Poor guy
Bless his soul
He was doing what he percieved as the right thing
One of its heaviest losses during the war was at the ill-fated Battle of Arnhem in which the 7th Battalion, as part of the 1st Airlanding Brigade of 1st Airborne Division, suffered 90% casualties in September 1944; they defended the perimeter in Oosterbeek against 2nd SS Panzer Corps.
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You do have some truly amazing adventures, in all your travels and what you uncover have you ever come across human remains ?
Thanks. Luckily we have not!
Keep up with your videos, we all find them very interesting. Keep I’m mind if you do ever come across them you could have the ability to get someone back home no matter what country they are from. Thanks again, good luck on your next adventure.
Skeletons take about 20 years to decompose in fertile soil (google search) so I doubt they ever will find remains.
Amazed at your good fortune.
I love ur vids man. Keep it up!
so fantastic to find such history
You whats interesting, is that the guy who did this may still be alive (about 100 years old). WW2 wasn't that far in the past and we are setting up the scene for WW3.
Awesome finds!👍😀
Nice finds. What a place dude
Great job!
Excellent video thank you for sharing your adventures and findings through video.
Thanks for the support!
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It seems like you might need to be careful about unexploded ordnance. That stuff can still blow up.
... and 10 seconds later they talk about the panzerfaust that they left for UXO people.
In Russia they found a smoke Grenade and set it off and it still work. They made stuff to last back in.
Based on those exit holes, you must wonder if that paratrooper got caught in a tree and they shot him from below.
I really love these vids. Nothing better then this!
Thanks for watching again Rikkert!
Well done video. Awesome stuff man.
This is way better than The History Channel.
Love this channel from Italy guys! Just subscribed! Keep up with the great work🇮🇹
Thanks a lot for the support and enjoy the content!
Im from Belgium flanders. Amazing what you guys do!
That helmet looked like the poor soldier got shot by an British gunner RIP the solider that died
It is very unlikely that that paratrooper helmet was most likely not used unless he was from The 6th paratrooper regiment but that was the only German paratrooper unit in the invasion of Normandy and it was in 1941 so it was probably not.
I got it wrong I was confused with the German 6th regiment that was active in 1944 to 1945 it’s been a long time since I studied the invasion of normandy
excellent video
Long live history
I'm an American living in Augsburg Germany. I share the metal detecting hobby. I would love to dig here in Germany. Any chance you would allow a tag along? My detector is in America. Headed there in April, might bring it back with me.
Dit is zoo vett!!
That helmet could have been used to lure enemy fire via germany sniper also.
What?
@@liampett1313to contract sniper fire
How do you guys get to find locations and get permission to do this? I would love to get the chance to do this one day but never gotten the chance to search a battlefield
I dont think you quite need permission tbf - most of Europe was a battlefield during the war
@@spiderweb1212 I figured but some of the land can be owned by individuals or government and had certain restrictions. Like in Iceland were they have a law were you can not take anything natural from the land such as plants, fossils, minerals, and lava rocks. So I wonder if there is laws for foreigners going to those battlefields because I am from USA and you really can't do any of that here unless you own the land or have specific places that allow people to do so.
Good video my friend greetings from Scotland to you in the team.
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Very nice video! Congrats on the cool finds!
Another outstanding video keep up the great work 👍
Lekker die video heerlijk voor het slapen gaan 🤩🤩🤩
Thanks voor het kijken!
They use the helmet to find where the sniper were hiding. They put the helmet in the open like if it was a soldier showing up the head and wait for the bullet.
there's alot of good condition stuff is soviet battle grounds and i'd reccommend to go there cause it's so much more stuff and they're in good condition.
Yes but the chances to find bodies are also a lot bigger. Look up some video's. Its just insand how many body are still underground
@@stoeibeertje9100 yeah i heard it was over 7M dead soldiers from soviet and its higher chance to find Them but they are skeletons and the most places in soviet battlegrounds are muddy and at this year/Day they are skeletons but the soviets Took many Bodys on the ground but its more chance to find human remains Than full Body cuz of artillery/airraid and other explosives
Another great video.