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Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 6:37 pm Post subject: Hetzer recovered in Poland
Today (Hel 26.05.07) Hetzer was recovered from sea in Hel (Poland). Galery www.odkrywca.pl/galeri...?nazwa=432

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Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 12:49 pm Post subject: Re: Hetzer recovered in Poland
www.odkrywca.pl/galeri...?nazwa=433 This looks like the first part of the Hetzer recovery story.

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Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 9:19 pm Post subject: Re: Hetzer recovered in Poland
Any idea how this relic ended up IN THE WATER?

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Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 3:39 am
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Any idea how this relic ended up IN THE WATER?

The Hel peninsula was a German defensive pocket with units encircled there since the fall of Gotenhafen (Gdynia) in March 1945. These units didn't formally surrender until May 10th 1945. The Hetzer was probably ditched in the water on purpose to avoid capture.

The peninsula was also the last foothold of the Polish forces in 1939.

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Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 7:57 pm Post subject: Re: Hetzer recovered in Poland
I once saw a documentary about shipwrecks that said tha the Baltic sea has a low saline content, it may explain why the vehicle seems reasonably intact. _________________ Guy

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Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 12:43 pm Post subject: Re: Hetzer recovered in Poland
more photos this Hetzer www.odkrywca.pl/galeri...w,463.html www.odkrywca.pl/galeri...-,449.html

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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 8:35 am Post subject: Re: Hetzer recovered in Poland
Current photo of the Hetzer odkrywca.pl/forum_pics...hetzer.jpg The renovation works are still going on.

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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 10:39 am Post subject: Re: Hetzer recovered in Poland
I still wonder what could have caused that level of corrosion? _________________ Frustra Nate Vive Devincere

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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 11:51 am Post subject: Re: Hetzer recovered in Poland
- Rikard_Hufschmied I still wonder what could have caused that level of corrosion? Salt water, it was recovered from beach on Baltic Sea.

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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 7:41 am Post subject: Re: Hetzer recovered in Poland
- bialy-r - Rikard_Hufschmied I still wonder what could have caused that level of corrosion? Salt water, it was recovered from beach on Baltic Sea. Yes I know, but the saline content is so low in the Baltic Sea that the level of corrosion doesn't seem normal. Maybe rock salt or some other chemical reaction in the seabed? _________________ Frustra Nate Vive Devincere

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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 9:29 am Post subject: Re: Hetzer recovered in Poland
It was immersed for the thick end of 60 years, so it's not so much a case of being surprised how much corrosion, but how little! Quite a lot of what you put down as corrosion, is also concretion, layers of marine growth. I've seen a cannon pulled out of the sea, with a 2" thick layer, easily knocked off with a hammer, to expose the metal beneath, that started to oxidise (ie rust) immediately.

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