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Pzkpfw-e · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jul 21, 2010 Posts: 1202

Interesting rumour, but any truth behind it?
"They need a good shake up over there but i still think we are worse off here in oz.We have our one and only Tiger I still buried at our GMH car factory complex and nobody is doing anything about it.It's driving me nut's and sooner or later i will go down there and plead for them to dig it out before it's too late
Tom"

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Coldsteel · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 61

There is photo evidence of some WWII German and Italian AFVs being present in Australia at some point. Badly shot up Panzer III and M14/41 kind of things.

I've never seen or heard of a Tiger though.

rynoki · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 3:39 am Post subject: Re: Tiger in Australia?

Never heard of that as well. Seems like a myth really. Some german half tracks and armoured cars were transported to Australia during or after the north african campaign, but they were scrapped in the 1950/60s I've read.
Why would they bury 50-60tons of steel when they could have scrapped it, seems untrue.

Michel_Krauss · Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 7:41 pm Post subject: Re: Tiger in Australia?

- rynoki

Why would they bury 50-60tons of steel when they could have scrapped it, seems untrue.

well some part of it could be true

The M4A3E8 Sherman with an M2 plow of the AFF Tank museum has been digged up in the US
It was cheaper to dig a hole and put it in, then bring it to a scrap yard

And that was around 1960

Cutting up a Tiger with the thick armour plating and then transporting it would have taken considerable time and money, so burying could have been cheaper

However it seams rather unlikely that it would be a Tiger

Michel

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