Russian/German tank recovered from a lake after 62 years

[Gold Buddy]

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[Kelley (Texas)]

From looking at the pictures, that tank is in amazing good condition. I wonder if it has been fully restored yet. Below is a picture of a tank that is on display outside of the VFW building in Schertz, Texas. Old tanks have always fascinated me, and your article made my day! Thank you! Kelley (Texas)

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[Micheal_R]

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[George-CT]

I saw a 1/2 show on it back a year or so ago on Discovery Channel. I guess being used to being around salt water, all I expected was a pile of rust and scale to come out. But infresh, it was in nice shape. And they were able to get the diesel running again. What a piece of history to have and running condition. Bad times for sure, but it was the people using it, not the piece of hardware.

I like old diesels. There is a fella not to far from us who collects all diesel trucks and dozers. He is really into the old Eculid's. Most are chain drive units and beast but they run and pull and push like crazy. He has a big gravel pit, long ago used up but fun place to play with them. Everytime I stop over there, a 1 hr stop turns into a fun day of lets fire them all up......

I'd sure like to fire up that tank.......

Interesting post... Thanks

George-CT

 

[Royal]

Amazing shape but I guess a tank is tough to destroy!

 

[TexasCharley]

The Russian T-37 just may have been the best tank of WW II. The North Koreans were using them in that war & our 2.75" rocket launcher rounds just bounced off. That's the reason the 3.5" launcher was made--it took a much bigger warhead to penetrate a T-37's armor.

It's really surprising it survived as well as it did, but that's probably a very cold fresh-water lake. Cold water inhibits bacterial growth & with no salt to attack the metal it had a better chance of survival. In addition, it was partially buried in peat & that helped preserve it.