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04-22-2007, 03:42 AM
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Dug up at St Lo two weeks ago
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04-22-2007, 03:54 AM
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the mortar tube still has its protective cap
cleaning time and good surprise!
while removing the cap, my friend saw this: an oily piece of textile, and the haft of the cleaning brush!! Probably rarest than the mortar itself.
And for fun, what the farmer had kept in his old barns...
Hope you enjoy!
Yannick 
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04-22-2007, 05:17 AM
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Thanks for sharing this beautiful experience with us, its always an emotions see that someone nowaday can find a such stuff like these in the ex battlefields!!
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04-22-2007, 07:41 AM
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Yannick,
Thanks for sharing those finds with us! It makes me want to dig out my old trusty metal detector and start heading for St. Lo!! - Bill
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04-22-2007, 08:17 AM
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Amazing discovery! Thanks for sharing the photos with us. I spent 8 days in Normandy last year and was amazed to hear about, and see, so many interesting battlefield recovered items.
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04-22-2007, 09:38 AM
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Very nice indeed. I'd love to find a complete mortar like that. Can't be too many of those short barrelled ones left in existence.
I've still another month to six weeks to wait until the snow has gone and the ground's defrosted before i can get digging again.
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04-23-2007, 03:01 AM
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Thanks for your nice comments. They are greatly appreciated.
My digger friend "Hill 192" has many photos of FJ dug up stuff from St-Lo to put here. We've spent hundred of hours researching on the famous Hill situated East of St-Lo and finding lots of FJ stuff there. This is an old battlefield place we know quite well.
Regards, Yannick
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05-12-2007, 01:38 PM
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Hello,
Wonderful pics! Would love to see you post some more.
Thanks,
mattc
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07-12-2007, 03:48 PM
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Hello to all, just a little up to this old thread as my friend just tried to find this post to put new photos of the mortar after all the cleaning and some try to get it as it could have been in 44... Will come soon The mortar has a manufacture number!
Limestone
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07-13-2007, 06:42 AM
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Excellant work Limestone, can't wait to see the photo's... 
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07-13-2007, 06:48 AM
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i was in normandy 2 weeks ago but didnt find anything like that!argh!compliments!
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07-13-2007, 02:08 PM
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hi all this is the photos of the short mortar found near hill 192 in normandie.
thanks yannick for your coments.
look at the photos  (THE NUMBER OF THE MORTAR IS 316 a )
thanks
hill192
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07-13-2007, 03:02 PM
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no dont tell me u repainted it!!!!i would have left it the way it was or just cleand it a bit!
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07-13-2007, 03:11 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by lelez
no dont tell me u repainted it!!!!i would have left it the way it was or just cleand it a bit!
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agreed! 
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07-13-2007, 04:30 PM
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Oh my goodness!!!
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