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What would you have saved if you could?

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  1. ULITHI

    ULITHI Ace

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    Of course, the first answer would be the innocent lives lost.
    However, what else would you have saved to put in a museum? Are there any tanks, planes, ships, vehicles, weapons, or documents that are no longer around that you would like to have seen saved?
    Just off the top of my head, I would like to have saved:
    USS Enterprise CV-6
    HMS Rodney
    A Japanese I 400 class submarine
    Any Japanese battleship that survived (like Nagato)
    Marc Mitscher’s personal papers
     
  2. Mark4

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    King tiger, Kv-2/85,T-34/85/Panther,and a jagtiger

    Doolittles B-25?

    Hitlers staff car

    Rommel's dog tags

    HMS Hood and the Bismark

    Admiral Yamamoto's sword

    Admin Edit: Seven posts to answer one question? This does not include the ridiculous one I removed. I've merged them all into one post. Next time they get dumped.
     
  3. formerjughead

    formerjughead The Cooler King

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    I think there are exmples of all of those in museums.
    If you search:
    Aberdeen Armor Museum
    Military Vehicle Technology Foundation

    There are also a couple of large Armor museums in the former Soviet Union that have examples on display as well.
     
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    USS Enterprise CV-6
    USS Saratoga CV-3
    USS Washington
    USS California
    USS Heermann
    IJN Haruna
    KM Tirpitz (Hell of a salvage job though)
     
  5. Martin Bull

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    Guy Gibson's Dams Raid Lancaster, ED932 'G'.

    Scrapped on 29th July, 1947 - a National disgrace. :mad:
     
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    Splattered all over a mountain in China. Nothing to save. However, it would have been great to get York's B-25B back from the Russians.
     
  7. ULITHI

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    How about Robert Capa's D-Day photos that were lost due to bad handling in the dark room? Only like 10 photos survived I think.
     
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    Capa's photos would have been wonderful.

    Added to my list:

    HMS King George V
    HMS Victorious
    HMS Norfolk
     
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    I'm going to add HMS Warspite to the list, having a service that spanned from the Battle of Jutland to D-Day.
     
  10. Slipdigit

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    Enough. Those items are not even remotely salvagable.
     
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    Yes it is the sword is on a plane on some island some where.
     
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    Violette szabo.................................
     
  13. Mark4

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    Plus you can remake both ships with whats left of them.............

    Neapoleans horse

    Hannibal's sword
     
  14. ULITHI

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    I'll add a plane myself: The Akutan/ Koga Zero fighter - The first crashed zero that was found intact to take back to the U.S. to study and make flyable again.

    They found it on the Alaskan Island of Akutan after it raided Dutch Harbor, its pilot (Koga) dead from a broken neck. It was destroyed in a training accident during the end of the war.
     
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    Wait, what was that about Yamamoto's sword? I thought that was recovered when the Japanese recovered his body? hmmmm...
     
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    Ive always wished more axis aircraft being set aside for museums and gate guards.
     
  17. freebird

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    It should be on the top of the list.... :cool:

    Or Illustrious, for launching the first major carrier strike on "Taranto".


    As for Aircraft-

    Whirlwind
    DeHavilland Hornet
    Whit V
    Hampden (a re-construction underway, but non-flyable)
     
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    The bulk of German Military, social, technical, & political, records.
    Paperwork's worth much more than artifacts in the long run.

    (Though the Grosstraktors that stood at Wunsdorf barracks would've looked rather nice at Bovington.)

    ~A
     
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    However generic, Rommel would be one of mine. I think that he would have served as a great figurehead for the the new German army as a symbol of national pride and could have also been a great motivational speaker as he was more or less a national hero.
     
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    What would you be looking for VP?
     

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