A Hetzer from the Baltic Sea

Wieslaw · Post by **Wieslaw** » Tue May 29, 2007 3:33 pm

Where? In Jurata on the Hel Peninsula, Poland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hel_Peninsula

What? The Jagtpanzer 38(t) http://www.odkrywca-online.pl/galerie.p ... c937513247

Still there is the projectile in the barrel...

Flak Happy · Post by **Flak Happy** » Tue May 29, 2007 4:08 pm

Man, I love stuff like this. I wonder how recent it is? This is one hell of catch!

pickelhaube · Post by **pickelhaube** » Tue May 29, 2007 4:24 pm

Hello Wieslaw,
My Polish is a little rusty. Can you tell us the story of this Hetzer. It should be a good one.

grunt1 · Post by **grunt1** » Tue May 29, 2007 6:21 pm

pickelhaube wrote:Hello Wieslaw,
My Polish is a little rusty. Can you tell us the story of this Hetzer. It should be a good one.

Agree, very cool.. Do tell!

STUKA · Post by **STUKA** » Tue May 29, 2007 6:47 pm

very cool - I wonder if that sat on the beach for a long time with kids playing on it etc until finally covered with sand, surf and forgotten.

Wieslaw · Post by **Wieslaw** » Wed May 30, 2007 5:22 am

STUKA wrote:very cool - I wonder if that sat on the beach for a long time with kids playing on it etc until finally covered with sand, surf and forgotten.

Stuka, you're right, it was so really. On that Polish forum you can read relations of people, who in 70's and 80's swam there and played in the Hetzer. The vehicle had no roof, that's why they didn't know what type of SP gun was that (Marder?, Wespe?, Su-76?).

Next, the "projectile" in the barrel turned out to be a ramrod.

Unfortunately, I didn't find anything about the vehicle's history or it's unit. The only is the suggestion this Hether could be used as a pier during the evacuation of German civilians in 1945.

Here you can watch two more photo galleries:
http://www.odkrywca.pl/galerie.php?nazwa=434
http://www.odkrywca.pl/galerie.php?nazwa=435
and a little movie:
http://video.google.pl/videoplay?docid= ... 3186&hl=pl

grunt1 · Post by **grunt1** » Wed May 30, 2007 3:40 pm

Thanks Wies

Did they say what they were going to do with it?

Wieslaw · Post by **Wieslaw** » Thu May 31, 2007 2:37 am

grunt1 wrote:Did they say what they were going to do with it?

Sorry, no concrete news. Next days the Hetzer will be transported to Gdansk to the restoration. And then? Probably some museum, for sure in Poland...

pickelhaube · Post by **pickelhaube** » Thu May 31, 2007 3:20 pm

Hello Wieslaw,
Nobody will want to look at that rusty old thing. Tell them to send it to New Orleans . I will be glad to take it off of there hands

Matthew

Wieslaw · Post by **Wieslaw** » Thu May 31, 2007 5:21 pm

pickelhaube wrote:Hello Wieslaw,
Nobody will want to look at that rusty old thing. Tell them to send it to New Orleans . I will be glad to take it off of there hands
Matthew

pickelhaube · Post by **pickelhaube** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 8:31 pm

Kidding aside I would love to have this even in this state.

Wieslaw · Post by **Wieslaw** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 9:53 am

pickelhaube wrote:... even in this state.

Matthew,

I understand you want to emigrate to Poland (= this state...) and have a possibility to be an owner of this Hetzer! Great news! Welcome to Poland!

ChairmanMilo · Post by **ChairmanMilo** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 10:01 am

This is a heckuvalot more interestin' than hearing about another T-34 being found in a bog and/or freshwater lake/river/what-not. Considering how few of these were actually made, I would think it'd be a very rare find! At least, original builds - I know there are plenty of post-war builds around thanks to the Swiss

VMF115 · Post by **VMF115** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 10:14 am

Wieslaw wrote:
pickelhaube wrote:... even in this state.
Matthew,

I understand you want to emigrate to Poland (= this state...) and have a possibility to be an owner of this Hetzer! Great news! Welcome to Poland!

Ahhh Poland the mother land, along with Germany and England......

Wieslaw · Post by **Wieslaw** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 3:13 am

Jurata on the Hel Peninsula where the Hetzer was found, is the same place where the Presidents of US and Poland meet today.

pickelhaube · Post by **pickelhaube** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 2:53 pm

Do you think that they will let George W. take it home? Georg W. Bush that is.

They still need to give us a little aid here in the NOLA area so this would be the next best thing. For me any way

Wieslaw · Post by **Wieslaw** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 1:07 am

Matthew,

yes, I heard that the Poland's president Kaczynski wanted to give the Hetzer to US president as an aid for New Orleans. However, George W. Bush didn't accept it and said there is a lot of vehicles taken from the water, there. So, I only saw on TV your president receiving a sabre from our president. No, not the F-86 Sabre.

pickelhaube · Post by **pickelhaube** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 7:46 pm

Yeah, yeah, yeah we always get the shaft or point down here. Nobody cares