Crates of guns
 

Saw this picture on another forum and thought I needed to share it here.
Marc

Just after Germany surrendered in WW2?
dju

Yes. This is a well known photo taken in post war Germany. There is a website somewhere that that has a number of these surrendered arms photos.

that guys cherry picking all the best ones

Wouldn't you do the same thing? I sure would.

this photo has appeared here before, some time ago, and someone commented that the soldier looked like a young Ralph Shattuck... :D LOL.

thanks for posting it again... its enough to make even us oldtimer drool about the possibilities.

I have picked up photos like these before - from the web, other collectors and ones I have bought on ebay

I used to have a couple of photos I collected of arms left in Vietnam... one photo I recall showed Thompson and M3 SMG's stacked like cordwood, rusting out in the open...

Made me feel like crying just to look at those pictures.

I lost part of my photo archive in a hard disk crash about 10 years ago... those photos were part of them. :(

Hmmmph... one google search and I found them all again:

http://www.armoryblog.com/firearms/gun-graveyard/

Make sure you have a bucket or barf bag handy... these photos will make you sick...

MARC and EDWARD

Thanks for sharing those photos;

JOHN
I agree with you it's painful to see so many handguns left in the open to rust.

I've never seen anything like that really
Not too far from where I live there is a small military vehicles depo with lorries, helicopters and airplanes dismissed by the airforce.

I would keep all of them not just the cherrys :)

Doug, I have an original 8 1/2 x 11" copy of this photo. It is stamped on the back US Army in Norway.