WWII Militaria

**Alexanderofmacedon** · 07-08-2006, 17:06

Does anyone have any military artifacts from WWI or WWII? What are they? I'm looking to buy some.

**Archayon** · 07-08-2006, 18:19

Try to contact some farmers from around Ypres...
they still find obuses and other bombs between their crops
sometimes old pieces of WWI artefacts

this page on (belgian) Ebay offers a lot you might be interested at ...

Arch

edit: working link (oops)

**Uesugi Kenshin** · 07-09-2006, 00:18

I have a .50 caliber ammo box from WWI or WWII that's filled with various medals, maps, papers and random other little artifacts from an American that went over there. I don't remember which war it is from, or even what exactly is in it because I was given the box quite a while ago. I'm not interested in selling though.

**Avicenna** · 07-09-2006, 15:47

Archayon... the shells found from WWI are, I think, still explosive.

**4th Dimension** · 07-09-2006, 20:11

Yep. Explosiv never truly decays. It can wait for 100 years and then blow up some too curious felow.

**Archayon** · 07-09-2006, 21:20

Originally Posted by Tiberius

Archayon... the shells found from WWI are, I think, still explosive.

indeed ... not all of them... but still ...

some foolish collector's over there keep searching for them,
they stock them in their home ...
and the really dumb ones try to open them...

i was mentioning the bombs ironically though

but still, on the belgian Ebay there are sometimes some very nice pieces of WW artefacts ... i'm thinking of bajonets, helmets, uniform signs, regular use objects, ... from WW I. From WW II, you have the whole nazi stuff of course ... mostly fake.

Sometimes, you can spot a rare air fotograph of the trenches (at least i spotted one once

)

The only artefact i have is a diary from a Belgian Corporal who fought in the trenches, written in a local, almost un-understandable dialect. The Belgian soldiers didn't see so many action as the French or the British soldiers

, but it's a very nice document. And

, i'm not selling that one

Arch

**KrooK** · 07-09-2006, 22:50

I got Hitlerjugend knife.
Knife has been captured during ww2 and later given my father who is history teacher. Looks well and is still sharp.

**The Stranger** · 07-13-2006, 16:42

Originally Posted by Alexanderofmacedon

Does anyone have any military artifacts from WWI or WWII? What are they? I'm looking to buy some.

i could get you a book at our bookstore its very beautiful and it has many cool things bout ww1...but it would cost alot to buy and send it. the books costs around 55 euro and i dunno how much sending would cost. if youre willing to pay for those 2 things...i would do the rest for free...but i dunno if you trust me etcc..