** Found the camera and took a few picts. They aren't the best, but I hope to get a better camera for xmas. So at least I have some pictures to show now 
Enjoy!
Anyway, we went to the ammo/supply depot in Kirkel. We did some recon up the road and found more dugouts for AA guns or troops. Didn't find too much stuff though. I did dig up a 50 cal brass, and the tip was about 2 inches from it. It looks like it was a misfire.. the bullet was "shot" but I don't think it left the barrel.. so it was ejected. I think this is also called a squib load. So, it wasn't from a plane or anything like that.
We went back to our orig hole where the grenades were found. There are tons of things in there still! I was digging in the corner of the dugout for over an hour, and I kept finding things. Mostly 30 cal bullets, some fraggy bits, but the coolest thing was what I think is a shot 75mm anti tank warhead. Its completely solid, and prob weighs around 10 lbs. We also found a LOT of carved sandstone.. the GIs that were hanging out in the dugout were pretty bored it seems. I took some pieces home and hopefully i can take pictures so you know what im talking about. All this stuff we have been finding around this particual dugout was buried on purpose..and I hope to go dig there some more. IT was REALLY COLD, and even started to snow a bit while we were there.
We also found some stuff laying on the surface.. a bakelite motar nose cone (it was prob a dud, bec it looks to have hit the ground, busted off the base, and didn't set off the little charge), lots of shrapnel, and I found what looks like a button, but has threads on the side. I thought it was a button at first, bec it has 4 holes in it, but I think its more of a plug to something. We left this nice piece of a bomb fragment on a tree stump, and someone TOOK it
There is a lot of logging going on in the area, so one of them prob took it. We also saw many holes out there, so someone else has been digging there before.
We headed out a differen't way than we came in, so do more recon. We found A TON of dugouts that we didn't know existed.. and these were used for TANKS. I figured that the americans prob pulled their tanks in there to guard the road. The 63 Inf Div was camped out here after the breaking through the Sigfried line. I am still doing research on what happened in the area.
We ended up going to this little town by Saarbruken called Dudeweiler. There was an antique store that sold militaria that bammer and I wanted to find. On the way, we found an INTACT pillbox still overlooking the road (you could even see the sliding metal plates and machine gun ports).. and other fighting positions that still littered the town. The shop was cool and this guy had a whole back room FULL of stuff, im talking about a militaria collectors dream. We got to talking to him, and told us he dug at Kirkel before, and many other places. I ended up buying a large Lutfwaffe spoon for 30 bucks. But we hope to get more info out of him. He seemed more than willing to tell us whatever we wanted
Sorry to ramble I hope to find the camera! I hope everyone has a happy holiday !!!
Here is one of the 3 20mm AA rounds I found after i cleaned it up a bit
We went out and picked up the rest of the potato masher grenade. The stick used to be between the middle piece and the piece to the left. They are much larger in person.
Here are some various pieces of things we picked up.. shrapnel, bullets, carved sand stone, and who knows what. Lots of stuff to clean
Some nicer looking bullets/ 50 cal round
Here is the solid anti tank warhead I found. Should come out nice after electrolysis.. it weighs about 10 lbs. Not sure if it is german or american yet.
Sorry for the bad pict. Its the bakelite nose cone from a motar round.. found on the surface
Another pict of nose cone with broken piece taken out.. the screws/works on the inside are visible
Here is the spoon I got in that town. You can see the luftwaffe symbol at the bottom. Its quite large and is prob a serving spoon
Enjoy!Anyway, we went to the ammo/supply depot in Kirkel. We did some recon up the road and found more dugouts for AA guns or troops. Didn't find too much stuff though. I did dig up a 50 cal brass, and the tip was about 2 inches from it. It looks like it was a misfire.. the bullet was "shot" but I don't think it left the barrel.. so it was ejected. I think this is also called a squib load. So, it wasn't from a plane or anything like that.
We went back to our orig hole where the grenades were found. There are tons of things in there still! I was digging in the corner of the dugout for over an hour, and I kept finding things. Mostly 30 cal bullets, some fraggy bits, but the coolest thing was what I think is a shot 75mm anti tank warhead. Its completely solid, and prob weighs around 10 lbs. We also found a LOT of carved sandstone.. the GIs that were hanging out in the dugout were pretty bored it seems. I took some pieces home and hopefully i can take pictures so you know what im talking about. All this stuff we have been finding around this particual dugout was buried on purpose..and I hope to go dig there some more. IT was REALLY COLD, and even started to snow a bit while we were there.
We also found some stuff laying on the surface.. a bakelite motar nose cone (it was prob a dud, bec it looks to have hit the ground, busted off the base, and didn't set off the little charge), lots of shrapnel, and I found what looks like a button, but has threads on the side. I thought it was a button at first, bec it has 4 holes in it, but I think its more of a plug to something. We left this nice piece of a bomb fragment on a tree stump, and someone TOOK it
There is a lot of logging going on in the area, so one of them prob took it. We also saw many holes out there, so someone else has been digging there before.We headed out a differen't way than we came in, so do more recon. We found A TON of dugouts that we didn't know existed.. and these were used for TANKS. I figured that the americans prob pulled their tanks in there to guard the road. The 63 Inf Div was camped out here after the breaking through the Sigfried line. I am still doing research on what happened in the area.
We ended up going to this little town by Saarbruken called Dudeweiler. There was an antique store that sold militaria that bammer and I wanted to find. On the way, we found an INTACT pillbox still overlooking the road (you could even see the sliding metal plates and machine gun ports).. and other fighting positions that still littered the town. The shop was cool and this guy had a whole back room FULL of stuff, im talking about a militaria collectors dream. We got to talking to him, and told us he dug at Kirkel before, and many other places. I ended up buying a large Lutfwaffe spoon for 30 bucks. But we hope to get more info out of him. He seemed more than willing to tell us whatever we wanted
Sorry to ramble
I hope to find the camera! I hope everyone has a happy holiday !!! Here is one of the 3 20mm AA rounds I found after i cleaned it up a bit
We went out and picked up the rest of the potato masher grenade. The stick used to be between the middle piece and the piece to the left. They are much larger in person.
Here are some various pieces of things we picked up.. shrapnel, bullets, carved sand stone, and who knows what. Lots of stuff to clean
Some nicer looking bullets/ 50 cal round
Here is the solid anti tank warhead I found. Should come out nice after electrolysis.. it weighs about 10 lbs. Not sure if it is german or american yet.
Sorry for the bad pict. Its the bakelite nose cone from a motar round.. found on the surface
Another pict of nose cone with broken piece taken out.. the screws/works on the inside are visible
Here is the spoon I got in that town. You can see the luftwaffe symbol at the bottom. Its quite large and is prob a serving spoon
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