Back to the WWII Pilot Training Site

ANTIQUARIAN · Aug 27, 2013

Got back to the WWII airport training site for about 4 hours yesterday, not a whole lot of finds though.

I did find more 'practice rounds', for some strange reason I love finding these. :laughing7:

The only decent find was the gold-plated locket, which I found in the park area where the fighter jet's mounted. Looks to be pretty old too. :icon_scratch:

Thanks for looking and HH!

Dave

Twinkletoes · Aug 27, 2013

Looks like a great site. Love the locket!

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jtomlinson · Aug 27, 2013

Awesome !!! congrats

vpnavy · Aug 28, 2013

Nice finds (and photograph's) ANTIQUARIAN - thanks for sharing...

ANTIQUARIAN · Aug 28, 2013

Twinkletoes said:
Looks like a great site. Love the locket!

Thanks very much TT! :thumbsup:

jtomlinson said:
Awesome !!! congrats

Thanks for your post J!

vpnavy said:
Nice finds (and photograph's) ANTIQUARIAN - thanks for sharing...

Thank you sir! :icon_salut:

jewelerguy · Aug 28, 2013

looks like there were pictures in the locket (?)

treblehunter · Aug 28, 2013

I hate to sound like an alarmous, but be careful digging around what looks like live rounds of ammo. Probably wouldn't go off even if you did punch that primer hard enough, little different then just putting a gouge in a silver, might be a gouge in your head. (God forbid)

olekyground · Aug 28, 2013

Not too bad man. Least ya didn't get skunked!!

pong12211 · Aug 28, 2013

Nice finds.. Looks like you have a nice spot there... Hope you have some more luck..

John_Deere · Aug 28, 2013

That looks like a decent site! Congrats and HH!!

ANTIQUARIAN · Aug 29, 2013

jewelerguy said:
looks like there were pictures in the locket (?)

I was hoping there would be as well. Although when I looked at it more closely under a 30x jewelers loop there's no shadow of a portrait at all. :icon_scratch:

Thanks for your post JJ,
Dave

treblehunter said:
I hate to sound like an alarmous, but be careful digging around what looks like live rounds of ammo. Probably wouldn't go off even if you did punch that primer hard enough, little different then just putting a gouge in a silver, might be a gouge in your head. (God forbid)

I appreciate your input and your concern in this regard treblehunter! :thumbsup:

Every 'practice ammo round' I've dug so far has had a 'firing pin mark' in the bottom of each bullet, so I'd assume these 'dropped rounds' were all 'duds'. :dontknow:

I'll post a pic of the base of the bullets at the bottom of this post.

Thanks again for your concern,
Dave

olekyground said:
Not too bad man. Least ya didn't get skunked!!

Yeah really, it's better than finding nothing eh! :laughing7:

pong12211 said:
Nice finds.. Looks like you have a nice spot there... Hope you have some more luck..

Thanks very much for your post pong! :thumbsup:

Every time I go there I say to myself . . . please let me find just one silver, pleeeeeeeeeeease! :laughing7:

John_Deere said:
That looks like a decent site! Congrats and HH!!

Thanks for your post JD, best of luck to you as well! :occasion14:

Dave

Twinkletoes · Aug 30, 2013

When I find brass like that it makes me wonder how they got there!

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prolab69 · Aug 30, 2013

training site? .. find out where the obsticle course was, i did a training site not too long ago and cleaned up on silver every visit. the one i did was huge. find the ravine where they would have had to train, soldiers running, climbing ropes, crawling. trust me, they lost alot of personal items doing that. mostly religious pendants and pocket change, remember when they trained in the movie stripes? just imagine that course from 60yrs ago. ... you find that couse? youll be digging silver for 4 days.

Zodiacdiverdave · Aug 30, 2013

Strange your not finding silver, it should be producing big time. I would give it a few more tries, and try to get some more info on the site. Locate the messes and any old sports fields, all the bases had them.
Nice score on the locket though. :hello2:

ZDD

ANTIQUARIAN · Aug 31, 2013

Twinkletoes said:
When I find brass like that it makes me wonder how they got there!

Well, it was a WWII training site and they had a firing range on the same property. So it doesn't surprise me when 'practice rounds' come to the surface.

Thanks for your post TT! :icon_thumright:

prolab69 said:
training site? .. find out where the obstacle course was, i did a training site not too long ago and cleaned up on silver every visit. the one i did was huge. find the ravine where they would have had to train, soldiers running, climbing ropes, crawling. trust me, they lost a lot of personal items doing that. mostly religious pendants and pocket change, remember when they trained in the movie stripes? just imagine that course from 60yrs ago. ... you find that course? you'll be digging silver for 4 days.

That's a great idea prolab! :thumbsup:

I never thought about about their 'fitness regime'! :icon_scratch:

I'll do some more investigative research and will post back if I find anything!

Thanks very much for this!
Dave

Zodiacdiverdave said:
Strange your not finding silver, it should be producing big time. I would give it a few more tries, and try to get some more info on the site. Locate the messes and any old sports fields, all the bases had them.
Nice score on the locket though.
ZDD

There still is a 'sports field' located here, I noticed it in a photo taken back in the 1960's. The general area that I've been detecting is where the mess hall building is located. I think I'll head back and give the 'sports field' area a sweep when we get some wetter weather, as it's been hot and dry here for weeks! :thumbsup:

Best of luck to you Dave! :occasion14: