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WOW just WOW
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 6:11 pm
by CUDA
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/07/lo ... ed/?hpt=C2
This is an INCREDIBLE find
Lost WWII battlefield found -– war dead included
An Australian trekker said he has discovered the site of a significant World War II battle in the jungles of Papua New Guinea, complete with the remains of Japanese soldiers right where they fell almost 70 years ago.
Former army Capt. Brian Freeman, an expert on the Kokoda Trail – a 60-mile trek through rugged mountainous country and rainforest of the island – said Monday he was led to the Eora Creek battle site where he found the remains of the soldiers.
The site about half a mile from the village of Eora Creek was believed to be the location of the last major battle that was pivotal in Australia’s campaign against the Japanese in Papau New Guinea.
Although the site was known to local villages, jungles reclaimed it after the battle of Eora Creek. Although locals hunted on the plateau surrounding the site, they avoided the 600-square-meter battle ground because of a belief that spirits of the dead were still present in the \"lost battlefield.\"
What this means is that the site has apparently remained untouched since 1942.
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 7:00 pm
by Isaac
There aren't enough wows in the title to define how wow this is.
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 7:33 pm
by AlphaDoG
Ok, I'll bite. I'm sure it's a great archeological find, but does it alter history?
http://www.tendiscoveries.com/
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 7:49 pm
by Isaac
[quote="AlphaDoG"]I'm sure it's a great archeological find, but does it alter history?/quote]
Is that all that matters to you?
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 7:50 pm
by AceCombat
definitive WOW
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Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 8:21 pm
by Duper
Isaac wrote:Is that all that matters to you?
quit being a dick.
That IS amazing. Were the helmets found that way or did the archaeologists hang them on the sticks?
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 9:11 pm
by Sirius
This will be very interesting to the archaeologists and historians, I agree. WW2 isn't out of living memory yet, but with it being so untouched, this certainly would preserve a picture of what these battles were like in a way that few things can.
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Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 9:54 pm
by AlphaDoG
Isaac wrote:AlphaDoG wrote:I'm sure it's a great archeological find, but does it alter history?
Is that all that matters to you?
Quit being a dick!
The outcome of WWII remains the same, however if you take the time to click my link, you will find that more than a few minds were turned when "someone" happened upon those 10 things that did indeed alter history.
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Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 5:58 am
by CUDA
Duper wrote:That IS amazing. Were the helmets found that way or did the archaeologists hang them on the sticks?
article says they were found that way
Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 8:54 am
by CUDA
Honestly I'm a HUGE WW2 history buff, so maybe this hase more significance to me than it does to the average Joe.
no it does not alter history.
but the fact that this site remained untouched for 65 years allows us an almost direct look into the lives, and death of those men and the aftermath of that particular conflict. so no it does not alter history, instead it is history
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Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 11:38 am
by Isaac
CUDA wrote:Honestly I'm a HUGE WW2 history buff, so maybe this hase more significance to me than it does to the average Joe.
no it does not alter history.
but the fact that this site remained untouched for 65 years allows us an almost direct look into the lives, and death of those men and the aftermath of that particular conflict. so no it does not alter history, instead it is history
I'm not a history buff, but I feel its significance in the same way as you.
Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 10:50 am
by Gekko71
Both of my grandfathers and my wife's father all saw combat in this region of the world during WWII. The images of Japanese helmets still standing guard over their owners gave me chills
Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 12:34 pm
by Duper
my great Uncle got 3 purple hearts in that area. He lost an entire platoon of 20+ guys to one mortar strike. He happened to be assisting a scout spot over a ridge near by.
Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 8:34 pm
by Sirius
Heavens... that must have been horrible for him. That's a very, very unlucky mortar hit too.
The more recent wars the US army has been involved in are practically tidy in comparison to WW2...
Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 8:49 pm
by woodchip
Someone recently said if we fought WW2 like we fight wars today, we would of lost.
Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 9:06 pm
by flip
That's because most of the wars since then have been more police actions than anything else.
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Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 9:59 am
by Krom
woodchip wrote:Someone recently said if we fought WW2 like we fight wars today, we would of lost.
And they would be: absolutely correct. Bleeding heart liberals all over the world have been giving their very best to try and make war all clean and pretty, which is completely stupid and counterproductive.
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 10:40 am
by Sirius
I tend to think that wars today are fought the way they are because we can afford to. Trying to avoid burning villages to the ground seems like a good thing as long as you can still win. The Marines (and so on) are good enough that they can.