[ARC5] BC-611 Production numbers...now AMA

[Mike Feher]

As a kid around 8 in Hungary, one day walking home from school, I found one
of those German hand grenades behind some bushes. For some reason, I knew
not to play with it, which was unusual for me. I yelled at a soldier not far
away and when he saw it, he about wet his pants. Evacuated the area and they
slowly removed it without it going boom. This was probably around 1953. 73 -
Mike  

 

Mike B. Feher, N4FS

89 Arnold Blvd.

Howell NJ 07731

848-245-9115

 

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From: arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net <arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf
Of Hubert Miller
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2021 3:42 PM
To: ARC-5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [ARC5] BC-611 Production numbers...now AMA

 

Very interesting, Dave.

I have on my desk a 50 caliber bullet that as a child of 10, I dug out of a
bunker in Germany.

We called them "bullet mines". You just got a spoon and dug a little ways
down in the berm of some fortification and you found them. I wonder now if
the parents who those spoons belonged to, never noticed their dinnerware
count was off. Of course, a bullet is not much of a collectible trophy, and
there must be billions of them peppering the soil. What puzzles me still is
some we found, which looked like longer and narrower bullets than the 50
cal. I recall there were lots of fragments of fragmentation grenades lying
about also. I recall one kid had a rusty German helmet and he was the envy
of all the rest of us. My brother tells me that valley has been completely
redone, all those ruined fortifications are gone, and it looks
unrecognizable. The "lure of loot". Is that how my collecting - nature began
? 

-Hue Miller

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