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Tango01  | 24 Jan 2025 4:14 p.m. PST |
… the Bulgarian & Turkish border
"During World War II, when Bulgaria joined the Axis powers in fighting the Soviet Union, they were given some 97 German Panzer IV tanks, about 100 Sturmgeschuetz III assault guns, and Jagdpanzer IV tank destroyers.
After the war, around 100 of these had been buried on the Bulgarian southeastern border with Turkey as defensive positions as a Cold War deterrent to NATO's southern flank. In 1974 the Bulgarian Army added a second defensive and over 100 Soviet T-34 tanks were buried. When the Cold War ended, and the Warsaw Pact disappeared in 1991, the Army eventually forgot the tanks and their bunkers which were left abandoned and unguarded…"
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| UshCha | 26 Jan 2025 3:23 a.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 26 Jan 2025 2:51 p.m. PST |
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| 79thPA | 27 Jan 2025 10:30 a.m. PST |
Bulgaria bought a fair number panzers from Germany, a significant percentage of which were lost in combat. The number of captured German tanks given to Bulgaria (and, I believe) Romania, is pretty interesting. Turkey also had its own Pz IIIs and IVs, as well as various Russian "T series" tanks, Stuarts, Valentines, and some Shermans. It would make for an interesting 45/46 what-if armor battle. |
| Tango01 | 27 Jan 2025 2:58 p.m. PST |
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is finally getting into Team Yankee.
