Hello Scout, nice to met you, hope all is well.
I don't quite understand you're comments: "There is always one" and that my first post is "novel"....both followed with sarcastic rolling eyes smilies, I'm not really sure if you're truly irked or not by something I've said or done.
Either way, if you read the first words of my post, I'm merely wishing the brave Soviet frontoviks, the main subject of this thread who've been lost (and most probably forgotten) for over 75yrs to finally rest in peace along with their comrades in arms and tipping my hat to the fine work the volunteers did recovering them.
If that makes me "the one" in "there is always one" and makes my first post "novel" so be it.
My added information about the Tollund man were secondary and in no way were trying to undermine the POV of yourself or the many others who know vastly more than you or I about this phenomenon of peat bog preservation. I thank you for showing Tollund man, he is truly fascinating. He is the finest example of all the iron age "Bog people". I thought the added info would be interesting to any future viewers of this thread who did not know about him. What you mention about his serene expression is really amazing, also amazing to me is even his beard stubble is perfectly preserved. He's also provided the oldest set of fingerprints in Scotland Yard & the world
"But still" Scout, Thank you for your welcome to the forum.
I did not see a section of this forum for new members to make a formal introduction, and it's maybe not proper to do so here, so forgive me if so, but........
Hello, my name is Charles... or "Charlie" as friends call me, and I've been a military historian and collector for almost 50 years. My main focus for the last 40yrs has mainly been firearms and ordnance items of all countries involved in WWII, but over the years I've been a bit eclectic as most true collectors are, and I've collected & researched many many items & subjects. My family were all WWII veterans. My mother's brother was KIA Sept. '44. Keeping in tune with this thread, they did not recover his remains and some of his B24 crew members until 1949. The remains being found on a Greek island where there are no peat bogs were surely not in the extremely well preserved state of some of the frontovik's shown in this thread, nor anywhere close to Tollund man.
Godspeed to all the fallen, past, present and future, our world should never forget
Wishing all a happy holidays and a good new year coming soon.
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