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Originally Posted by jaydee
Not in the back yard, but when my old Pop was crook I moved in to look after him. When I died I was cleaning out all his stuff and came across an MG34 german WW2 machine gun.
It was tucked away in the corner of his garage behind a whole stack of long handled shovels and rakes. No one knows how he got it into the country or how he came by it. He never fought the germans, he was a RAAF mechanic in PNG.
Handed it in to the war museum, wish I'd kept it now and had it rendered innocuous. Ah well.
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A LOT of things made it back during the war... even Vietnam and yes even now!
(Just think back to MASH and see how Klinger sent a JEEP home bit by bit!)