Wow!!
how well has that been preserved!!! Wash the mud off and check the battery and off you go!
What happened to the tank after this?
That’s certainly a great photograph, but if you hadn’t mentioned it, I wouldn’t have been able to tell that the thing in the back is supposed to be a Tiger
Oh, thank you, my dear Mr. Schuultz. And yes - I know exactly what you mean: obviously, driver’s observation slot is in the middle of the freshly welded frontal armor plate, turret is a little bit too elongated, commander’s cupola is not sufficiently raised and the main gun is a bit too short. However, all the other elements actually are there: the Kugelblende with an original MG 34, exhaust covers at the back of the hull, turret box, etc. 
Nevertheless, all those T 34 examples actually were modified for a couple of close-ups (scene with the Molotov cocktail charge of a female partisan and subsequent death of a young and compassionate German liaison officer, brilliantly role-played by Mr. Ralph Persson), and the final result is completely visible in this short passage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkwgYA_gJ8s&feature=related
I shall try to find some snapshots from the set. In the meantime – enjoy in those unforgettable scenes! 
Here’s what I found out about it:
WW 2 Buffs will find this interesting…Even after 62 years (and a little tinkering), they were able to fire up the Diesel Engine! A Komatsu D375A-2 pulled an abandoned tank from its archival tomb under the bottom of a lake nearJohvi, Estonia. The Soviet-built T34/76A tank had been resting at the bottom of the lake for 56 years. According to its specifications, it’s a 27-tonne machine with a top speed of 53km/h. >From February to September 1944, heavy battles were fought in the narrow, 50 km-wide, Narva front in the north-eastern part of Estonia. Over 100,000 men were killed and 300,000 men were wounded there. During battles in the summer of 1944, the tank was captured from the Soviet army and used by the German army. (This is the reason that there are German markings painted on the tank’s exterior.) On 19 September 1944, German troops began an organized retreat along the Narva front. It is suspected that the tank was then purposefully driven into the lake, abandoning it when its captors left the area. At that time, a local boy walking by the lake Kurtna Matasjarv noticed tank tracks leading into the lake, but not coming out anywhere For two months he saw air bubbles emerging from the lake. This gave him reason to believe that there must be an armored vehicle at the lake’s bottom. A few years ago, he told the story to the leader of the local war history club ‘Otsing’. Together with other club members, Mr. Igor Shedunov initiated diving expeditions to the bottom of the lake about a year ago. At the depth of 7 metres they discovered the tank resting under a 3-metre layer of peat. Enthusiasts from the club, under Mr Shedunov’s leadership, decided to pull the tank out. In September 2000 they turned to Mr Aleksander Borovkovthe, manager of the Narva open pit of the stock company AS Eesti Polevkivi, to rent the company’s Komatsu D375A-2 bulldozer. Currently used at the pit, the Komatsu dozer was manufactured in 1995, and has 19,000 operating hours without major repairs.
The pulling operation began at 09:00 and was concluded at 15:00, with several technical breaks. The weight of the tank, combined with the travel incline, made a pulling operation that required significant muscle. The D375A-2 handled the operation with power and style. The weight of the fully armed tank was around 30 tons, so the active force required to retrieve it was similar. A main requirement for the 68-ton dozer was to have enough weight to prevent shoe-slip while moving up the hill. After the tank surfaced, it turned out to be a trophy tank, that had been captured by the German army in the course of the battle at Sinimaed (Blue Hills) about six weeks before it was sunk in the lake. Altogether, 116 shells were found on board. Remarkably, the tank was in good condition, with NO RUST and ALL SYSTEMS (except the engine) in working condition. This is a very rare machine, especially considering that it fought both on the Russian and the German sides. Plans are under way to fully restore the tank. It will be displayed at a war history museum, that will be founded at the Gorodenko village on the left bank of the River Narv.
Here’s another one from a bog, no German markings though:
Is it me or it was initially uspside down?
It seems to be in a very good condition.Not much damage,if any,armour wise.
Also any info to which division/brigade it came from?If it’s from the Demjansk area ,the only armored division during the fighting in the pocket would have been the Totenkopf division(SS-StuG.-Bttr.“Totenkopf”).Also, I can only see the number 20,no other markings as if the StuG was scrubed.Can anybody confirm it’s an Ausf G?If it is ,it was only produced in December 1942 which makes it impossible to have been in the fight of the Demjansk pocket.
I feel dizzy now…
Thanks for the link btw.
http://ww2incolor.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4215
The T-34 is German service: http://www.achtungpanzer.com/panzerkampfwagen-t-34r-soviet-t-34-in-german-service.htm
What about the StuG III?
Having just learned about it now, I have nothing on that. 
But there have been several models pulled from bogs or swamps mostly in the East. I saw a “Tank Overhaul” episode on a Panther pulled out. It had been intentionally driven into a Polish bog with a demolition charge blasting the turret to prevent capture by the advancing Red Army. They pulled out and the billionaire owner was undertaking a painstaking restoration…
Was there SUCH a tank???
Oh yeah, definitely. Swiss Army, though, not the Wehrmacht. Sadly didn’t see a lot of action.
:mrgreen:
It was a tank with heavy armor and a powerful gun. It was extremely heavy and not very fast. If it got stuck in a ditch or something, then that was pretty much it for the king.