Antique & Classic Cars Blog

This has been kicking around the internet for a while, but I hadn’t seen it until a friend and blogger here sent it along: a WWII tank, submerged in a peat-bottomed lake in Estonia, was pulled free by a large bulldozer.

A little searching seems to confirm that this is a true story. About the only think I could think of to produce fake footage of this type would be if the tank were used in a movie and was being newly recovered.

I apologize for the Russian dating link that may appear on the page. Please ignore. The rest of the site is informative and includes both still photos and video clips of the tank extraction.

It’s in extraordinarily good condition and may have had to wait so long, for, among other reasons, a really powerful modern bulldozer to pull it out.

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