Po goes dry, and an old tracked vehicle of the German troops appears
A Nazi tank was found in Po river. The increasing drought has brought a strong dry in the main river of Italy and the water level that has lowered in different parts of the river has made old relics resurface from its bed, including the military vehicles of the Second World War. It happened in the stretch of the Po between Pomponesco (Mantua) and Gualtieri (Reggio Emilia), where a boat sunk by the Nazis in 1945 was found. In Sermide, an abandoned tracked vehicle emerged during the retreat of the German troops.
Simone Guidorzi, the director of the Po River Museum of the Second World War, spoke of a “practically unique opportunity” to recover a historical piece. Indeed, the German halftrack would have been pushed into the river on 23 April 1945 by the retreating Germans: fact known and documented by a photo taken at the time by an English reconnaissance plane. However, until now no one had found him. Samuele Bernini, a volunteer of the Museum, succeeded, who decided to go looking for him using the shoal and saw some metal sheets sticking out of the sand.
“The halftrack is a model Sd.Kfz.11 e weighs about 7 tons. It took almost two days of work to extract it ”, explained the director Guidorzi. “We started with shovels, then we had the support of excavators. The Germans in this area have abandoned various vehicles. Many were quickly recovered, but this one ended up in deep water. Now we will exhibit it in our museum“, he added.
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