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In the images above, wrecked allied tanks remain in the spots where they were destroyed and/or abandoned during World War Two, from the Battle of France to Stalingrad.

1951 German Triumph spent 40 years in a stream

 In  Norway

Aberlady Bay, near Edinburgh, is a beauty spot teeming with wildlife. But before becoming a nature reserve in 1952, the beach was the used as a military firing range and is home to various shipwrecks, including two intriguing XT class midget submarines

It’s amazing what can be found while flying around the world via Google Earth – such as the ghostly images of Britain’s lost airfields and, in this, an amazingly intact anti-aircraft battery and control centre – which are likely to have been decoys.

 The US government is notoriously obstructive about allowing members of the public near its fleet of mothballed Stealth Fighters. So artist Zaq Landsberg built his own full scale wooden mock-up.

 When Captain ‘Fred’ Eaton, Jr crash landed B-17 Flying Fortress 41-2446 in Papua New Guinea in 1942, he and his crew could never have imagined that, 70 years later, their aircraft would be on display in California.

 Lying in 50 metres of water off the coast of Papua New Guinea, the remarkably intact B-17 Flying Fortress “Black Jack”, discovered in 1986, is one of the most unique and important Pacific aircraft wrecks.

 Antique Sub Marine Explorer After 142 Years of Abandonment in Panama

Dubbed “the Maid of Harlech“, this crashed P-38 Lightning must be one of Britain’s most enigmatic aircraft wrecks. In 1942, Second Lt. Robert “Fred” Elliot crash landed the American fighter on a beach near the 13th Century Harlech Castle in Wales. While the nose guns and other useful parts were removed, the P-38 was abandoned on the beach and subsequently covered by decades of shifting sand. In 2007, after 65 years, the Maid of Harlech reappeared. It is considered one of the most significant discoveries in aircraft archaeology and an effort has been mounted to salvage the historic fighter. Once again covered by sand, its exact location remains a closely guarded secret to keep souvenir hunters away while the preservation project ramps up.

The Murmansk was a Russian Sverdlov class cruiser built in 1955. Its impressive wreck lies off the coast of Norway between North Cape and Tromso.

The foreboding Kola Peninsula in northwest Russia is home to an incredible Soviet submarine graveyard near the naval base of Olenya Bay. Today, the base – and its rusting subs – represent one of the most bleak naval facilities on the planet.

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