Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2015 13:31:44 GMT
Seems that there's been an article in the news lately about some guys who believed
they found a buried Nazi train rumored to contain plundered gold, etc., in Poland.
And from that same era, we may have our own buried treasure down in the national forests
of Louisiana; including the possibility of P-40 fighter planes , tanks, jeeps, half-tracks, and
who knows what else?
theadvocate.com/features/people/13815654-32/buried-treasure
www.kttn.com/kgozfm/modules/news/article.php?storyid=17927
Baton Rouge resident Morton Hurston Jr. believes a trove of the planes and other WWII equipment
is buried in Kisatchie National Forest and could possibly be a gold mine for museums. The equipment
detected five objects at least the size of an automobile, Hurston said. Surveys of the ground adjacent
to the berm turned up nothing. So, Hurston believes, that something is definitely down there.
The P-40s, packed in corrosion preventative, might be in mint condition.
There are only six P-40s flying in the world,” he said. This could be a very significant historic site.
Hurston believes the equipment was buried in 1943 at Camp Claiborne, an Army facility north
of Forest Hill in Rapides Parish used during World War II, mostly for basic training and artillery practice.
Camp Claiborne closed in 1948 and, except for signs on La. 112, little of it remains today.
In 1981, Hurston, an Army veteran of the Vietnam War and then an East Baton Rouge sheriff's reserve deputy,
met Jackie Peters, then a full-time deputy. Peters told him that his brother's father-in-law, Sam Rathburn, of Baker,
had described how he was a heavy equipment operator who helped dig three long trenches. A railroad spur was built,
and the equipment was brought to the site, driven into the trenches, then covered with the soil, forming three berms.
Neither Hurston nor Peters, who also has tried to investigate the site, has found any paperwork acknowledging the equipment burial.
Peters said he thinks the equipment, which was no longer state-of-the-art, had been sold to China, but it couldn’t be delivered because
Japanese forces had cut off land access to that country. So, it was buried to prevent sabotage and, it seems, forgotten.
When Peters was in the Navy Reserves in the 1980s, he knew men in an antisubmarine squadron who had an aerial magnetometer.
He asked them if they could explore the area. They flew over and did a magnetometer sweep, Peters said.
They said there was so much junk down there, we couldn't tell what was down there. It just blew us off the screen.
they found a buried Nazi train rumored to contain plundered gold, etc., in Poland.
And from that same era, we may have our own buried treasure down in the national forests
of Louisiana; including the possibility of P-40 fighter planes , tanks, jeeps, half-tracks, and
who knows what else?
theadvocate.com/features/people/13815654-32/buried-treasure
www.kttn.com/kgozfm/modules/news/article.php?storyid=17927
Baton Rouge resident Morton Hurston Jr. believes a trove of the planes and other WWII equipment
is buried in Kisatchie National Forest and could possibly be a gold mine for museums. The equipment
detected five objects at least the size of an automobile, Hurston said. Surveys of the ground adjacent
to the berm turned up nothing. So, Hurston believes, that something is definitely down there.
The P-40s, packed in corrosion preventative, might be in mint condition.
There are only six P-40s flying in the world,” he said. This could be a very significant historic site.
Hurston believes the equipment was buried in 1943 at Camp Claiborne, an Army facility north
of Forest Hill in Rapides Parish used during World War II, mostly for basic training and artillery practice.
Camp Claiborne closed in 1948 and, except for signs on La. 112, little of it remains today.
In 1981, Hurston, an Army veteran of the Vietnam War and then an East Baton Rouge sheriff's reserve deputy,
met Jackie Peters, then a full-time deputy. Peters told him that his brother's father-in-law, Sam Rathburn, of Baker,
had described how he was a heavy equipment operator who helped dig three long trenches. A railroad spur was built,
and the equipment was brought to the site, driven into the trenches, then covered with the soil, forming three berms.
Neither Hurston nor Peters, who also has tried to investigate the site, has found any paperwork acknowledging the equipment burial.
Peters said he thinks the equipment, which was no longer state-of-the-art, had been sold to China, but it couldn’t be delivered because
Japanese forces had cut off land access to that country. So, it was buried to prevent sabotage and, it seems, forgotten.
When Peters was in the Navy Reserves in the 1980s, he knew men in an antisubmarine squadron who had an aerial magnetometer.
He asked them if they could explore the area. They flew over and did a magnetometer sweep, Peters said.
They said there was so much junk down there, we couldn't tell what was down there. It just blew us off the screen.
