Wrecks in the Libyan desert....

[Warbirdnerd]

A video of mostly tanks and vehicles, but at about the 5:58 mark there is a Blenheim and a Hawker (Sea) Fury. I wonder what else is out there:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/militar ... ii-museum/

[Warbirdnerd]

Is that a second Fury in the background or something else?

[bat31]

Libya never operated Hawker Furies. This photo was taken in Irak.

There is a picture on a British modeller forum showing the same wrecks from a different angle.

http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/inde ... -sea-fury/

Cheers,

Phil

[Warbirdnerd]

Here is what a member of the Flypast Message Board member (Kuno) had to say about the video:

The Hawker Fury is definitely not to be found in the "Libyan Desert"... The other relics I have all visited through the years - in fact, the fotos are actually mine (I have posted them in various fora in the internet from where the maker of this "video" copied them). Excempttions are the White truck in the Gilf Kebir and the Daimlers on the foot of the Jebel Nafusah... I am not even sure about the Daimlers since I had visited them as well one day.

The title of the video is misleading - it is definitely not the case that Libya is one big open WW2 museum - the distances between the individual wrecks count hundrets of kilometers. And: Neither the Daimler cars nor the Sherman are WW2 relics. The latter came from a postwar shooting range and the Daimlers are stored next to a military baracks.

The Ford belonged to the Sudan Defence Force and the Stuart Tank was most probably the one which the SAS wanted to drive to Benghazi (but already failed at Hauaari). The replica of the Lancia and the Fiat were used in the movie "Omar Mukhtar - Lion of the Desert" and the Chevrolet belonged to the Free French. It was abandoned in spring 1942 (if I recall correctly). The Blenheim is an Mk IV which was force landed by the South Africans. At last: The Italian tank-turrets. They are gone. Years ago these Italian wrecks went to the steel factory in Misurata.

[Chris Brame]

Well, there's still the Martin Maryland...