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Tanks Swallowed By Nature Look So Peaceful As If The War Never Happened (45 Pics)
Tanks rolled out onto the battlefields of World War I nearly a hundred years ago. Not all of them survived the war to to become museum pieces; many of these lumbering steel behemoths remain stuck where they were rendered immobile. Each was home to three or more fighting men, and not all of them survived the demise of their armored fighting vehicle.
This collection of tanks reclaimed by nature comes from all over the world. From World War II Japanese tanks that found their resting place in the jungles where they struggled against their American counterparts, to the rare German machines now stuck in some forgotten part of Eastern Europe, they're all finally at peace.
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Shumshu, Russia
Abandoned Tank On A Beach In Puerto Rico
Tank Taken Over By Nature
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
Tank Taken Over By Nature
This photo was made in firing range of army barracks in Pancevo, Serbia, and vehicle was destroyed long after WW2, as a stationary target.
Tanks In Antarctica
Tank In Flamenco Beach In Culebra, Puerto Rico
Dorset, Uk
Abandoned Tankn In East Germany
Abandoned Tank Base In Russia
T34/85 in the foreground and a T54 in the background. They were probably used as gunnery training targets.
Tank Swallowed By Corals
Vlieland, Netherlands
Abandoned Is3 On Shikotan Island
Zheltuchin Island, Russia
Shikotan, Russia
Chieftain, Slab Common, Bordon, Uk
Tank Taken Over By Nature
Abandoned Tank In Culebra, Puerto Rico
Fort Knox Military Base, Usa
Challenger On Slab Common, Uk
Tank Taken Over By Nature
Tank Taken Over By Nature
Tank Taken Over By Nature
Abandoned Soviet Tank In Afghanistan
Tank Taken Over By Nature
Tank Taken Over By Nature
Tank Outside Of Massoud's Tomb In Afghanistan
Shikotan, Russia
Abandoned Tank Base In Russia
Tank Taken Over By Nature
Abandoned Tank In Afghanistan
Abandoned Tank In Cuamba, Mozambique
British Army Chieftain, Slab Common, Bordon, Uk
Tank Taken Over By Nature
Abandoned Tank Somewhere In Russia
Tank Taken Over By Nature
Abandoned Tank In Yemen
Fort Knox Military Base, Usa
Chieftain, Slab Common, Bordon, Uk
Tank Taken Over By Nature
Spartan On Slab Common, Uk
Bamiyan, Where The Buddhas Once Stood, Central Afghanistan
Bamiyan, Afghanistan
I wonder how many other guys are looking at these and thinking, "I could fix that..."
Part of me enjoys the way nature is taking these things back, but another part says "Isn't this littering? Why do they think they can leave all this all over the place?"
So sad to see an element of war in such beautiful peaceful places! If only all the ammunition, guns, bombs could be destroyed and this planet was returned to a life of harmony! But alas! It is infested with humans, who can never live in peace!
Though he did not know where the journey would take him, he went on. "I think i can!" thought the little tank as he rolled along... :)
I would love to know; who the last person in it was, when they left it there and why.
Mother Nature is too forgiving and loving, to still accept and invite something that once harmed life.
I wonder how many other guys are looking at these and thinking, "I could fix that..."
Part of me enjoys the way nature is taking these things back, but another part says "Isn't this littering? Why do they think they can leave all this all over the place?"
So sad to see an element of war in such beautiful peaceful places! If only all the ammunition, guns, bombs could be destroyed and this planet was returned to a life of harmony! But alas! It is infested with humans, who can never live in peace!
Though he did not know where the journey would take him, he went on. "I think i can!" thought the little tank as he rolled along... :)
I would love to know; who the last person in it was, when they left it there and why.
Mother Nature is too forgiving and loving, to still accept and invite something that once harmed life.