My Favorite, IH's, the Tractor Rifles

[browningautorifle]

then he drove down to the river and threw them in!

Where the crate remains to this day...

[Mark in Rochester]

I say we go and look for them

Here's some interesting data from my early research interviews in the late 1970s... Floyd LeGendre was the guy who stayed in the plant until the actual closing day. He told me that after everything was gone, a truck delivered a crate from Springfield Armory that turned out to be 10 rifles sent for parts interchangeability testing. He had no idea what to do with them, everything had been turned in and the closing was finalized, so he loaded the crate into the trunk of his car and waited until dark... then he drove down to the river and threw them in! OUCH!
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WWII Veteran tells story of buried diamonds

JESSE POOL
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MARCH 6, 2017
An Israeli born veteran, Yaron Svoray, was on a lecture tour in the United States and met Sam Neyr, a WWII veteran, who told him about a foxhole on the border between France and Germany where he had buried 40 uncut diamonds.

The story was so incredible that Yaron actually believed him. Yaron thought initially that the search would be simple. Sam Nyer’s descriptions were full of amazing detail. However, even with Nyer’s recollections, the search area covered a thousand square miles of forest and several hills scattered with innumerable foxholes. Finding Nyer’s precise foxhole was virtually impossible.

Over the next 11 years, Yaron kept returning to the French hill. Finally, Yaron Svoray and his team returned to the hill and started digging. But this time, Yaron found something that would change his life forever. The diamonds were found but not in the way he had expected. The story of Yaron’s search for the diamonds was made into the award winning History Channel movie, “Blood from a Stone”