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Goering with bullitholes

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Goering with bullitholes

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This bust of Luftwaffe Chief Herman Goering was picked off a rubbish tip at Detmold in Germany in 1947 by Edward Jackson who was serving with 1st Royal Tank Regiment at the time. A local German thought the damage to the face had been done when Americans had captured the camp in 1945, ‘and they were shooting at just about everything.’ The bust was later returned to Britain as a souvenir and handed to the Tank Museum in 1957. For a number of years it was displayed in the Museum with an erroneous caption stating the damage was made by drunken Russian soldiers. taken from FB/The Tank Museum

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3/24/2016

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