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jedly1 · 12 January 2013, 10:49 AM

none of the grunts who were involved in doing it know the exact reasons, but supposition is that it related to some of the tritium scares at the time and maybe the amount of tritium material that would be on a lot of pieces, i spoke to one ex quartermaster who thought maybe actually may also have been relation to the fact they'd done the same in the past with radium watches and someone just went down same path...same is supposed to have also happened here in oz with many mil watches.

BaltimoreBrian · 12 January 2013, 11:53 AM

Just LOVE this information!

Passionata · 12 January 2013, 05:57 PM

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Originally Posted by jedly1

none of the grunts who were involved in doing it know the exact reasons, but supposition is that it related to some of the tritium scares at the time and maybe the amount of tritium material that would be on a lot of pieces, i spoke to one ex quartermaster who thought maybe actually may also have been relation to the fact they'd done the same in the past with radium watches and someone just went down same path...same is supposed to have also happened here in oz with many mil watches.

Very interestjng could you tell a bit more detailed ,you mean the army destroyed some watches in order to avoid tritium exposion?

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George

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Darlinboy · 12 January 2013, 09:43 PM

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...1000 watches ish supplied, we know multiple hundreds were destroyed and put in concrete and sank to the bottom of the bay, we know many didnt survive service full stop...

Great info!

Forget the Titanic... perhaps someone will raise a big hunk of that milsub-studded concrete.

Mike Wood · 12 January 2013, 10:34 PM

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Great info!

Forget the Titanic... perhaps someone will raise a big hunk of that milsub-studded concrete.

"A" marks the spot..!

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en...&ved=0CJQBELYD

BaltimoreBrian · 14 January 2013, 04:02 AM

And now Mike Wood is here!!

pdoukas · 14 January 2013, 04:14 AM

Stupid question, but if they were sunk, why wouldn't someone fund a dive to go get them?

topcat30093 · 14 January 2013, 04:30 AM

Because they were probably smashed into many piece before then being place in concrete.

Plus, who would now know the exact location?

RC2 · 14 January 2013, 04:39 AM

Road trip - I mean plane trip to A spot!!!!

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12 January 2013, 10:49 AM	#31
jedly1 "TRF" Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: mel(oz)/Yorks(uk) Posts: 1,929	none of the grunts who were involved in doing it know the exact reasons, but supposition is that it related to some of the tritium scares at the time and maybe the amount of tritium material that would be on a lot of pieces, i spoke to one ex quartermaster who thought maybe actually may also have been relation to the fact they'd done the same in the past with radium watches and someone just went down same path...same is supposed to have also happened here in oz with many mil watches.

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pdoukas "TRF" Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Real Name: Pete Location: Arizona Watch: ing Duke bball Posts: 1,488	Stupid question, but if they were sunk, why wouldn't someone fund a dive to go get them?

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