Black Box: Missing for Half a Century. the Hidden Treasure of the Desert Fox

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Field Marshall Irwin Rommel's most revered treasure was a Back Box given to him by the Adolf Hitler. In part the box contained a special Walther PPK; an ivory handled German officers dagger, and solid gold Knight of the Knights Iron Cross. Rommel, known as The Desert Fox, added to the box 300 of the largest diamonds to be found anywhere on the continent of Africa. This treasure was only one part of an array of spoils seized, by the Germans during the African Campaign segment of WW II. The theme of the story centers on this treasure and the surreptitious relationship that existed between the Field Marshall and a United States Army Air Corp General who was in charge of the European-African-Middle Eastern Theater of operations. The treasure that was flown by a USAAC B-17 bomber from Tunisia, off the north-east coast of Africa, never made it to its pre-determined designation, Corsica.The box changed hands a few times and caused many deaths before coming to its half century resting place on the island of Sardinia off the coastline of Italy. After sitting for fifty plus years the box was again on the move and immediately the killings started just as they had in the past when the box did not have a home. Now after the turn of the century the box traveled from Sardinia to New York and to then to the eastern shores of Long Island. It made its way as far south as the Treasure Coast of Florida and had left the country a number of times before returning. During its journey it left a tr…

Black Box: Missing for Half a Century. the Hidden Treasure of the Desert Fox

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