We are probably all familiar with stories of hidden, or buried, military vehicles; the chap who tells you always got it straight from the fellow who buried it, or found it. There is the one about the Tiger in East Anglia, left there, so they say, by a couple of soldiers who parked it in a farmer's barn for the night, promising to come back for it in the morning. Or there is the King Tiger (they're almost always Tigers) sitting quietly where it was parked in 1945, in a sealed off underground bunker in Germany. Perhaps because we are the Tank Museum we hear more of them than most and can therefore be excused for taking a sceptical view. Of course there was the famous case of the Dorking Covenanter, that turned out to be true [see issue No. 6], but so far it has been the only one out of dozens. Some years ago now I was talking to someone, an American who could be described as eminent among tank historians, and he told me about this big museum, somewhere outside Moscow, where they have the only surviving Maus, the Germans' superheavy tank.
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