Well this was about 4 years ago, we were moving into the new house in a Bay Area Town that had a naval base(Mare Island, Vallejo,Ca.) and the backyard was severely overgrown with weeds, empty wood boxes etc...well we started weed-eating the weeds and when we got to the front corner of the property
we found a 1/4 scale one man submarine that used to be up on a sign in front of the swabby bars right near the front of the main entrance to the base...after researching it somewhat we found that it had been stolen quite a few years prior, well we dug around in it and it contained articles like a hard hat, some paperwork dated like 1967-68 and an old pack of lucky strike non filters, matches, an old pair of holy boots and many layers of rat/etc. crap..kind of like a mini time capsule....we contacted a friend who was stationed ther before it closed and he said the naval history museum in town would like to come look at it, they did and asked if they could remove it, we said "sure thing!" and they loaded it up & took off downtown, i don't know what happened to it from there?
DOUG/DWYJ