Amazing. Had it gone off and killed someone they would officially be victims of WW2.
I knew it was a big mistake to shut down Tempelhof!
The U.S. dropped a lot of bombs with delayed fuses, which had the effect of discouraging attempts to disarm or remove duds. You couldn’t tell if a bomb was a dud or had a delayed fuse.
I suspect this was a dud-dud (not a delayed fuse-dud) that got buried in the mud, maybe in a raid aimed a cratering the runway.
When I lived in Germany, this was a common occurence. I don’t remember the Kaserne (maybe Kissengen), but a bomb blew up under the commissary/px parking lot one weekend. Had the detonation happened during the week, many people would have been killed.
This happened to myself and Mrs. MAExile when we were in Italy a few years back. They had to shut down the trains and a highway for a couple of days. We ended up having to take a bus down to the Amalfi Coast.
Could someone please explain to me how this device is suddenly dangerous, yet planes have been taking off and landing over it for nearly 70 years? The safety zone around a 500lb bomb blast is about 125 meters. Put up some yellow tape and keep flying.
Sounds like over reaction to me, the bomb hit the ground, didn’t go off, lay there for over 65 years with construction going on all around it, airplanes much heavier than existed in those days frolicking in it’s general area all these years, corrosion, water leakage, then some goober rips it out of the ground with a backhoe! I’m no expert, but I don’t think it would explode even if Obama signed an executive order or it to.
Danger UXB