Posted on 10/13/2020 11:33:05 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
The biggest World War Two bomb ever found in Poland exploded under water on Tuesday as navy divers tried to defuse it.
More than 750 people had been evacuated from the area near the Piast Canal outside the town of Swinoujscie where the Tallboy bomb used by Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) was found. It weighed nearly 5,400 kg, including 2,400 kg of explosive.
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...“I guess on a tactical level, there was a novel by M.M. Kaye called ‘The Far Pavilions,’ and, of course, Guy Sajer’s ‘The Forgotten Soldier,‘” Mattis told Ancell.
Here, hold my beer while I... Oops!
That was a fantastic series.
They modified Lancasters, pretty seriously so.
Unexpected expense occurred when the Land Man determined it had been once been owned by the US gov and was a WWI bombing range for Ft Camp Bowie during that period.
I delivered a lot of 85 gallon steel salvage drums to that site.
Yeah, those two have been found. They know exactly where they are. Unfortunately, residences and farms have been built over them in the intervening decades and it is thought that any attempt to disarm the charges will cause them to detonate as the explosives have likely gone unstable.
They’re hoping that they will degrade to the point where they go inert in the next few decades.
And yes, the Iron Harvest is a thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_harvest
WW1 will likely still be killing people in Europe a half-century from now, if not longer.
And that’s in Belgium - in France... they’re thinking WW1 may potentially still be killing people for 300-700 more years and they still have no-go zones, La Zone Rouge:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_Rouge
“They’re hoping that they will degrade to the point where they go inert in the next few decades.”
There’s literally nothing they can do. If they try to disarm the huge explosives, remove them or artificially render them inert, they will probably detonate.
The same thing applies to a WW2 munitions ship that sank at the end of Thames River Estuary in the UK.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ltu7AOZssy0
Used to watch that show religiously. Soon discovered that, when they showed a closeup of the guy defusing the bomb and then the lens suddenly zoomed to a long shot - there would be an explosion. Never failed.
Unexploded WWII ordnance ping.
With videos.
I’m just glad this didn’t turn into a cavalcade of Polish jokes.
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