Hard to imagine that many of those birds all overhead at once, all armed to the teeth and all coming for a piece of your azz....just the sound alone must have been insane.
BTW, those are some impressive pics and stories in those links you provided. Thank you for providing them.
I had no idea that there was STILL that much unexploded ordinance in the ground over there.
#98 I had no idea that there was STILL that much unexploded ordinance in the ground over there.
Yeah, you do not want to be a ditch digger swinging a pick axe over there!
After the war, the US provided Germany with untold amounts of camera footage that the American bombers had taken. Because the Americans were primarily doing daylight raids, the bomb hits in the photos are remarkably clear.
The Germans have it down to a science in that they can see exactly where a bomb fell but failed to explode; it's that obvious.
(There seems to have been an awful lot of bombs that failed to detonate and which raises obvious questions about the QC in our munitions plants, but I think that's a subject for another day.)