Posted on 07/11/2005 9:56:56 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Sunday July 10, 3:23 PM
7,000 evacuated in Tokyo suburbs while wartime dud shell removed
(Kyodo) _ About 7,000 residents in western Tokyo suburbs were evacuated Sunday as a Ground Self-Defense Force unit disposed of an unexploded bomb, believed to have been dropped by the U.S. military during World War II, from a crop field in the city of Nishitokyo.
It took about half an hour for the GSDF unit to remove the detonator from the so-called "1-ton bomb," which was found 10 meters underground in the field. The bomb was 180 centimeters in length and 60 cm in diameter.
The owner of the land plot reported the bomb to the municipal government of Nishitokyo in April, and the GSDF provided an emergency operation June 10.
At the request of the authorities, about 3,100 households within a 500-meter radius were evacuated in the morning to safe locations including schools and community centers. The evacuation order covered households in the cities of Nishitokyo and Musashino and Nerima Ward.
According to Nishitokyo city officials, the area suffered intense bombings by the U.S. military due to a now-defunct local factory of Nakajima Aircraft Industries Ltd. which produced airplane engines during the war. Nakajima Aircraft is the predecessor of Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., the maker of Subaru cars.
see #20
For those unable or unwilling to understand the International Standards system, the bomb was approximately 6 feet long and 2 feet in diameter. A metric tonne is roughly equivalent to a U.S. ton (2200 pounds vice 2000 pounds).
BTW, the International Standards system is used by most of the rest of the world. You needn't adopt it personally, but having a working knowledge of it does come in handy when dealing with situations outside the United States.
Or those of us in the defense industry, computer industry, engineering ...
I know a caucasian gal who's married to a Nippon...and she jokingly refers to him as "Rice-d***"
Karl Rove leaked the bombs weight!
I am quite capable of converting SAE to metric. Hell, I can even convert Centigrade to Kelvin. Hold several degrees, none of them liberal arts, so I have on occasion been exposed to the 'International Standard' system.
Now, take it as a joke or not. Don't care, Junior.
Remember what the crop of choice is in that region. Rice grows in mud.
In 1978, I was a part of the RED HORSE construction squadron in Osan Korea. We excavated a rice paddy down 27 feet in some places to get to solid ground. Then we filled it up with concrete to make a quick turn facility at the end of the runway.
Sorry. I've come across a strong strain of parochialism on these threads when it comes to the use of the International System. There is evidently some branch of conservatism that believes it is somehow "un-American" to work with the metric system. I'm expecting someone one day to propose scrapping all modern measuring systems because they are "anti-Biblical" and proposing we go back to cubits and talents.
Is that the standard cubit or the temple cubit?
And you'd better use the sanctuary shekel, I don't want to get screwed over when weighing my silver.
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OUch! That's going to leave a mark.
Heh... yes, indeed. In the case of this particular bomb, picture half as many bombs in the "stick", but each roughly twice as large. I wonder if the excavated bomb bore any WWII-vintage graffiti. "Suck on THIS, Tojo!" was reportedly a common choice. ;-)
Amelican wolkmaship!
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