WW II bomb kills three in Germany
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Re: WW II bomb kills three in Germany
When they were building an extension of the subway in Frankfurt, a 2000 pound bomb detonated. The hole was so big, they decided to create a shopping area in the subway stop. I would bet that there are a lot more in Former East Germany just waiting to explode.
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Re: WW II bomb kills three in Germany
I forget whether it is the French or the Belgies that have lost the equivalent of a light battalion of EOD techs since WW2 - some 500 to 600+, averages ten per annum.
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Re: WW II bomb kills three in Germany
Huh......why try to defuse a bomb that has been sitting around in an unknown enviroment for that long !!?????
Why not just clear out the area and blow the darn thing in place ?![Rolling eyes :roll:](./images/smilies/o_icon_rolleyes.gif)
Why not just clear out the area and blow the darn thing in place ?
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Re: WW II bomb kills three in Germany
and have the resulting explosion level a city block? Remember, we were dropping these things on the cities, not the farms.RANGER513 wrote:Huh......why try to defuse a bomb that has been sitting around in an unknown enviroment for that long !!?????
Why not just clear out the area and blow the darn thing in place ?
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Re: WW II bomb kills three in Germany
I wonder how much the US is going to pay the germans for the damage. I expect Obama, to come on tv and apologize for our war atrocities momentarily.
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Re: WW II bomb kills three in Germany
. wrote:America - SO fucking badass we drop bombs that kill people in the future.
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Re: WW II bomb kills three in Germany
The following is taken from the news article:dbmtrman wrote:I wonder how much the US is going to pay the germans for the damage. I expect Obama, to come on tv and apologize for our war atrocities momentarily.
"In the whole of Germany, more than 2,000 tons of American and British aerial bombs and all sorts of munitions ranging from German hand grenades and tank mines to Russian artillery shells are recovered every year."
They are still taking it from themselves and the Russians too. War is Hell, living in an active munitions field is hazardous to you health.
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I just spit coffee all over myself.. wrote:America - SO fucking badass we drop bombs that kill people in the future.
Team America....Fuck yeah.
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Re: WW II bomb kills three in Germany
Just remember, they brought it on themselves. They are still receiving the dividends of the investments they made in trying to blow every country in Europe and beyond to Kingdom Come.al_2ndWolfhounds wrote:The following is taken from the news article:dbmtrman wrote:I wonder how much the US is going to pay the germans for the damage. I expect Obama, to come on tv and apologize for our war atrocities momentarily.
"In the whole of Germany, more than 2,000 tons of American and British aerial bombs and all sorts of munitions ranging from German hand grenades and tank mines to Russian artillery shells are recovered every year."
They are still taking it from themselves and the Russians too. War is Hell, living in an active munitions field is hazardous to you health.
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Re: WW II bomb kills three in Germany
I read an article years ago, maybe in American Heritage, about France's annual "harvest of iron", unexploded WWI artillery shells dug up inadvertently by farmers plowing their fields every spring. That EOD bureaucracy is supposed to be the most dangerous government job in France.K.Ingraham wrote:I forget whether it is the French or the Belgies that have lost the equivalent of a light battalion of EOD techs since WW2 - some 500 to 600+, averages ten per annum.
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Noise ordinances?RANGER513 wrote:Huh......why try to defuse a bomb that has been sitting around in an unknown enviroment for that long !!?????
Why not just clear out the area and blow the darn thing in place ?
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