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Offline FiLtH

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Re: WWII river bomb successfully detonated.
« Reply #15 on: October 16, 2010, 09:38:47 PM »
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Re: WWII river bomb successfully detonated.
« Reply #16 on: October 17, 2010, 04:31:17 AM »
They find undetonated bombs down there almost weekly still. You guys hauled in so many that all of them will never be found. There surely are still several apartment complexes sitting on top of undetonated ww2 bombs. They're usually found when doing excavations for repairs.
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Re: WWII river bomb successfully detonated.
« Reply #17 on: October 17, 2010, 05:38:48 AM »
Interesting subject!

Here's a few pics of a SC500 (That German 500kg general purpose bomb found also from AH) going off in Liperi, Finland two years ago. The bombs (2x250kg + 2x500kg) were in shallow lake at a charshed site of a Finnish Airforce Ju-88. It crashed there during the summer of '44 after ending up in a prop wake of a another Ju-88 as the formation was climbing to the target.









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Re: WWII river bomb successfully detonated.
« Reply #18 on: October 17, 2010, 10:47:59 AM »
That's crazy. They still find and dispose of Civil War era ordinance once in a while. Scary to think about that.

seldom somebody is killed by one.  I wonder how they found that WWII bomb?
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