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Title: American WWII bomb found at Schiphol
Post by: DaCoon on August 29, 2012, 09:21:30 AM: Wow 70yrs later and they're still finding 'em.....

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/29/13543423-unexploded-wwii-bomb-disrupts-amsterdam-schiphol-airport?lite
Title: Re: American WWII bomb found at Schiphol
Post by: zack1234 on August 29, 2012, 09:27:43 AM: A couple of years ago the RAF gave the Germans copies of photo recon of bombing raids to highlight unexploded bombs, you can clearly see UXB's. :old:

They found a Grandslam bomb still live near one if their dams :old:
Title: Re: American WWII bomb found at Schiphol
Post by: DaCoon on August 29, 2012, 09:29:23 AM: good thing that one didn't pop......that would be a major disaster
Title: Re: American WWII bomb found at Schiphol
Post by: cpxxx on August 29, 2012, 10:18:40 AM: Most European militaries still have full time personnel doing nothing else except cleaning up after both wars. It would be ironic to get killed by WW2 today after all this time. But it does happen.
Title: Re: American WWII bomb found at Schiphol
Post by: Slate on August 29, 2012, 12:00:50 PM: Watch the video at the bottom of the link of them exploding a 550 lb bomb in Munich. :O
Title: Re: American WWII bomb found at Schiphol
Post by: DaCoon on August 29, 2012, 12:28:50 PM: It would definately suck to killed 70yrs later. But on the upside.....you probably never knew it happened
Title: Re: American WWII bomb found at Schiphol
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on August 29, 2012, 01:53:45 PM: Also 1.5 TON mortar round uncovered in Warsaw: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/28/us-poland-bomb-wwii-idUSBRE87R0V020120828
Title: Re: American WWII bomb found at Schiphol
Post by: MarineUS on August 29, 2012, 09:36:48 PM: There's a video somewhere of them actually detonating one that was found in a river. Pretty neat IMHO.
Title: Re: American WWII bomb found at Schiphol
Post by: Masherbrum on August 29, 2012, 09:42:26 PM: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11547964 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11547964)

Here you go Marine.
Title: Re: American WWII bomb found at Schiphol
Post by: DaCoon on August 29, 2012, 09:44:52 PM: saw video of emergency personnel detonating a tanker full of isobutane. it crashed here in town and instead of "wasting" time and effort to transfer the load to another trailer (which is unsafe not to mention illegal) on the roadway, they came to the decision to blow it. pretty frickin awesome looking I thought.
Title: Re: American WWII bomb found at Schiphol
Post by: MarineUS on August 29, 2012, 10:06:40 PM: Quote from: Masherbrum on August 29, 2012, 09:42:26 PM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11547964 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11547964)

Here you go Marine.
That's it. LOL!!! At :20 look at the bottom left. Little guy takes off running on the water. xD

But yeah....nine tons of straw on top of it and it was still that big. Wonder what it would have looked like without it. :t
Title: Re: American WWII bomb found at Schiphol
Post by: Meatwad on August 29, 2012, 10:30:57 PM: Quote from: DaCoon on August 29, 2012, 09:44:52 PM
saw video of emergency personnel detonating a tanker full of isobutane. it crashed here in town and instead of "wasting" time and effort to transfer the load to another trailer (which is unsafe not to mention illegal) on the roadway, they came to the decision to blow it. pretty frickin awesome looking I thought.

DOH! (Brain fart moment)