Mass evacuation for bomb removal

[Ugarte]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/7318709.stm

A German Luftwaffe pilot is to apologise to an English city he bombed during World War II.

Willi Schludecker, 87, flew in raids over Bath in the so-called Baedeker Blitz of April 1942 and went on to become one of Germany's top pilots.

Probably way fftopic: but, this German pilot shot down this famous writer of children's books. Regrets it.

I'm just saying.

Mark
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[Story]

Probably way fftopic: but,
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Nah... lol
http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=724

 

[Warden]

Look, another one!

See BBC news report here

Harry

 

[Story]

WWII bombs pose danger to German coast
Published: 1 Apr 08 15:00 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/11029/

At least 115 deaths and 35 serious injuries have been caused by leftover bombs and munitions from the Second and First World War off of Germany's North Sea coast since 1945, according to marine biologist Stefan Nehring in Koblenz.

Nehring, who presented a study on has unexploded military ordinance off Germany's Baltic Sea in late 2007, criticized the government's lack of public information on the country's dangerous war legacy on Tuesday.

British and American bombers dropped almost 2.7 million tonnes of bombs on Germany during WWII. Many missed their targets and did not go off, a buried threat that affects construction, forestry, farming and fisheries. Bomb cleanup remains a task throughout Germany, and large bombs are periodically discovered at construction sites.

 

[Story]

New map reveals locations of unexploded World War Two bombs

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...ations-of-unexploded-World-War-Two-bombs.html

Up to one in ten bombs dropped by the German Luftwaffe failed to detonate leaving a deadly legacy which still lies under the nation's streets and fields.

The new map will be used by builders to tell them the risks from unexploded bombs where they are working. Members of the public will also be able to access the map, which identifies 21,000 locations where there could be unexploded bombs.

Experts have studied aerial photographs taken by the RAF after the war and maps created by insurance companies to assess the extent of the bombing damage.

 

[cmjordan77]

Camp Croft Leftover ordanence

Hi,
I live near CAMP Croft which is located in Spartanburg South Carolina. There is so much left over ordanence there that Engineers that are starting the cleanup said it will take to year 2035 to have it fully cleaned. A fire started a few weeks ago, and bulldozers were called in. They were building a fire wall and unearthed alot of WWII Rockets, and gernades, LIVE! There are numerous Live rounds, gernades, rockets, mortars found. There are also DUMMY rounds found, but I would hate to be someone who found a round and thought it was a dummy and it was live. I also knew a friend whos grandfather used to bulldoze around Camp Croft. He scraped up a 81 mm mortar LIVE, and kept it for YEARS on a shelf in his den. Never thought too much of it. The wires were on it and everything, I actually saw it. I convinced him years ago to turn it in to the local Police for disposal. Those things are too dangerous. I read about a guy in Germany who was an expert at Demilling those things. Well, one day he was working in his garage, and about 1 hour later, he and his garage were gone (blown to bits).

 

[Story]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/7318709.stm

A German Luftwaffe pilot is to apologise to an English city he bombed during World War II.

Willi Schludecker, 87, flew in raids over Bath in the so-called Baedeker Blitz of April 1942 and went on to become one of Germany's top pilots.

A former Luftwaffe pilot who carried out 120 bombing raids on England has escaped unharmed after a plane crash near the city he once targeted for destruction.

Willi Schludecker, 88 - a survivor of nine wartime air crashes - was a passenger in a four-man Mooney M20T when the engine failed soon after take-off at Marshfield in Wiltshire.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ies-say-sorry-city-bombed--crashes-field.html

 

[Warden]

Now thats something you don't see every day.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/7607643.stm

Harry

 

[Story]

PANTAI REMIS: A live World War II bomb, apparently used for years by unsuspecting villagers as a tool sharpener and even a dumbbell, has finally been destroyed.
:eusa_doh:
Not only that, much to the relief of villager Kamarudin Johari, yesterday’s detonation only damaged three floorboards in his house.

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/9/12/nation/2008478&sec=nation

 

[Warden]

All I find is the odd penny in the street.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/humber/7896337.stm

 

[H.Johnson]

I was at a meeting at Coventry University last March when an unexploded 50Kg. WW2 German bomb was found on a building site, left over from operation 'Moonlight Sonata'. The university building was evacuated and the whole city centre was cordoned off for the whole day.

Rather than move it, a decision was made to bury the bomb on site and detonate it. Quite a bang!

Knowing the type of bomb, the authorities decided that there would probably not be more of them to be found but no-one was guaranteeing it! I visited Coventry on Monday to examine a PhD student. They were still working on the construction and I walked past rather more quickly than usual...

http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/ne...objectid=20622185&siteid=92746-name_page.html

 

[Warden]

A follow up to this story to the hand grenade

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/humber/7896748.stm

 

[Warden]

Builders working at the home of former Hi-De-Hi star Barry Howard found a Second World War incendiary device hidden above his bedroom.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/6593067.stm

Harry

 

[Warden]

Three men have been blown up and killed after trying to saw through a shell left over from the Vietnam war.

See news story here

Harry

 

[Warden]

What ho gang

Another simular story, this time from the Isle of Man

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/isle_of_man/8502934.stm

 

[Sgt Brown]

A friend of mine was head of the Franklin County (Columbus, OH, USA) Bomb Squad. Each year they would take all ordnance, leftovers, etc., in their possession to a secluded spot and detonate it. Fun and games for all involved. Anyhow, they went to a distant abandoned railroad siding, buried the explosives, withdrew to a safe distance and detonated it. All were flattened by a MUCH larger explosion than even these experts expected. Later research discovered that, during the war, a train had derailed at that location and some naval torpedoes had ended up being just dozed-over and buried. The bomb squad's little 20 pounds of whatever set off X00 pounds of Torpex. Happily, other than creating a huge crater, damage was limited to brown stains in a number of pair of underwear!

Sarge

 

[Warden]

There is a lot of water in this video clip

See BBC news report

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8563463.stm

 

[Warden]

It is amazing who is affected by these bombs

Rockers Ac/Dc's controversial Austrian concert in May is facing a further setback - government officials have warned that unexploded World War II bombs at the site pose a threat to the 80,000-strong audience.

See News Report

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/1/20100319/ten-ac-dc-show-threatened-by-war-bombs-c60bd6d.html

Toodle Loo

Harry

 

[Warden]

German WW2 bombs have been found in Hull before, but this is a new one on me.

All I find in my house is junk.

It was used in the Second World War and was buried for 65 years in the centre of Hull, until now.

A German Luger gun, which dates back to 1943, has been discovered by a construction worker at a building site on Storey Street in Hull.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/humberside/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8944000/8944280.stm

 

[H.Johnson]

A friend has just booked an ornithological camping holiday on the island of Heligoland, just off the German coast. He'd never heard of the estimated 3.2 Kiloton* 'Big Bang' in 1947 when the Royal Navy disposed of around 4000 tons of old German bombs (and lots of disused U-boat pens), nor did he realise that Heligoland probably once held more unexploded ordnance than anywhere in Europe...and perhaps still does!

I told him to be careful where he puts his tent pegs...

* Calculated, in Willmore, P.L. (1949,) Seismic Experiments on the North German Explosions, 1946 to 1947. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences (1934-1990) 242 (843). Pp. 123 -151.