German disposal experts have detonated two unexploded bombs from World War II that were discovered in the western city of Dortmund. Some 14,000 residents were ordered to leave their homes for the operation.I don't buy that they were 550lb bombs. They were 500lb bombs. Neither the Brits nor the Americans did metric shit during the Second World War.
Two 250-kilogram (550-pound) bombs were safely defused in Dortmund's southwest on Sunday following a large-scale evacuation and the closure of the city's main train station.
The city administration said earlier that special disposal teams had discovered four suspected bombs from World War II in the densely populated Klinikviertel (clinic quarter). But substrata searches of the area confirmed that two of the objects were not explosives.
The other two devices — an American bomb and a British bomb — were successfully detonated on Sunday afternoon.
Monday, January 13, 2020
UXB: The Gift that Keeps on Giving
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That'll teach them Krauts not to bomb Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor?
Forget it. He’s rolling.
(Sorry, just had to)
Dale
He's channeling Belushi, Dave...;-)
Yea, but a 227.27 kg bomb doesn’t trip off the tongue like 250 kg. The German public is the likely topic of the original story from Deutsche Welle, so a little license was taken for relatability?
Take it from and old redleg artilleryman. Chisel and a ball peen hammer will defuse them. Just don't send anyone whose who has a critical job.
Edit as I recall the EOD Gus I knew drank a lot.
Guys GUYs not enough coffee yet.
Just don't send anyone whose who has a critical job.
Or who owes you money.
Brings back the memories of sitting down to watch “Danger UXB” on the local PBS station in 1981. That was a commitment, 13 weeks, no VCR, no repeats...smashing series.
Yes Center, great show. Bet those 1940 luftwaffe bombs be pretty puny compared with Berlin's buried blockbusters dropped by 'Bomber' Harris's RAF late in the war.
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