Posted on 11/03/2013 3:20:47 PM PST by nickcarraway
German authorities safely defused a huge bomb left over from World War II after evacuating large parts of the western city of Dortmund on Sunday.
More than 20,000 people were evacuated from their homes in Dortmund as authorities prepared to take action following the bomb's discovery.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
NIMBY!
Special delivery—it’s a beumb.
I have to wonder, the threads had to be quite corroded after all this time. I would not want the job of getting an old possible armed fuse loose from the fuse well.
Isn’t that from a Quatermass film?
I think those British 4,000 pounders were used in conjunction with incendiaries. Incendiaries didn’t perform well against tile roofs and brick walls. The blockbuster would open up a large area of structures for the incendiaries to fall into and ignite the flammable rubble and exposed interiors of remaining structures.
Don’t spoil it Kroil it!
Yes, it’s the “UXB” at Hobbes End in Quartermass and the Pit (AKA Five Milllion Years to Earth)
That stuff is awesome.
Thanks nickcarraway.
http://www.angelfire.com/ct/ww2europe/stats.html
...80% of Soviet males born in 1923 didn’t survive WWII
...12,000 heavy bombers were shot down in WWII
...Between 1939 and 1945 the Allies dropped 3.4 million tons of bombs... [avg] 27,700 tons of bombs a month
...Over 100,000 Allied bomber crewmen were killed over Europe
http://www.wwiifoundation.org/our-mission/wwii-facts-figures/wwii-aircraft-facts/
On average 6600 American service men died per MONTH, during WWII (about 220 a day).
276,000 aircraft manufactured in the US .
43,000 planes lost overseas, including 23,000 in combat.
14,000 lost in the continental U.S.
The USA would be speaking German right now if the Obama Administration had been in power during those times, overseeing the planning of D-Day!
We’d have been beaten back at Normandy in spite of having the greatest fighting force on EARTH assembled against our enemies.
Obama is Clinton II, and all they touch is damned.
“Other than Pearl Harbor (and Hawaii wasn’t even a state at the time), has the United States ever had bombs dropped on it by enemy aircraft? ...”
Guam, the southernmost island of the Marianas chain (then a US territory under USN administration) was occupied, as was Wake Island.
Dutch Harbor (Aleutian Islands) came under air attack in 1942, just before Japanese forces occupied the islands of Attu and Kiska, further west along the chain.
Submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy shelled spots on the California coast, and a coast defense installation near the mouth of the Columbia River in Oregon.
Floatplanes launched from submarines may have attempted to strike targets along the west coast of CONUS and Canada, but the record isn’t clear about what actually happened.
Did they even make 4000 lb bombs?
Just like in the book...
Yes, and so much more...
Tallboy: 12,000 lbs ttl, 5,200 lbs explosive filler
Grand Slam: 22,000 lbs ttl, 9,136 lbs explosive filler
1) BMW Gmbh, conducts its board meetings in English.
2) The Japanese pilot who bombed Oregon from a aircraft assembled aboard a Japanese submarine offered his sword after the war: the sword is on display in an Oregon war museum.
It is a good thing this 4,000 pound bomb didn't produce urban redevelopment as abruptly as most of its kin.
Lots of bombs still to be found.
10 years ago or so a guy was killed working on the Autobahn. The were widening a strech of road and his construction vehicle set one off.
Took a tour in Exeter, England and the guide used those exact words to explain the reason for all the crappy new architecture.
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