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4,000-Pound, World War II Bomb Forces Mass Evacuation in Germany
CBS News ^
| November 3, 2013
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.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany
KEYWORDS: dortmund; germany; ordinance; worldwareleven; worldwarii
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To: nickcarraway
This is a great time for Barry and Christie to get over there and walk through the town arm in arm. Barry can shake his Nobel “Peace” Prize medal over the bomb and then run around it three times in a clockwise direction. Magic!
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posted on
11/03/2013 3:23:33 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(All your health decisions should be between a provider bean counter and the IRS - Obama)
To: nickcarraway
If it weren’t for the war, these ingrates would be speaking German now.
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posted on
11/03/2013 3:24:05 PM PST
by
null and void
(I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
To: nickcarraway
The bomb outlived Bomber Harris.
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posted on
11/03/2013 3:24:36 PM PST
by
MUDDOG
To: nickcarraway
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?
I don't think 9/11 technically counts as our own airplanes were used as bombs.
To: null and void
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posted on
11/03/2013 3:26:39 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: MUDDOG
The bomb outlived Bomber Harris.Lucky bomb, he'd probably be ticked it didn't blow a bunch of Jerries to smithereens.
To: SamAdams76
It think only if you count the Japanese balloon bombs.
To: SamAdams76
Maybe during the Aleutian campaign during WW2. And then there were those balloon-bombs the Japanese experimented with . . . and supposedly the Nazis were working on a long-range bomber but never fielded it.
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posted on
11/03/2013 3:30:04 PM PST
by
1rudeboy
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
11/03/2013 3:30:38 PM PST
by
null and void
(I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
To: SamAdams76
In addition to the balloon bombs mentioned Japan bombed the Oregon coast twice with bombs dropped from a plane assembled and launched from a submarine. They hoped to start forest fires that would terrorize the nation but didn’t take the soggy Oregon forest into proper consideration.
To: null and void
Nah...they’d probably be speaking Austrian.
To: MUDDOG
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posted on
11/03/2013 3:37:54 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: nickcarraway
I wouldn’t trust that thing even after they de-fuzed it.
If it hadn’t ‘sploded yet, it probly never will. But I could be wrong.
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posted on
11/03/2013 3:39:07 PM PST
by
Delta 21
(Oh Crap !! Did I say that out loud ??!??)
To: driftless2
Nah...theyd probably be speaking Austrian.
Farci
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posted on
11/03/2013 3:41:58 PM PST
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: driftless2
*ouch* Much better. Germany didn't spike and fall until it had a foreign-born leader.
Good thing that would never happen here...
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posted on
11/03/2013 3:42:49 PM PST
by
null and void
(I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
To: null and void
To: dfwgator
I never saw that show. I did like some of the other British PBS imports.
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posted on
11/03/2013 3:44:05 PM PST
by
MUDDOG
To: nickcarraway
Shhh! These blockbuster bombs don't go off
unless you hit them juuuuuuuuust right.
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posted on
11/03/2013 3:45:52 PM PST
by
Rodamala
To: zot
The 1942-45 RAF/USAAF urban redevelopment plan for Germany still producing results.
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posted on
11/03/2013 3:45:56 PM PST
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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