4,000-Pound, World War II Bomb Forces Mass Evacuation in Germany

CBS News ^ | November 3, 2013

[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.

[FlingWingFlyer]

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!

[null and void]

If it weren’t for the war, these ingrates would be speaking German now.

[MUDDOG]

The bomb outlived Bomber Harris.

[SamAdams76]

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.

[BenLurkin]

http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/saywhat.wav

[Tijeras_Slim]

The bomb outlived Bomber Harris.

Lucky bomb, he'd probably be ticked it didn't blow a bunch of Jerries to smithereens.

[Tijeras_Slim]

It think only if you count the Japanese balloon bombs.

[1rudeboy]

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.

[null and void]

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[FourtySeven]

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.

[driftless2]

Nah...they’d probably be speaking Austrian.

[dfwgator]

Danger, UXB.

[Delta 21]

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.

[mountainlion]

Nah...they’d probably be speaking Austrian.

Farci

[null and void]

*ouch* Much better. Germany didn't spike and fall until it had a foreign-born leader.

Good thing that would never happen here...

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

LOL!!!

[MUDDOG]

I never saw that show. I did like some of the other British PBS imports.

[Rodamala]

Shhh! These blockbuster bombs don't go off
unless you hit them juuuuuuuuust right.

[GreyFriar]

The 1942-45 RAF/USAAF urban redevelopment plan for Germany still producing results.