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jeffcat · Mar 23, 2015

Msnbc for your web page, says that they just found another UXB in south London. The article says they find about one every year. Fun fun

Steve in VA · Mar 23, 2015

Read an article on the French bomb disposal on-going from both WWI and WWII. Farmers keep turning them up and stack them along the lane. A special crew drives around picking-up all this old ordinance. Wow.

ObsoElitist · Mar 23, 2015

I grew up near NAS Miramar (top gun), now owned by Marines. The area also was once Camp Elliot, one of the places Patton trained and the Army Rangers were started. 1 or 2 kids a year would blow themselves up when erosion uncovered unexploded mortars or shells. We wouldnt touch those but found lots of small arms ammo and a case of rifle grease in tiny containers. Mom used to call the cops whenever we brought home something cool., but dad liked the grease.

HughB · Mar 23, 2015

My Father was born on Wandle rd, Wandsworth. That is a suburb of London. Wandle Road is one long block of homes built in the 1850s. Their home escaped but half the block was destroyed. You can see how the strings of bombs dropped. They would hit a home and skip several due to the speed of the plane. Today you see newer homes every so often in the midst of older homes on many streets. Those are the ones that where hit.

farmerwithmutt · Mar 23, 2015

Worked in a saw mill and they bought lumber off Indian reservation and we always found spent ammunition in them .There was boxes full of bits and pieces never gave it a thought until I read a story about a saw mill out east that found a unexploded shell from the civil war in a tree they were cutting fortunately they didn't hit it with the blade.makes you wonder ever time you fire up the chain saw

notjustair · Mar 23, 2015

I saw a show on this on PBS. It was very interesting. It is literally a full time job for several guys.

wisbaker · Mar 23, 2015

I was Us Air Force EOD (explosive ordinance disposal) When I was stationed at McDill about once a month someone who was stationed there during WW II would show up at the front gate and claim he was made to bury ordinance on base and we'd have to go look for the stuff. And since I was stationed there in the 1990's seemed about once every month or so we'd get a call from the Hillsborough County bomb squad telling us about stuff they found in a garage of a recently deceased WWII vet, they'd ask us about it but frankly they usually knew more about it than we did.

Bob Harvey · Mar 23, 2015

As I understand it, there are still hundreds of thousands of land mines 'out there' -Kosovo, S.E Asia etc. --scary.

CGID · Mar 23, 2015

It's hard to believe, but in France and Belgium around 900 tons surface or are dug up every year and this has been going on since 1919. Every once-in-a-while, a farmer in France or Belgium gets killed plowing up an unexploded shell from WWI or WWII.

black · Mar 23, 2015

I have a dutch chum who brought home nice shinny detonater from ww2 when he was a kid back in the old country. He started tapping with it not know what is was , and blew his hand clean off .

Larry --ont.

JRSutton · Mar 23, 2015

Lots of signs on some of the beaches on Martha's Vineyard.

They explain how that section of the island used to be used for bombing practice during WWII.

They also strongly suggest you don't dig in the sand.

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NCWayne · Mar 23, 2015

Friend of ours used to manage a scrap yard that had a shredder. He said they would often get an old pickup, from some farmer that had passed, and run it through the shredder. He said he lost count of the times the old truck had an old stick of dynamite that had been left/lost in it somewhere. When it went into the shredder/hammer mill he said it would shake the whole machine, and rattle the windows in the area, when the dynamite went off from

gtractorfan · Mar 24, 2015

Now that would be cool. Like the old trucks are fighting back!

wisbaker · Mar 24, 2015

BDU- (Bomb Dummy Unit) harmless unless the spotting charge didn't go off. The spotting charge was big enough to ruin your day but not mess you up to bad. "Lost" one while I was an accountable officer, it got taken to a meeting as a visual aid to address a concern some off the gorillas had about procedure (loading, verifying, flying, dropping), as some of the Birds were having a problem understanding the concepts (yet the'd all been flying BUFFS for 15+ years) the Wing King saw it and we didn't get it back. Wonder if my successor ever figured out what the supply detail was with one item at the Wing Headquarters was?

Billy NY · Mar 24, 2015

If you click on the link below, go to precisely 39:30 of the episode,(Discovery- "Fire In The Hole")

You can see the detonation of a 250lb bomb. Unreal, I've seen hundreds of lbs of explosives detonated under a dozen + blasting mats, face blasts in quarries, unbelievable what happens when something is detonated in the open, can't believe the windows did not shatter in that nearby building. The video certainly captures the blast of something like that, I'd hate to stumble upon one of these. They ended up handling it and hauling it to the site where it was detonated, after identifying that it could be done, you'd be paying a handsome sum to do that kind of work if that were me LOL !
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