I think there are more places we have them from training for one reason or another. I think I’ve seen warnings for them in Eastern Joshua Tree and near Camp Hale in Colorado. Also, the Colorado DOT leaves unexploded avalanche bomb duds out there every year.
WW2 bomb goes off in German corn field
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I think there are more places we have them from training for one reason or another. I think I’ve seen warnings for them in Eastern Joshua Tree and near Camp Hale in Colorado. Also, the Colorado DOT leaves unexploded avalanche bomb duds out there every year.
Link shows where the Fu-Go bombs have been found in US
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=969d59cf9319476b97a8a5a8941bfde6
Yup, definitely not 'merican. If it was from the red white and blue it would've covered an entire city block or more.Here is a ground level picture for scale.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a28170164/crater-germany-world-war-ii/
When we visited Normandy a few years back, we took a D-Day tour. The tour guide said about once a month a few of them will go out into the fields and try to find WW2 artifacts. They've even come across human remains and he described the whole process they have to go through when this happens.
A few interesting pictures of WWI battlefields over a hundred years later
https://io9.gizmodo.com/sobering-images-show-famous-world-war-i-battle-sites-a-1581624280
The first aerial pic, then Verdun and the Lochnager crater are all pretty sobering.
https://io9.gizmodo.com/sobering-images-show-famous-world-war-i-battle-sites-a-1581624280
The first aerial pic, then Verdun and the Lochnager crater are all pretty sobering.
Field just got aerated... Good for the microbes and dirt and stuff.
In other news, corn hit $10 a bushel due to a newly-predicted shortage in Germany.....
That's a firecracker compared to this:
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18587608
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18587608
There was a farmer that hit a natural gas line in IL a couple of years ago. Farmer was putting in a tile line and had a rep for the gas line company there to make sure they were all clear. I guess the tiling machine hit something, but the gas rep said that it was a rock or something and put tractor on front of the machine to help pull it through, unfortunately it was the gas line and the rep, farmer and the farmer's son perished in the explosion.
That is not even counting the artillery shells from Dubya Dubya One and Two.
Plus there is this whole thing...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151027-the-ticking-time-bomb-of-the-thames
The ship lies just 1.5 miles (2.4km) from shore in the mouth of the bustling Thames estuary. Clearly visible from the land – its rusting masts rising ominously from the water – the sunken vessel contains disturbing cargo: 1,400 tonnes of high explosives which many fear could go off at any time, potentially causing one of the most devastating non-nuclear peace-time explosions ever seen [...] However, estimates paint a worrying picture. According to a survey carried out in 2000 by the UK government’s Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), the ship likely contains a staggering assortment of more than 9,000 US-made explosives. These include 286 giant 2,000lb ‘blockbuster’ bombs, 4,439 1,000lb devices and – perhaps most worryingly of all – more than 2,500 cluster bombs. Unlike most of the other items on board, cluster bombs would have been transported with their fuses in place, leaving them more prone to detonation.
I say set if off for the 4th of July.
Damn. Make me feel lucky, I hit a gas line in my yard with a skid loader. Luckily it didn't explode but I got everyone out of the house, called the fire department and alliant came to fix it. I was expecting a fine or something but nope nothing.
Heck yeah. Remind those bloody limeys who is in charge.
No one Brexit's harder than the US.
