Subdeacon Joe Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 WW2-Era Bomb Unexpectedly Explodes Underground in German Field Jun 26, 2019 Nancy Bilyeau The WW2 bomb exploded underground and produced this result in the German field. BORIS ROESSLER/AFP/Getty Images A bomb dropped during WW2 and buried underground has exploded underneath a German field. A massive pre-dawn blast in a barley field on June 23, 2019, had people fearing it was an earthquake or even a meteor crash. But it turned out that a 500-pound second world war bomb from the 1940s was the culprit, say bomb specialists from the state of Hesse who spent a day studying the site. The 33-foot-wide, 13-foot gouge in the earth was caused by an Allied sortie. No one in the community of Ahlbach, part of the greater area of Limburg which is just north of Frankfurt, was hurt by the blast, but the sound of it woke most people up. “With the former railway depot, we were quite a bomb target at the end of the Second World War,” city spokesman Johannes Laubach told Hessenchau, a German news website. “We can be glad that the farmer was not in the field.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACKFOOT SASS #11947 Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 There is a crop circle that can be explained! Blackfoot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. R. Hugh Kidnme Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 That thing had one very long fuse.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 That is one heck of a time delay fuse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colorado Coffinmaker Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 Took a Licking and kept right on Ticking ........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypress Sun Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 Just in case the Reich lasted as long as Hitler proclaimed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 That has me wondering how many more are still buried and silently counting down. There are some still being found in the UK and German cities and towns, left undiscovered from WWII and there are a couple of huge unexploded mines under former WWI trenches just waiting for the right conditions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 Amazing. All that time and it still hit the road dead center. Like that big meteor crater here in Arizona: darn thing travelled millions of miles and only missed the highway by a couple of hundred yards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 Danger UXB was a great BBC series! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Harley, #14153 Posted November 26, 2019 Share Posted November 26, 2019 I think I’d have shat myself if working the field when that went off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted November 26, 2019 Author Share Posted November 26, 2019 That has me wondering how many more are still buried and silently counting down. There are some still being found in the UK and German cities and towns, left undiscovered from WWII and there are a couple of huge unexploded mines under former WWI trenches just waiting for the right conditions. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ww1-century-bombs/a-century-on-from-ww1-100-years-of-work-remains-to-clear-munitions-idUSKCN1N40TS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_harvest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted November 26, 2019 Share Posted November 26, 2019 Around 2005 a uxb was discovered by our helicopter pilot on a cattle ranch near Lake Okeechobee. Seems that during the War the ranch had been commandeered as a B17 bombing range. Then after hostilities ceased it was given back after the Air Force “cleared “ the property. Eventually it became a State Preserve. The Air Force sent an EOD guy out and he checked the markings and serial number to see if it was a dummy practice bomb. It wasn’t. He put a charge on it and we backed off about a mile in the chopper. Boom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc X Posted November 27, 2019 Share Posted November 27, 2019 I saw where the WWII liberty ship S.S. Richard Montgomery is still sitting on the bottom of the Thames river with 3 1/2 thousand tons of unexploded ordinance aboard. She grounded and could not be towed free, later breaking in half as part of her cargo was unloaded. She still sits there today with her masts sticking out of the water in the London shipping channel. They say it's safer to leave her alone than try to unload the remaining 3 1/2 thousand tons of explosives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP1kq9H7TYg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted November 27, 2019 Share Posted November 27, 2019 I saw where the WWII liberty ship S.S. Richard Montgomery is still sitting on the bottom of the Thames river with 3 1/2 thousand tons of unexploded ordinance aboard. She grounded and could not be towed free, later breaking in half as part of her cargo was unloaded. She still sits there today with her masts sticking out of the water in the London shipping channel. They say it's safer to leave her alone than try to unload the remaining 3 1/2 thousand tons of explosives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP1kq9H7TYg Well they could enclose her in concrete like the Chernobyl reactor. If that sucker ever blows it’ll turn the Thames into a whopper of a lake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted November 28, 2019 Author Share Posted November 28, 2019 Well they could enclose her in concrete like the Chernobyl reactor. If that sucker ever blows it’ll turn the Thames into a whopper of a lake. Man! That would add a lot of shrapnel to it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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