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2012-08-29 Europe

Controlled detonation for real big WWII bomb found in Munich

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Posted by European Conservative 2012-08-29 00:10|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Only hidden for a decade? B-2 drop it in 2002?

Posted by gromky 2012-08-29 07:43|| 2012-08-29 07:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Also today, Amsterdam's Schiphol airport evacuated over 'WWII bomb'.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2012-08-29 07:51|| 2012-08-29 07:51|| Front Page Top

#3 As if the traffic in Munich were not bad enough.

Posted by Besoeker 2012-08-29 08:01|| 2012-08-29 08:01|| Front Page Top

#4 We live in such a world today that in the video they have to label it an 'aerial bomb'.

Posted by Procopius2k 2012-08-29 08:45|| 2012-08-29 08:45|| Front Page Top

#5 The must mean a 500 lb general purpose bomb (225 Kg). We did not make a 550 lb bomb in WW2.

Posted by Frozen Al 2012-08-29 11:06|| 2012-08-29 11:06|| Front Page Top

#6 "Aerial bomb" is a literal translation of "Fliegerbombe" (hidden since 1945, of course).

It was a mean one, meant to detonate hours or even days after the attack. Given the density of population in that area, it might well have killed hundreds. We were lucky. People have been dancing on that bomb for decades. It was located one meter under the surface.

Posted by European Conservative 2012-08-29 12:50|| 2012-08-29 12:50|| Front Page Top

#7 It was reported to be a 250kg bomb

Posted by European Conservative 2012-08-29 12:52|| 2012-08-29 12:52|| Front Page Top

#8 A 1.5-tonne mortar bomb probably fired by Nazi forces was also safely removed from the Polish capital, Warsaw.

From AH 9418's link. Is there a bomb amnesty program running?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2012-08-29 13:03|| 2012-08-29 13:03|| Front Page Top

#9 Actually they find them all the time. The Munich bomb was a bit different because it had to be detonated in a densely populated area.

Posted by European Conservative 2012-08-29 13:16|| 2012-08-29 13:16|| Front Page Top

#10 Obviously that bomb was drunk.

Posted by Charles 2012-08-29 14:16|| 2012-08-29 14:16|| Front Page Top

#11 And the guests in that place were usually bombed

Posted by European Conservative 2012-08-29 16:12|| 2012-08-29 16:12|| Front Page Top

#12 "Aerial bomb" is a literal translation of "Fliegerbombe" (hidden since 1945, of course).

Yes. But bombe would work just as well, if there weren't so much of the local delivery kind in our world today.

And yes again, the 8th Army Air Force, a gift that keeps on giving, with an occasional surprise left by the RAF.

Posted by Procopius2k 2012-08-29 17:11|| 2012-08-29 17:11|| Front Page Top

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