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American bomb in my hometown!

markthefixer said:
beat me by 7 minutes!!!

explosive ordnance disposal service (KMBD)

as opposed to

ammunition Rescue service (MBD)

Thank You Wikipedia and Google translate!!

And THIS is my 19,000 post!!!
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Well then , u da bomb too !! :D

How in the world did they find that bomb ? Metal detectors ?
 
Had a friend who's father started farming in Costa Rico.
The boarders get lined with land mines.
They turn cattle loose before they try to farm it.
Sometimes they have a BBQ too.
 
zebra03 said:
Well then , u da bomb too !! :D

How in the world did they find that bomb ? Metal detectors ?
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As I mentioned above - via GPS - and old arial fotos. I think that they get this foto material from the former Allies.

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I got the reason now. New flood protection measures are planned here - the Kinzig river is just behind the scenery.
 
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Around here you're supposed to call the gas company before you dig, but not the bomb squad usually.

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Looks like they dug a bomb crater just to get at it. I wonder if the hole was designed to minimize damage if it did go off. I think that shape would minimize shock transmission through the earth to surrounding structures.
 
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First episode first series of "James May's Man Lab" had a segment on disarming found bombs (don't try this at home)

Of course that was a German bomb found in G. B. so disarming procedures procedures will likely be different (seriously... Don't try this at home)
 
gadget73 said:
I understand they still turn up unexploded ordnance from WW1 in France and other parts of Europe. Thats the problem with this sort of stuff, such a large number of it was used and not all of it went bang. Nobody knows where it all is, so it shows up many many years after the fact. Occasionally it even kills someone, a tragic after-shock of the original terrible events that caused it to be there.
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indeed...ww1 being a pretty static war,the old battlefields if not purposely cleaned up are simply littered with all manner of UXO and other artifacts,thousands of people went missing and were never found,nobody gave any thought to shells that were fired off by the thousands or other ordinance lost or just discarded...farmers turn up old shells in their fields regularly enough that collecting and disposing of it is still a going concern nearly 100 years later.

they find the odd shell even here where i live in north america,as a major shipping port to Europe in both wars a great deal of ammunition was shipped through here and there were two major events,the Halifax Explosion in 1917 when a loaded munitions ship blew and destroyed half the city, and in ww2 an explosion at the naval magazine,as well as who knows how many forgotten incidents of cargo lost off the dock or over the side..it's not common,but relics from the war years do turn up from time to time even tho there was never any combat here...thanks to most of it being in the water for years and a wet and highly corrosive climate even on land,most are highly corroded,water logged and unlikely to go off...but they still have to treat these things as deadly serious when found
 
One advantage of Google earth and such is that they have made it easier to find such things. I read that they have started to cross-index that with old reconnaissance photos. My uncle in Britain was assigned to defusing such bombs and suffered PTSD. Please pray for peace.
 
I live near an old WWll training area. The ground is so full of left over boom toys they had to make it a wildlife sanctuary. Signs everywhere, " no digging of any kind". Some years back a friend was backhoeing for a sub division next to the area and dug up a case of old pineapple grenades. I guess they didn't always train in the designated area. :D it didn't stop them from building the homes though. :no:
 
Thank goodness nobody was hurt! Chris, I would get a metal detector, before you start digging in your garden or anywhere around your house. Better safe than sorry! Thanks for the history about your town, interesting.
 
Steve, thank you for your advice, but I am convinced that it is very unlikely that I have a dangerous garden.
 
I suppose that the actual destination - I hope destination is the correct term in this context - was the track of the Black Forest Railway which is about 30 meters/90 feet away from the site where the bomb was found.
 
I did construction management for the US Army, Air Force and NATO in Germany for 8 years and we came across unexploded ordnance fairly frequently. In some cases, we were building on US military bases that were German bases (and even munition storage sites) all the way back to WWI. When we found stuff, we would call in the German Sprengkommando (EOD/bomb squad) to deal with it.
 
gadget73 said:
I understand they still turn up unexploded ordnance from WW1 in France and other parts of Europe. Thats the problem with this sort of stuff, such a large number of it was used and not all of it went bang. Nobody knows where it all is, so it shows up many many years after the fact. Occasionally it even kills someone, a tragic after-shock of the original terrible events that caused it to be there.
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Yeah, still lots of stuff out there from the Great War. Artillery was used to an extent not seen since and because of the static lines some places were saturated with shell fire: one historian figured that during the battle of Verdun enough shells were fired to hit every square yard of the battlefield three times.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_harvest

Not only that, several of the giant mines the Brits tunneled under the German lines didn't explode and still sit under the Belgian and French countrysides, full of tons of high explosives.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VxG12ZYm3Q8

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PgknCbX3U4k
 
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In 2010 a deactivation of a bomb in Göttingen/Germany ended in a tragedy, three people lost their lives.
 

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