NEWS - Nazi bombs lying under our feet

[Jack]

Map shows how more than 1500 Second World War bombs lie beneath our cities, towns and villages.

 

 

Front page folks - click on the HMVF logo!

[Davie]

The Daily / Sunday Mail want to get their facts correct. The article states that the Forth Road Bridge was a target, the building of this bridge did not start untill 1958.

 

I am being pedantic here, but silly mistakes like this really annoy me.

 

Davie.

[john fox]

being cynical, I also can't help but wonder how many of these UXB have actually ever exploded after 40, 50, 60+ years. Sounds like a nice little earner for that company with its high tech finding equipment but all the same so what?

be interesting if there are any such stats available for Germany - I assume they have more UXB than we have in the British Isles

[andreadavide]

Well, sometimes here we get a Brit one....

http://corrieredelmezzogiorno.corriere.it/campania/cronache/articoli/2008/09_Settembre/09/bomba_salerno.shtml

 

Andrea

[Rlangham]

There already is a team looking for UXB's - there's a company who I met in Belgium at a WW1 event who specialise in searching for undetonated explosives, hired in by Railways, building company's etc before they start working on a piece of land. Recently, they've been doing a lot of work in the South of England with unexploded V1 rockets

[AlienFTM]

In 1984 I was stationed in Osnabruck. The married quarters estate started right outside one of the camp gates, so I would lunch at home.

 

One afternoon I got back to the office only to learn that up the street behind me had come a vehicle with a loud-hailer instructing everybody to evacuate to the (I think it was Church Army) recreation centre just inside Imphal Barracks' main gates.

 

It made no difference to me except to pick up wife plus two when all was clear. It turned out that somebody had found an unexploded RAF bomb just across the main road from us, maybe a hundred metres or two away. It was dealt with and removed.

 

It also turned out that the woman upstairs had heard the (not exactly brilliant) loudspeaker and. newly posted in, assumed it was something to do with local (German) elections and went back to her siesta.

 

A couple of weeks later, we heard word that they had found a second unexploded bomb right outside the Estate Warden's office. Fed up with the flak after the recent incident, they just picked up the bomb and disposed of it. The estate office was run by a long-retired ex-infantry warrant officer who thought he was still sergeant major and that everyone ought to jump to his tune. I personally asked myself whether somebody had planted the bomb outside his office deliberately just to irk him.