The war that keeps giving.
The Daily Telegraph tells that a German bomb disposal unit was called to the scene in Goettingen Tuesday. Their job was to dismantle an American bomb left over from WWII, which construction workers had just found buried 24 feet below the ground.
Just an hour before experts were scheduled to dismantle the 1000-pound device, the bomb exploded. Sixty five years after the war the Allied bomb killed three and injured three others. Additionally the bomb was responsible for blowing the fronts off several houses.
This is a serious matter. The Daily Telegraph reports that over 2,000 tons of U.S and British aerial bombs are found each year in Germany. Hans-Juergen Weise, a former bomb disposal expert, explains that the danger posed by these bombs is increasing – as the decades-old detonators begin to rot with age. “One day,” he warns, “such bombs will be so sensitive that no one will be able to handle them.”
Thank you Adolf.
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