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re: German WW2 bomb leaves giant crater in field
Posted on 6/25/19 at 2:14 pm to DavidTheGnome
Posted on 6/25/19 at 2:14 pm to DavidTheGnome
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Posted on 6/25/19 at 2:27 pm to baldona
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I was about to say this. Look at his tire rut marks, ole boy drove right over that thing.
That has to play a part in it. Not an instantaneous reaction but it moved the thing which started the whole shebang.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 2:31 pm to TygerDurden
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Would be fascinating to know just what we were trying to blow the shite out of in that area during WW2
Possibly troop buildup or Panzer columns with requisite supply lines to keep things moving along. Who knows??
Posted on 6/25/19 at 2:35 pm to gumbo2176
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Would be fascinating to know just what we were trying to blow the shite out of in that area during WW2
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Possibly troop buildup or Panzer columns with requisite supply lines to keep things moving along. Who knows??
didn't have the precision then that we do now, nowhere even close, carpet, saturation bombing, maybe the lead bomber had a good site and everyone tracking to bracket off him, plus if a plane gets shot up and crippled they're going to offload ordnance to try to get home
Posted on 6/25/19 at 2:50 pm to gumbo2176
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How'd you like to be driving a tractor over that when it went off?
some guy has been plowing and turning soil over working that field every day for the last 75 years
you know he got a damn angel watching over him to have not set it off in all that time
Posted on 6/25/19 at 2:56 pm to 777Tiger
regardless of which side that bomb came from, either side would chose not to land with an active bomb IF their landing gear were less than perfect, or the bomb was 'hanging' up on the plane.
It doesn't look like a target was nearby, but surviving to fly another day was a personal imperative.
It doesn't look like a target was nearby, but surviving to fly another day was a personal imperative.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 2:58 pm to Tigeralum2008
quote:The Russians dont have to cross the Atlantic
It's Germany. They deserve to be reminded of what happens when Daddy has to cross the Atlantic
Posted on 6/25/19 at 2:58 pm to Thib-a-doe Tiger
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Nobody called it a German bomb. Reading are hard
Thread title is...
quote:I can understand why he would think it was a German bomb.
German WW2 bomb leaves giant crater in field
Posted on 6/25/19 at 2:58 pm to celltech1981
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I was listening to an underwater EOD guy on a podcast the other day and he said german mines are usually still active and in good mechanical condition because of how well engineered and made they were. I would think the same would apply to their bombs.
Got to be Allied bombs.
This post was edited on 6/25/19 at 3:00 pm
Posted on 6/25/19 at 3:02 pm to gumbo2176
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Possibly troop buildup or Panzer columns with requisite supply lines to keep things moving along. Who knows??
The article states there was a nearby train station/yard that was a target in the last days of the war.
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Residents said a nearby railway depot had become a target for Allied bombing in the dying days of the war, and unexploded bombs had been found in the area in the past.
This post was edited on 6/25/19 at 3:03 pm
Posted on 6/25/19 at 3:05 pm to Crow Pie
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I can understand why he would think it was a German bomb.
I suppose it technically was a German bomb after we gave it to them.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 3:40 pm to DavidTheGnome
Those aliens are getting lazier with their crop circles.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 6:05 pm to DavidTheGnome
So what made it explode? Crazy it sat there for 80 years then just said hey think I’ll blow up today.
I can hear the crop insurance guy telling the farmer “sorry baw your policy doesn’t cover crop loss from WW2 bombs”
I can hear the crop insurance guy telling the farmer “sorry baw your policy doesn’t cover crop loss from WW2 bombs”
Posted on 6/25/19 at 6:28 pm to deltaland
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So what made it explode?
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Officials say it is not unheard of for detonators to decompose to the extent that the bomb goes off by itself.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 6:36 pm to Ghost of Colby
quote:This one farmer is probably gonna be grinning. That thing sent a shockwave through his field. Anything else there probably would have been triggered.
I bet he and the other farmers in the area are going to be a little nervous the next time they plow their fields.
But his neighbors...yeah not so much grinning as puckering.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 7:47 pm to Tigeralum2008
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It's Germany. They deserve to be reminded of what happens when Daddy has to cross the Atlantic
Post of the year to date.
I'm half German and still laughed my arse off
Posted on 6/25/19 at 7:54 pm to Thib-a-doe Tiger
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Do you not think the Germans were bombing Allied forces in Germany?
By the time US ground forces were in Germany the Luftwaffe was lying in pieces all across Bavaria. In those later months of the war anything with an Iron Cross or swastika that got airborne was lucky to get it's wheels up before it was hammered by Mustangs, Jugs or Lightnings.
Posted on 6/25/19 at 8:39 pm to 777Tiger
Right. For all the talk about dropping bombs in a pickle barrel, the Norton bombsight had it's problems. Bombardiers trained in (generally) cloud free skies in the western US. Bombing in Northern Europe was a different story.
The 8th Air Force insisted on bombing in daylight, but the reality is they weren't much more accurate than British Bomber Command was bombing at night. I don't remember the exact stats, but only something like 10% of American bombs fell within 1,500' of their aiming point. We were area bombing, just like the Brits.
The 8th Air Force insisted on bombing in daylight, but the reality is they weren't much more accurate than British Bomber Command was bombing at night. I don't remember the exact stats, but only something like 10% of American bombs fell within 1,500' of their aiming point. We were area bombing, just like the Brits.
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