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General Category => News => Topic started by: emike123 on October 13, 2020, 04:45:01 PM

Title: Hark! I hear the sound of the cannons
Post by: emike123 on October 13, 2020, 04:45:01 PM
No Polish jokes, please, but I wonder what John Bartleson would think of the strategy of rendering this massive bomb safe by "burning out" the explosives.  I guess the canal served as a containment so in the end all is ok.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8835659/12-000lb-RAF-Tallboy-bomb-EXPLODES-defused-underwater.html

Here is the Wikipedia article on the German pocket battleship the bomb missed in 1945:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cruiser_Deutschland
Title: Re: Hark! I hear the sound of the cannons
Post by: CarlS on October 13, 2020, 11:38:54 PM
Interesting article.  Worked out well to be in the water like that.  If on land it would have been far more impactful to the community.