Bullet and Shell Civil War Projectiles Forum
General Category => News => Topic started by: emike123 on October 13, 2020, 04:45:01 PM
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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
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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.