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Mass evacuation for bomb removal
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H.Johnson
One Too Many
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- Midlands, UK
The people had been, of course, evacuated en masse (just to stay within thread).
I live near the site of the Fauld explosion, which was almost as large and was (not definitely) attributed to bombs returned from active service into an ammunition dump not being defused properly. No mass evacuation, but definitely unexploded ordnance!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Fauld_Explosion
I live near the site of the Fauld explosion, which was almost as large and was (not definitely) attributed to bombs returned from active service into an ammunition dump not being defused properly. No mass evacuation, but definitely unexploded ordnance!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Fauld_Explosion
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A large area on the westcoast of Jutland is only just now being cleared from German mines from WWII. The "Westwall" stretched all the way from the German border to Skagen.
This piece of land has been cut off to public since the war. And is the only know piece, still with mines. Hopefully.:eusa_doh:
At the end of the war, German POWs were ordered to clear the minefields. After all - they put them there, so they should know It was ofcourse pure reveng!
A lot of them got killed, doing this job.
Just imagine to die when the war is over, because you are ordrered to walk though a minefield in long rows searching for mines with a stick - and your boots.
Horrible!!!
This piece of land has been cut off to public since the war. And is the only know piece, still with mines. Hopefully.:eusa_doh:
At the end of the war, German POWs were ordered to clear the minefields. After all - they put them there, so they should know It was ofcourse pure reveng!
A lot of them got killed, doing this job.
Just imagine to die when the war is over, because you are ordrered to walk though a minefield in long rows searching for mines with a stick - and your boots.
Horrible!!!
