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Thanks for posting....

Two years ago I was on my way home from Constantinople / Istanbul with a two hour stop over at Air port "Paris France"....

I meet an individual who was on a team that was locating and removing unexploded WWll allied bombs. A Natural Gas pipeline was to be constructed in Continental Europe....

The individual also shared with me some of his experiences locating and removing unexploded WWll bombs in the North Sea so as Cement footings and structural towers could be placed on the seas bed to accommodated natural gas pipeline supports...


Bob...
 
it would be interesting to see what the creator looks like from the ground level. the picture looks like it might have raised the ground but it could be deceiving too.
 
I'm sure someone on here knows, but what sets off a bomb like that?

I would thing there had to be a battery, or some type electrical charge to trigger it.

How could something like that still be active after all those years?
 
I read about this earlier today, and I believe it mentioned something about a chemical fuse deteriating, and setting the bomb. Mark.
 
It exploded in a field of barley, not corn. I googled it and zoomed in on this picture on another website. The crop looks like a wheat or barley crop. When I read farther and the article mentioned barley. Those long lines in the field are sprayer tracks. This particular bomb weighs a little over 500 pounds and has .3" thick walls or about a third of an inch thick. The charge weighs 250 pounds. It is designed to penetrate railroad bridge cement abutments or anything else that is thick. It will fall through three stories of a building before it detonates so no wonder it can bury itself deep if it does not explode. This article said europe will be finding bombs for the next 200 years.
 
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