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Unexploded Ww2 Bombs

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Astonian

gone but not forgotten
Hi guys
heard on yesterdays bbc news of a world war 2 unexploded bomb found in aston hall rd aston ;
to think some family have lived there for years since the war with a german bomb under there house
i am just wondering just how many more bombs are laying around un earthed ;
especialy in aston ; as it was close to the city of brum ; but i do not recal ever hearing of such device within the city centre when they started to redevelope the city as any body heard of it before ; ?
Best wishes astonian;
 
Hi Astonian,

The "Bomb" was unearthed by some electricians working on cabling at
junction of Aston Hall Road & Union Road,,,the Police cordoned the area & Army
Bomb disposal guys (bravest guys in the forces) dealt with it,, it was actually a "Mortar round 60 /15 cm"
but could have blown up another one of our Chip Shops eh!

Theres probably loads still around buried in all of our major Cities & hopefully all are now wasted away, harmless.
Cheers John
 
It is not only in cities and large towns where explosive devices dating from WW2 are found. Many extremely hazardous items, not just bombs and smaller armaments, are trawled up from the sea bed by fishing trawlers around British coastal waters. Over the years since WW2 a few vessels have been lost at sea and their loss, including their crews, has been attributed to mines, torpedoes and other explosive devices which suddenly landed, in the trawl, on the ships deck after being trawled up.
 
Reading about WW2 leftovers, brings to mind about an incident about 25years ago here on the coast of Texas...apparantley a WW2 bomb washed up the beach, its was thought a shrimp boat had stagged it and it got loose off the bottom of the gulf (its seems in ww2 this part of the gulf was used for bomb practice).. well the national guard was called and they put if on the back of a truck ( how stupid ),drove it through town out into a pasture and exploded it, that night it was real foggy and instead of the blast going up the it went out... power and telephones were knocked out and we all thought Dow chemical had blown up..our house shook as did the whole area...there was an investigation but we never heard anymore...if that bomb had gone up going through town l would hate to think what would have happened...Brenda
 
The majority of UXBs were known about and dealt with at the time. My grandfather often supported the EOD teams with material when they were working in the Sutton/Erdington areas. Two other matters result in such finds though. Firstly, weapons 'lost' or buried ... often in 'certain circumstances' ... but the most common is in areas like Coventry where so many bombs fell that not all were found. Some bombs went up to 40 feet into the soft earth. I'll bet there's someone on here who is more informed than I.............
 
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