Feb 27, 2021 8:11 PM
BenSpacey
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MadMike75
Bl-ee ‘ell mate!
Bugguts1957
France still has a government service that searches out and collects munitions from both world wars,don’t think they are done just yet
IndexPointer
Now imagine that every day. And at random.
Slidth
It's hard to imagine bombs like that used to be dropped by the thousands on cities.
Chort26
?1
Cats2cats
Wonder how many OAP’s are having nightmares of the blitz.
tbomber
"Those were the days...*adjusts monocle,takes sip of Schnaps and loudly smacks lips*...German bombs going off in england!"
nsepete69
A gift from baedeker
DanceFightingDog
The best part of gifts is giving, not receiving... - Bomber Harris, probably..
bingoboyo
Ker-pow!
drGrafenberg
Far less controlled than expected.
BedouinBirthingBlanket
Holy.. I’m surprised it didn’t put the windows out!
YouMayFindThisMildlyInteresting
Apparently they surrounded it with 100-ton sand embankments so the force all got directed upwards.
Wubbalubbadubdubb101
Now imagine dozens of those going off every hour
Nightcaste
Someone set us up the bomb
nothingtolurkhere
To think that coulda gone off any time in the last 75 years and not in a controlled scenario.
Flagrum
And it's getting worse the older they get, as they become more and more unstable.
TheRealQuagmire
Now imagine that times 100 during the blitzkrieg. Absolutely horrifying.
chaosundivided
bomb was ~1 ton. for comparison, on the night of 30/31 May 1942 883 aircraft dropped 1,455 tons of bombs over Cologne in a 90 minute window.
Yupurineutah
My father was a prisoner in a work camp outside of Hamburg. Tasked with dragging bits and pieces of burnt corpses out for disposal.
try as I might, I simply absolutely cannot imagine what that sounded like. never mind what it felt like.
Metalbawkses
Grandpa said it's like firecrackers next to both ears for hours
VanDerGroot
Imagine this happening all around you all the time. War is hell.
100percentfactualfacts
Imagine that shit just dropping all willy-nilly out of the air.
mrjonesandme1010
Death from above
DeinnsBeans
By the thousands....
clubpingu
Yeah imagine being Afghani
nobblestein
If there was a god people would not suffer like they do.
BSwann
13579rocket
I love that movie.
hamberglar
jussaloadajunk
DarthBrooks64
Now do the Richard Montgomery.
Monkeyface8
That bloody wreck was the nightmare of my childhood, the nasty great thing. Was convinced it would go boom.
It may yet.
Bizarkly
That's at least a half-mile away, and that's just *one bomb*. Imagine having to live with the possibility that this would fall from the sky.
Having to live with it explains designs like the Lanc.. a “bomb bay with wings”, according to one inspecting American pilot.
ZebAsiz
*That hundreds would be falling from the sky at once.
Holdenmeownbeer
For how many days did a series of these barrage London?
Is 56 days accurate? Because.....HOLY HELL.
Badbadger1
Germany dropped 503 tons of high explosives and 30,000 incendiary bombs..over roughly eight months..
And to think they only found it because sergeant angel asked if he had a shotgun license.
Mithi
"Yeah, for this one."
andwings2go
Imagine being 18 and having to run TOWARD shit like that.
Being on UK soil, this would have been dropped from a plane. Not much of a reason for an infantryman to be running towards a bomber.
Medics.
jamieb03303
Longbowgun
thisguyonline1988
As a person that went to school for Blasting, I preferred "Tig oh bitties!"
drunkbs
The guy at the sign store said 'Dig ol Bicks' was in the same vein.
Hey you can shout whatever you want.....especially when you control the explosives.
yermawsmaw
Petrolholic
Yes, yes they are
sluttyllamas
Hey i live there. Hello from Exeter ?
PrincessBride1
That looks bad. Hope you were safe and nothing was really damaged.
Yup all good. Well away from the evacuation zone which included 2600 households!
Glad to hear it, friend!
PoorSucker
The most beautiful name of a British town.
Howdy
Jennar8OR
I used to live there, hello back!
RedLemonSlice
Did it always had this name or is it a 2016's child?
LittleCat14
It is called Exeter because it is by the river Exe. I think the city dates back to Roman era, the name is at least a few hundred years old
Wait, wait wait... you got River.exe also? You live in a magical place!
jlurosa
By far bigger than I expected
iancarry
- blastmaster
That was with 400 tonnes of sand on it.
VikingForHire
Thats with 400 tons of sand surrounding the bomb.
HandoB4Javert
barnwolf
It's probably like 90% added explosives and 10% bomb. Just pile the stuff on top and hope it blows the bomb's explosion back down?
ElbowDeepInAPoliceState
1/That just means ypu now have a bomb thats 1000% larger than the initial bomb. They built a huge set of baffles around it (to direct the
2/blast upwards and absorb energy, using 400 tonnes of sand. The bomb was a 1 000kg bomb, w/a filling of 620kg
From what I remember last time a bomb like this was blown up, the use a surprising amount of C4 or w/e to ensure a complete detonation.
Makes sense, the filling would've degraded a pile since it was dropped
CGMR
That’s a good thing to hear...depending on the context.
Syntesia
That what she never said.
HenchGoalkeeper66
What she said she never unsaid
nwgraphicdesign
Thats what she said ;)
Cartoones
That's what she said about my 3 inch
PrehistoricPrincess
was 8ft long, they had to build a wall around it, took friday til saturday to make it happen. was heard 5 miles away. bit wild
I was 10 miles away and heard it! Was obviously not that loud here, but definitely was the explosion
ZeKiller
That what she said... About my depression.
WellThatsOriginal
It may have been bigger than they expected too...lol
omuaomua
No no, there was only one thing, what they didnt expect
CmfMttnPpl
The Spanish inquisition
Wolfshead009
My guess is that it was channeled to expend as much energy upwards as possible to minimize damage around it.
MechanicalRomance
It had 400 tonkes of sand on it.
And it STILL looked like that?!? YIKES!
Andersen81
400 tonkes? Please descripe that in boulders or washingmachines, no more arbitrary messurments.
Akaszkronos
here's one tonk type a. You figure it out.
Just the idea of bomb disposel calfully stacking 400 toy trucks on top of the bomb is hilarios
inceptify
ThisprogramcannotberuninDOSmode
I wish she did
TedBuckley
I thought they would have baffles the blast
It had 400 tonnes of sand on it.
How many tonnes of sand?
Vorphalack
Just eyeballing it, I’d say that’s gotta be 400 tonnes of sand, easy.
Roughly 400 according to reports
Rkfinecake
And that was just one.
JupiterMiningCorpRep
1 1000kg bomb, a medium sized bomb for the time...
Dang. ? to the British people for what they endured with understated confidence.
And that sheer stubbornness
Bystandr
500 lb / 300 kg was more common, but yeah they had that and heavier. The english blockbuster they dropped on Germany was a monster @ 2000 lb
Knightendae
That's very sobering to me.
philthy
I wish more people understood the gravity of war, and the utter devastation. We've become desensitized to something we never should be.
probablydaydreaming
Humanity can be awesome and terrifying
MimiBeast
Like, imagining it raining those bombs, all around you with your friends and family. The horrer
That's exactly how I felt. Unimaginable to be in such an urban areas with those going off non stop, so far from the front.
I understand more intimately why parents sent their kids to the country.
Like, hundreds of those, falling around you, with your family and friends and community. The horrer.
swellguy18
I'm only correcting this because you made the mistake twice. *Horror. No offense intended.
Thanks! (My internet was slow so I commented twice not seeing the first one posted) I was hoping my phone would help me spell the word.
I hear ya man, even with spell check I misspell constantly. Probably has gotten worse as I've started relying on it to catch me lol.
Like a dyslexic Kurtz.
GrenadeIn
In Germany, findings WW2 bombs is pretty common especially at construction sites. They are always diffused though, and incredibly quickly.
ProbablyDrunkAgain
Found them over in Japan as well.
zenoshogun
I don't think it diffused until after it explodes, it's pretty diffuse then.
heartlesswench
*Defused*. Diffusing a bomb is kinda the opposite of what you want to do.
OopsiLeftMyUsernameAtHome
I remember one in Augsburg got diffused Christmas Day. I didn't know until the day of.... ?♀️
RoyalDutchShell
It’s almost like the Germans designed them
FPTPsucks
Couldn't help but notice you didn't say "safely".
geraltofriva
In larger cities, like Cologne, first you find bombs, then you find old roman stuff when you start digging.
NapoleonDynOmite
In London it's the same and if you keep going iron age
mulefa
When Tottenham Court Rd was excavated they found a bunch of Roman era artefacts, including 100s of hairpins-just like bobbypins today
somerandomusernamebecauseididntlikemyoldone
Lots of shells and weapons to be found in the countryside too
Hammerwell
Sometimes it goes wrong. https://youtu.be/A8pAHjmuIr0
neff22
I wonder how bad it is in Tokyo
camjay14
Probably not as bad as vietnam and laos. More bombs dropped in that war than ww1 n ww2 combined..
gizmomelb
still by a factor of 2X probably.. 7.5 million tonnes dropped on Vietnam, 2.7 million tonnes dropped during WWII.
theresamooselooseabootthishoose
A British archaeologist friend of mine found some metal, kicked it, then looked closely & saw "Achtung". Might have had a brown trouser day.
likeumreal
Brown trousers courtesy of the brown shirts, am I right guys?
Mongicane
Boo. Take your upvote, damnit.
HappyClamsters
I remember when they found the big one in Koblenz in the Rhein and had to evac the entire city.
uhmmmhuhwhat
IF they can get diffusen that's the preferred method. Last year in Kiel they had to (controlled) detonate I think 2 bombs though
All the others were diffused. They find one evey month, sometimes it feels like every week
PullShporttel
They evacuated Brandenburg a few months ago and brought in a detonation chamber. It's not "all the others" by a long shot.
I meant "the others" in Kiel. Sorry for the confusion. "Your" sounds like a huge one!
whoseideawasthis
Sorry about that. The London 2012 Olympic development company had their own bomb disposal team because they found so many!
coothlesscthulhuwastaken
Found the Canadian
NomadicPaladin
Uh...sorry for what? The reasons the bombs are in Germany in the first place are pretty good.
Raggedsrage
Yeah exactly. More like here’s a reminder to not be fuckwits who are complicit in genocide and going on a risk campaign.
LAMovieDesign
It was terrible for all countries involved and it’s a reminder that we’re still finding bombs in a bunch of countries from that war.
Eikre
You can find an affair to have been somewhat regrettable without necessarily apologizing for it.
For people today still having to deal with what the Nazis did to the world, directly or indirectly.
itsimpossibruu
Haha did he apologise for beating the Nazis?
No, but for people today still having to deal with what the Nazis did to the world.
BaldBandit
London and the surrounding countryside got bombed during the war by the Luftwaffe.
thetonestarr
Yeah but they original comment was about finding bombs in Germany and the person replying apologized.
Craigpd
Not just London and area. Any strategic area. My area was hit bad because of the refinery here.
Amythas
The area around Leeds/Bradford Airport had some old Bunker-Factories from WW2 to protect from bombing
KoalaOnTheJuice
I remember being in a British class being told that for every bomb dropped on Britain during WW2, the allies dropped 20 on Germany.
the US dropped 8666x as many bombs during the Vietnam engagement as the Germans dropped on London in WWII
AlfakaGordonShumway
US/UK dropped2.7 million tons of bombs on Europe, half of that on Germany
UKMonkey
For comparison, Germany dropped 74k tonnes.
Here is a book which shows how Hamburg, German looked like after the bombing which lead to the Firestorm of Hamburg. 1/2
https://www.amazon.com/%C2%BBTod-%C3%BCber-Hamburg%C2%AB/dp/3885068354 While the text is in German, just the pictures tell a story
7.5 million tonnes of bombs dropped by the USA over Vietnam.
It's not the size... It's how you use it.
obviously the US didn't know how to use it either.. unexploded bombs are a daily part of life in Vietnam in 2021, it isn't news worthy thoug
JaffaHaffa
And they still lost
MadMike75
Bl-ee ‘ell mate!
Bugguts1957
France still has a government service that searches out and collects munitions from both world wars,don’t think they are done just yet
IndexPointer
Now imagine that every day. And at random.
Slidth
It's hard to imagine bombs like that used to be dropped by the thousands on cities.
Chort26
Cats2cats
Wonder how many OAP’s are having nightmares of the blitz.
tbomber
"Those were the days...*adjusts monocle,takes sip of Schnaps and loudly smacks lips*...German bombs going off in england!"
nsepete69
A gift from baedeker
DanceFightingDog
The best part of gifts is giving, not receiving... - Bomber Harris, probably..
bingoboyo
Ker-pow!
drGrafenberg
Far less controlled than expected.
BedouinBirthingBlanket
Holy.. I’m surprised it didn’t put the windows out!
YouMayFindThisMildlyInteresting
Apparently they surrounded it with 100-ton sand embankments so the force all got directed upwards.
Wubbalubbadubdubb101
Now imagine dozens of those going off every hour
Nightcaste
Someone set us up the bomb
nothingtolurkhere
To think that coulda gone off any time in the last 75 years and not in a controlled scenario.
Flagrum
And it's getting worse the older they get, as they become more and more unstable.
TheRealQuagmire
Now imagine that times 100 during the blitzkrieg. Absolutely horrifying.
chaosundivided
bomb was ~1 ton. for comparison, on the night of 30/31 May 1942 883 aircraft dropped 1,455 tons of bombs over Cologne in a 90 minute window.
Yupurineutah
My father was a prisoner in a work camp outside of Hamburg. Tasked with dragging bits and pieces of burnt corpses out for disposal.
chaosundivided
try as I might, I simply absolutely cannot imagine what that sounded like. never mind what it felt like.
Metalbawkses
Grandpa said it's like firecrackers next to both ears for hours
VanDerGroot
Imagine this happening all around you all the time. War is hell.
100percentfactualfacts
Imagine that shit just dropping all willy-nilly out of the air.
mrjonesandme1010
Death from above
DeinnsBeans
By the thousands....
clubpingu
Yeah imagine being Afghani
nobblestein
If there was a god people would not suffer like they do.
BSwann
13579rocket
I love that movie.
hamberglar
jussaloadajunk
DarthBrooks64
Now do the Richard Montgomery.
Monkeyface8
That bloody wreck was the nightmare of my childhood, the nasty great thing. Was convinced it would go boom.
DarthBrooks64
It may yet.
Bizarkly
That's at least a half-mile away, and that's just *one bomb*. Imagine having to live with the possibility that this would fall from the sky.
DanceFightingDog
Having to live with it explains designs like the Lanc.. a “bomb bay with wings”, according to one inspecting American pilot.
ZebAsiz
*That hundreds would be falling from the sky at once.
Holdenmeownbeer
For how many days did a series of these barrage London?
Holdenmeownbeer
Is 56 days accurate? Because.....HOLY HELL.
Badbadger1
Germany dropped 503 tons of high explosives and 30,000 incendiary bombs..over roughly eight months..
BSwann
And to think they only found it because sergeant angel asked if he had a shotgun license.
Mithi
"Yeah, for this one."
andwings2go
Imagine being 18 and having to run TOWARD shit like that.
hamberglar
Being on UK soil, this would have been dropped from a plane. Not much of a reason for an infantryman to be running towards a bomber.
andwings2go
Medics.
jamieb03303
Longbowgun
thisguyonline1988
As a person that went to school for Blasting, I preferred "Tig oh bitties!"
drunkbs
The guy at the sign store said 'Dig ol Bicks' was in the same vein.
thisguyonline1988
Hey you can shout whatever you want.....especially when you control the explosives.
yermawsmaw
Petrolholic
Yes, yes they are
sluttyllamas
Hey i live there. Hello from Exeter ?
PrincessBride1
That looks bad. Hope you were safe and nothing was really damaged.
sluttyllamas
Yup all good. Well away from the evacuation zone which included 2600 households!
PrincessBride1
Glad to hear it, friend!
PoorSucker
The most beautiful name of a British town.
BenSpacey
Howdy
Jennar8OR
I used to live there, hello back!
RedLemonSlice
Did it always had this name or is it a 2016's child?
LittleCat14
It is called Exeter because it is by the river Exe. I think the city dates back to Roman era, the name is at least a few hundred years old
RedLemonSlice
Wait, wait wait... you got River.exe also? You live in a magical place!
jlurosa
By far bigger than I expected
iancarry
- blastmaster
BSwann
That was with 400 tonnes of sand on it.
VikingForHire
Thats with 400 tons of sand surrounding the bomb.
HandoB4Javert
barnwolf
It's probably like 90% added explosives and 10% bomb. Just pile the stuff on top and hope it blows the bomb's explosion back down?
ElbowDeepInAPoliceState
1/That just means ypu now have a bomb thats 1000% larger than the initial bomb. They built a huge set of baffles around it (to direct the
ElbowDeepInAPoliceState
2/blast upwards and absorb energy, using 400 tonnes of sand. The bomb was a 1 000kg bomb, w/a filling of 620kg
barnwolf
From what I remember last time a bomb like this was blown up, the use a surprising amount of C4 or w/e to ensure a complete detonation.
ElbowDeepInAPoliceState
Makes sense, the filling would've degraded a pile since it was dropped
CGMR
That’s a good thing to hear...depending on the context.
Syntesia
That what she never said.
HenchGoalkeeper66
What she said she never unsaid
nwgraphicdesign
Thats what she said ;)
Cartoones
That's what she said about my 3 inch
PrehistoricPrincess
was 8ft long, they had to build a wall around it, took friday til saturday to make it happen. was heard 5 miles away. bit wild
LittleCat14
I was 10 miles away and heard it! Was obviously not that loud here, but definitely was the explosion
ZeKiller
That what she said... About my depression.
WellThatsOriginal
It may have been bigger than they expected too...lol
omuaomua
No no, there was only one thing, what they didnt expect
CmfMttnPpl
The Spanish inquisition
Wolfshead009
My guess is that it was channeled to expend as much energy upwards as possible to minimize damage around it.
MechanicalRomance
It had 400 tonkes of sand on it.
Wolfshead009
And it STILL looked like that?!? YIKES!
Andersen81
400 tonkes? Please descripe that in boulders or washingmachines, no more arbitrary messurments.
Akaszkronos
Andersen81
Just the idea of bomb disposel calfully stacking 400 toy trucks on top of the bomb is hilarios
inceptify
ThisprogramcannotberuninDOSmode
I wish she did
TedBuckley
I thought they would have baffles the blast
BSwann
It had 400 tonnes of sand on it.
MechanicalRomance
How many tonnes of sand?
Vorphalack
Just eyeballing it, I’d say that’s gotta be 400 tonnes of sand, easy.
BSwann
Roughly 400 according to reports
Rkfinecake
And that was just one.
JupiterMiningCorpRep
1 1000kg bomb, a medium sized bomb for the time...
Rkfinecake
Dang. ? to the British people for what they endured with understated confidence.
Metalbawkses
And that sheer stubbornness
Bystandr
500 lb / 300 kg was more common, but yeah they had that and heavier. The english blockbuster they dropped on Germany was a monster @ 2000 lb
Knightendae
That's very sobering to me.
philthy
I wish more people understood the gravity of war, and the utter devastation. We've become desensitized to something we never should be.
probablydaydreaming
Humanity can be awesome and terrifying
MimiBeast
Like, imagining it raining those bombs, all around you with your friends and family. The horrer
Knightendae
That's exactly how I felt. Unimaginable to be in such an urban areas with those going off non stop, so far from the front.
MimiBeast
I understand more intimately why parents sent their kids to the country.
MimiBeast
Like, hundreds of those, falling around you, with your family and friends and community. The horrer.
swellguy18
I'm only correcting this because you made the mistake twice. *Horror. No offense intended.
MimiBeast
Thanks! (My internet was slow so I commented twice not seeing the first one posted) I was hoping my phone would help me spell the word.
swellguy18
I hear ya man, even with spell check I misspell constantly. Probably has gotten worse as I've started relying on it to catch me lol.
YouMayFindThisMildlyInteresting
Like a dyslexic Kurtz.
GrenadeIn
In Germany, findings WW2 bombs is pretty common especially at construction sites. They are always diffused though, and incredibly quickly.
ProbablyDrunkAgain
Found them over in Japan as well.
zenoshogun
I don't think it diffused until after it explodes, it's pretty diffuse then.
heartlesswench
*Defused*. Diffusing a bomb is kinda the opposite of what you want to do.
OopsiLeftMyUsernameAtHome
I remember one in Augsburg got diffused Christmas Day. I didn't know until the day of.... ?♀️
RoyalDutchShell
It’s almost like the Germans designed them
FPTPsucks
Couldn't help but notice you didn't say "safely".
geraltofriva
In larger cities, like Cologne, first you find bombs, then you find old roman stuff when you start digging.
NapoleonDynOmite
In London it's the same and if you keep going iron age
mulefa
When Tottenham Court Rd was excavated they found a bunch of Roman era artefacts, including 100s of hairpins-just like bobbypins today
somerandomusernamebecauseididntlikemyoldone
Lots of shells and weapons to be found in the countryside too
Hammerwell
Sometimes it goes wrong. https://youtu.be/A8pAHjmuIr0
neff22
I wonder how bad it is in Tokyo
camjay14
Probably not as bad as vietnam and laos. More bombs dropped in that war than ww1 n ww2 combined..
gizmomelb
still by a factor of 2X probably.. 7.5 million tonnes dropped on Vietnam, 2.7 million tonnes dropped during WWII.
theresamooselooseabootthishoose
A British archaeologist friend of mine found some metal, kicked it, then looked closely & saw "Achtung". Might have had a brown trouser day.
likeumreal
Brown trousers courtesy of the brown shirts, am I right guys?
Mongicane
Boo. Take your upvote, damnit.
HappyClamsters
I remember when they found the big one in Koblenz in the Rhein and had to evac the entire city.
uhmmmhuhwhat
IF they can get diffusen that's the preferred method. Last year in Kiel they had to (controlled) detonate I think 2 bombs though
uhmmmhuhwhat
All the others were diffused. They find one evey month, sometimes it feels like every week
PullShporttel
They evacuated Brandenburg a few months ago and brought in a detonation chamber. It's not "all the others" by a long shot.
uhmmmhuhwhat
I meant "the others" in Kiel. Sorry for the confusion. "Your" sounds like a huge one!
whoseideawasthis
Sorry about that. The London 2012 Olympic development company had their own bomb disposal team because they found so many!
coothlesscthulhuwastaken
Found the Canadian
NomadicPaladin
Uh...sorry for what? The reasons the bombs are in Germany in the first place are pretty good.
Raggedsrage
Yeah exactly. More like here’s a reminder to not be fuckwits who are complicit in genocide and going on a risk campaign.
LAMovieDesign
It was terrible for all countries involved and it’s a reminder that we’re still finding bombs in a bunch of countries from that war.
Eikre
You can find an affair to have been somewhat regrettable without necessarily apologizing for it.
Flagrum
For people today still having to deal with what the Nazis did to the world, directly or indirectly.
itsimpossibruu
Haha did he apologise for beating the Nazis?
Flagrum
No, but for people today still having to deal with what the Nazis did to the world.
BaldBandit
London and the surrounding countryside got bombed during the war by the Luftwaffe.
thetonestarr
Yeah but they original comment was about finding bombs in Germany and the person replying apologized.
Craigpd
Not just London and area. Any strategic area. My area was hit bad because of the refinery here.
Amythas
The area around Leeds/Bradford Airport had some old Bunker-Factories from WW2 to protect from bombing
KoalaOnTheJuice
I remember being in a British class being told that for every bomb dropped on Britain during WW2, the allies dropped 20 on Germany.
gizmomelb
the US dropped 8666x as many bombs during the Vietnam engagement as the Germans dropped on London in WWII
AlfakaGordonShumway
US/UK dropped2.7 million tons of bombs on Europe, half of that on Germany
UKMonkey
For comparison, Germany dropped 74k tonnes.
AlfakaGordonShumway
Here is a book which shows how Hamburg, German looked like after the bombing which lead to the Firestorm of Hamburg. 1/2
AlfakaGordonShumway
https://www.amazon.com/%C2%BBTod-%C3%BCber-Hamburg%C2%AB/dp/3885068354 While the text is in German, just the pictures tell a story
gizmomelb
7.5 million tonnes of bombs dropped by the USA over Vietnam.
UKMonkey
It's not the size... It's how you use it.
gizmomelb
obviously the US didn't know how to use it either.. unexploded bombs are a daily part of life in Vietnam in 2021, it isn't news worthy thoug
JaffaHaffa
And they still lost