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      02-24-2024, 04:00 PM   #1
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WW2 500kg Nazi UXB found in coastal town

Some of Plymouth town was evacuated when the huge bomb was discovered by a man digging extension foundations hitting it with his spade.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...extension.html
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This is fascinating. I cannot imagine finding something like that in my yard.
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Made me think of the SS Richard Montgomery story!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery


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Made me think of the SS Richard Montgomery story!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery

This one I'm watching with interest, that sandbank caught out the 'captain' back in '44, what a doughnut.
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This is fascinating. I cannot imagine finding something like that in my yard.


Same here and someone had already laid a concrete base for a brick wall partially over the HE gravity bomb.
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We were in Belgium last year on a tour. We went to lunch at a farmers house and he showed us his collection of World War 1 hardware that he has plowed up. He also had 3 live shells (stored separately away from the buildings) that he was waiting for the Belgian army to come pick up and dispose. He finds several every year.
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