One of the bombs destined for the harbor of Antwerp was found a 250 meters North off my house and i live 2 km birdflight off the harbor. so it dropped about 2000m to soon.
You can hear these things from a mile away, i also heard that it was a sport to shoot at these things,- on its path to its destination it got hit maybe 30 times by bullet and buckshot deflecting it off its path and dropping it somewhere random if the counter was not finished it would not be armed, and they would bury the bomb and forget all about it, till some farmer hits it with it's plow 50 years later.
The mines in the dunes have all been cleared in the 90's 2000's they had to dig out all the dunes along the coast, scan, defuse it all, and rebuild them, took about 12 years to complete what they had layed in probably a few weeks.
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(Old Spike)
One of the bombs destined for the harbor of Antwerp was found a 250 meters North off my house and i live 2 km birdflight off the harbor. so it dropped about 2000m to soon.
You can hear these things from a mile away, i also heard that it was a sport to shoot at these things,- on its path to its destination it got hit maybe 30 times by bullet and buckshot deflecting it off its path and dropping it somewhere random if the counter was not finished it would not be armed, and they would bury the bomb and forget all about it, till some farmer hits it with it's plow 50 years later.
The mines in the dunes have all been cleared in the 90's 2000's they had to dig out all the dunes along the coast, scan, defuse it all, and rebuild them, took about 12 years to complete what they had layed in probably a few weeks.