WWII UXB explodes in Munich, injuring 4.

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01 Dec 2021, 11:05 am

A World War II bomb exploded at a construction site next to a busy railway line in Munich, injuring four people, one of them seriously.

Trains to and from the Donnersbergerbruecke station, one of Germany’s busiest, were suspended but service resumed in mid-afternoon.  A few local trains were evacuated.  The fire service said there was no damage to the tracks.

Unexploded bombs are still found frequently in Germany, even 76 years after the end of the war, and often during work on construction sites.

The 250-kilogram (550-pound) bomb was found during drilling work.


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02 Dec 2021, 4:36 pm

The irony is its probably a German bomb.

Probably dropped on Allied ground forces in the last weeks of the war when the allied armies were moving into Germany's own soil.

The reason I suspect that is because it was made in metric units, and not in imperial units.

The Brits and the US made ordinance in imperial units (onces pounds tons). The Soviet, and German, air forces had metric sized bombs. But the Soviet military never struck that far west into Germany AFAIK. So a WWII bomb made in metric units found in Munich has to have been deployed by the Germans themselves.



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02 Dec 2021, 4:46 pm

Don’t they still find undetonated ones in the UK in flower beds?Nestled right under the peonies.


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02 Dec 2021, 4:53 pm

Probably.

They found an entire buried ammunition dump of unexploded artillery shells near a ritzy Washington DC neighborhood about 20 years ago. The shells were from the FIRST world war.

And in Britain there is a big sunken World War Two freighter ship filled with several thousand tons of ammunition that rests on the bottom of Thames, a few dozen miles downstream from London.