WARSAW (Reuters) - The biggest World War Two bomb ever found in Poland exploded under water on Tuesday as navy divers tried to defuse it.
More than 750 people had been evacuated from the area near the Piast Canal outside the town of Swinoujscie where the Tallboy bomb used by Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) was found. It weighed nearly 5,400 kg, including 2,400 kg of explosive.
“The deflagration process turned into detonation. The object can be considered as neutralised, it will not pose any more threat,” Second-Lieutenant Grzegorz Lewandowski, the spokesman of the 8th Coastal Defense Flotilla, was quoted as saying by state-run news agency PAP.
“All mine divers were outside the danger zone.”
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WNU Editor: Video of the bomb being neutralized by a controlled explosion is below.
5 comments:
Poor fish!
I would think the time spent underwater would have deteriorated the thing.
And what did the Allies fear from that ship so late in the war?
Yeah I wonder what the timeline is for these WWII bombs before they deteriorate enough to be harmless...I guess it depends on the environment they settle in.
"And what did the Allies fear from that ship so late in the war?"
Depending on where the front was, the ship could have provided gun fire support against the Russians.
Also, the train wreck Howard Zinn was correct with part of his criticisms. They did it because the system was set up and they just kept going out of inertia, self promotion, etc.
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