WWII bomb explosion at German farm - photo

WWII bomb leaves a massive crater at a farm near Limburg, Germany.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...892#post129342
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...254#post150161
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...282#post161513
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...621#post155452
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...544#post132342

Allied 1/4-ton bomb dropped during the fall of 1943 to wipe out a nearby radio (DF) station,
this dud stayed buried 13 ft below grade until last summer, when its initiation mech apparently had degraded just enough to ignite.

Reached 1.7 on the Richter scale - no casualties: the farmer living 150 yds away was up at 4 a.m. just to get a glass of water, when...

https://www.fnp.de/lokales/limburg-w...-12660945.html

Just think how many times that bomb has been passed over by someone operating a tractor or other equipment?

I believe I would be investing in a very good metal detector at this point.

I wonder what caused the spiral pattern that goes around the crater. Seems pretty uniform. Maybe someone was approaching carefully trying to get a look at the crater?

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Originally Posted by Rikk

I wonder what caused the spiral pattern that goes around the crater. Seems pretty uniform. Maybe someone was approaching carefully trying to get a look at the crater?

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I didn't even notice that. Interesting.

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Originally Posted by Rikk

I wonder what caused the spiral pattern that goes around the crater. Seems pretty uniform. Maybe someone was approaching carefully trying to get a look at the crater?

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Either that, or checking for body parts.

Oh the things we have left behind from all of the wars over the years.

Reminds me of a movie...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0npJ6epNJsc&t=145s

https://youtu.be/wPwYE0rn-So

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Originally Posted by hemmjo

Oh the things we have left behind from all of the wars over the years.

Reminds me of a movie...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0npJ6epNJsc&t=145s

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Heston might have been the star, but the apes were all better actors and never got the recognition they deserved.

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Originally Posted by Rikk

I wonder what caused the spiral pattern that goes around the crater. Seems pretty uniform. Maybe someone was approaching carefully trying to get a look at the crater?

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probably the heave lines from the underground explosion causing a crack in the soil

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Originally Posted by cmarlow

Heston might have been the star, but the apes were all better actors and never got the recognition they deserved.

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Movie was made long before tanning salons and fake tanning dies.

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Originally Posted by hemmjo

Oh the things we have left behind from all of the wars over the years.

Reminds me of a movie...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0npJ6epNJsc&t=145s

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Two things, that prop was about two and a half feet tall and that shore is on the west coast...

EPIC! I saw this, as a child, in a theater, in the 60's. Could have told you his closing lines, from memory.