Bomb update

Posted on June 7th, 2010 in Other Stuff

Recently an additional 9 bombs were found in the ground next to where the first bomb I wrote about earlier was discovered. This is all within a few hundred yards from our house.

Read more about the first bomb.

All bombs are 1000 lb. bombs dumped by a british bomber in distress around the end of the second World War (’44/’45).

If we weren’t away for the weekend (read about it here) we had to evacuate on sunday morning while the military was handling the bombs. The downside to being away was that we didn’t get a chance to take a look at the bombs in real life.

The following movie shows the bombs after being defused by the military. The commentary is in Dutch, it’s about the precautions that were taken (containers, evacuations) and what will happen with the bombs (detonated at sea by the navy).