Re: [MV] Todays WW2 discoveries

From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Sun Feb 13 2005 - 10:08:45 PST


At 9:18 AM -0800 2/13/05, Joe Foley wrote:
>Well, no, you probably wouldn't.
>
>You have to remember that some of that stuff could
>still blow your ass off!!
>
>That was a big problem in Europe after that war,
>farmers, loggers, and construction workers are still
>"finding" stuff that goes boom.

There's UXO from WWI still active in France and
the Low countries. The same goes for un exploded
bombs in the UK. There's a Royal Engineer unit
that still performs the same kind of disposal of
bombs as their grandfathers did in WWII.

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