There Are Still Thousands of Tons of Unexploded Bombs in Germany…
Eleven bomb technicians have been killed in Germany since 2000, including three who died in a single explosion while trying to defuse a 1,000-pound bomb on the site of a popular flea market...
Munich WW2 bomb blows up near station, wounding four
2021年12月1日 · Unexploded wartime bombs are frequently found in Germany and prompt big evacuations, but most are defused by experts without exploding. Police say the bomb went off during tunnel work near...
Disposal crews remove WWII bombs found in German town near …
2024年4月4日 · GRAFENWOEHR, Germany — Specialists defused two American World War II-era bombs Thursday near a decommissioned train station outside the Bavarian city of Amberg.
Unexploded ordnance - Wikipedia
Unexploded ordnance (UXO, sometimes abbreviated as UO) and unexploded bombs (UXBs) are explosive weapons (bombs, shells, grenades, land mines, naval mines, cluster munition, and other munitions) that did not explode when they were deployed and remain at detonative risk, sometimes many decades after they were used or discarded.
Unexploded bombs from World War II are becoming more …
2024年4月7日 · Between 1940 and 1945, American and British forces dropped nearly three million tons of explosives on Europe, half of which targeted Germany. A quarter of a million of these did not explode.
Germany's problem with its thousands of unexploded bombs
07/27/2023. Germany has thousands of tons of unexploded ordnance and munitions left over from World War I and World War II. Time and again, entire neighborhoods must be evacuated to defuse...
Unexploded ordnance in Germany - a legacy of the Allied Forces
2017年5月7日 · German authorities are under pressure to remove unexploded ordnance from populated areas. Experts argue that the bombs are becoming more dangerous as time goes by due to material fatigue.
World War II-Era Bomb Successfully Defused Near German Soccer …
2024年5月3日 · Specialists in Germany have successfully defused an unexploded bomb dropped by American troops during World War II. The 500-kilogram (1,110-pound) ordnance was discovered last Wednesday...
Huge unexploded WWII bomb discovered in Germany - Euronews
2024年4月4日 · An unexploded 500-kilogram World War II bomb was discovered this week in the Rhine River in the German city of Cologne. The explosive was uncovered during construction on the shipping...
Germany Keeps Finding Unexploded Bombs From World War II
2016年5月29日 · Bomb-disposal technicians have discovered and defused a World War II-era bomb at the airport in the German city of Hannover, forcing more than 50 flights to be diverted to other airports.