PARIS -- Eurostar trains to London, including all trains heading to northern France, stopped abruptly on Friday morning after an unexploded bomb dating back to World War II was discovered near the tracks, officials said.
They uncovered 3 different bombs during construction projects in the 3 years I was stationed in Heilbronn West Germany back in the late 70s and early 80s.
Back in the late 80's, a Greek construction worker "found" a WWII 500-pounder with his backhoe while a couple of buddies and I were having a few beers in our squadron bar in Athens. It was a couple hundred yards away and on the other side of a hangar on their side of the base and it still almost knocked us out of our chairs. The guy actually survived, but he was pretty fucked up.
Hell, France still has Red Zones from WW1. Contaminated with UXB, all sorts of nasty chemicals, and various other crap. Slowly being reclaimed, but likely to take centuries.
Local seafood company makes a lot of seafood chowder using pretty much anything dredged off the bottom of the Delaware bay and coast. There’s a couple of offshore areas that were target ranges a long time back. Every so often UX stuff shows up on the production line there. A few years ago it was a mustard gas shell that ruptured, closing the lines and necessitating a shutdown and decontamination of the whole place.
The western Allies did bomb parts of Paris during the war. The civilian death toll of the Allied bombing campaign throughout Europe is simply abhorrent.
That implies that our bombing was that accurate. The records show that we bombed a lot of random orchards and towns when the target was a specific place not them. It was not intentional but it was real.
We should have leveled Paris for surrending to the Nazis to save their "precious" city.... Cowards probably cheered on the Nazis fucking and impregnating their woman as well.. JD
Yes it would have been, we wouldn't have to hear their neverending pompass bullshit... We wouldn't have had to pay their lazy asses way through life for the last 80 years and there would have been thousands of gallons of terrible wine that never would have been bottled.. They have contributed nothing to the world that's worth a damn in over 100 years ... Nothing but leeches JD
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ReplyDeleteI believe in twenty years they will still be finding ordnance from WWII.
ReplyDeleteThey uncovered 3 different bombs during construction projects in the 3 years I was stationed in Heilbronn West Germany back in the late 70s and early 80s.
ReplyDeleteDanger UXB
ReplyDeleteBack in the late 80's, a Greek construction worker "found" a WWII 500-pounder with his backhoe while a couple of buddies and I were having a few beers in our squadron bar in Athens. It was a couple hundred yards away and on the other side of a hangar on their side of the base and it still almost knocked us out of our chairs. The guy actually survived, but he was pretty fucked up.
ReplyDeleteAs usual, the source of the article doesn't know the difference between ordnance and ordinance.
ReplyDeleteFarmers, mostly in Belgium, still occasionally get killed while plowing from WW1 munitions.
ReplyDeleteHell, France still has Red Zones from WW1. Contaminated with UXB, all sorts of nasty chemicals, and various other crap. Slowly being reclaimed, but likely to take centuries.
ReplyDeleteLocal seafood company makes a lot of seafood chowder using pretty much anything dredged off the bottom of the Delaware bay and coast. There’s a couple of offshore areas that were target ranges a long time back. Every so often UX stuff shows up on the production line there. A few years ago it was a mustard gas shell that ruptured, closing the lines and necessitating a shutdown and decontamination of the whole place.
DeleteThat's strange, I thought Paris was off limits to bomber attacks in WWII?
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Nothing said it was an allied bomb.
DeleteThe western Allies did bomb parts of Paris during the war.
DeleteThe civilian death toll of the Allied bombing campaign throughout Europe is simply abhorrent.
Nope. The USAF did bomb things like railways and factories in Paris but it was carefully targeted. There are photos of B17's going down over Paris.
DeleteThe allies did bomb Paris several times anyways. It was declared an open city during the ground fighting - and it wasn't utterly carpet bombed..
DeleteSeveral of the attacks on the city made the list of the most deadly bombings on France during the war:
Paris western suburbs 9 and 15 September 1943, 395 dead
Paris-La Chapelle 20–21 April 1944, 670 dead
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_France_during_World_War_II
Anon 9:59
DeleteBellum est bellum, pèlerin.
That implies that our bombing was that accurate. The records show that we bombed a lot of random orchards and towns when the target was a specific place not them. It was not intentional but it was real.
DeleteAfter the Germans and their French allies bombed Pearl Harbor, the gloves came off.
DeleteWe should have leveled Paris for surrending to the Nazis to save their "precious" city.... Cowards probably cheered on the Nazis fucking and impregnating their woman as well..
DeleteJD
Yeah. Levelling Paris and killing tens of thousands of French would have been such a great thing. 🙄
DeleteYes it would have been, we wouldn't have to hear their neverending pompass bullshit... We wouldn't have had to pay their lazy asses way through life for the last 80 years and there would have been thousands of gallons of terrible wine that never would have been bottled..
DeleteThey have contributed nothing to the world that's worth a damn in over 100 years ...
Nothing but leeches
JD
Hell yeah, tell em. JD.
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