The picture at the beginning of the article brings back memories. I was about 400 yards down the street when the RAF bombed the US Air Forces Europe (USAFE) HQ

The picture at the beginning of the article brings back memories. I was about 400 yards down the street when the RAF bombed the US Air Forces Europe (USAFE) HQ building on Ramstein Air Base in 1981. The explosives were packaged into 2 propane tanks hidden in a VW Bus that the terrorists parked in front of the HQ. It went off at about 7:30am in the morning and left a real mess. Amazingly nobody was killed. What's interesting is that only one of the propane tanks actually exploded. The other tank was blown through the side of the building, leaving a round hole on the left side of the building entrance between two blown out windows. (See picture: [1]) I remember standing in front of the building later and wondering what that hole was. We were told later that the tank contained about 35kg of explosives. If it had detonated it would have destroyed most of that wing of the building. Propane tanks packed with explosives are fearsome weapons. [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aftermath_of_the_1981_Red_Army_Faction_bombing.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aftermath_of_the_198...