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In Germany, unexploded bombs are discovered on a weekly basis.
by karlzt 2y ago
In Germany, unexploded bombs are discovered on a weekly basis.
- Clubber 2y agoVerdun, France too, though I don't think they build an airstrip on top of one.
- rtkwe 2y agoOdds are the airport is on the same land an old Imperial Japanese airfield was on.
- JoeAltmaier 2y agoYes the article supports that.
- sjm 2y agoIn Cambodia too, where the US dropped 540,000 tons of bombs during the Vietnam war.
- junga 2y agoWhen I was in elementary school in Lower Saxony I „often" couldn't go home after school because there was some defusion of WW2 bombs in my area going on. „Often“ means something like 10 times in 4 years. Was quite used to this and didn't think much about it back then. Now that I have kids myself I would be glad to know that they won't have to deal with the fails of my generation. But the older I get, the less confident I am.
- kimixa 2y agoSame in the UK. I'd hope we as a species would learn from things like that, but I fear we'll be seeing the same thing centuries from now even if the details change. There were craters just outside the village I grew up in. We used to go sledding down them when I was a kid. The story I heard was it just dumped bombs from a raid on a larger city so they didn't have to carry them back.
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- dgellow 2y agoYeah, in the Hamburg area we get a few alerts every 3 months or so. Never had one in my neighborhood, hopefully