O/T Interesting Find............

Our daughter lives on SE New Jersey in Washington DC, about halfway between the Capitol and the Navy Yards.

In doing excavation for a new development about five blocks from her apartment building, construction people dug up an unexploded WWII 1,000 lb. bomb. Apparently it was once the site of a munitions factory. They haven't figured out yet how the bomb got buried.

And i feel bad when i loose a pare a plers....

wooo...hate to hit that with a chisel plow!!! how bout the atom bomb that was lost from a plane in georgia!!! heres a link
boom

They expect to find more.

looks more like an artillery shell than a bomb.could be wrong. bill

How about when the Japanese
bombed us ?

I saw a thing on one of the news feeds the other night where they found on that looked just like that in France (I think I'm remembering that right) here recently too. In that case they said it was buried by the Germans who had planned to leave a bit of destruction behind them when they left. Fortunately that one didn't explode for them.

It's fun to bring up "What ifs?", but the last few years I was in the Marine Corps, I was on a nuclear weapon assembly team.

On another thread when the subject came up a year or two ago, I described in great detail how nuclear weapons of that era were built, and how on that type of bomb the nuclear material was not inserted into the high explosives until the weapon was armed for real. Which it obviously wouldn't have been.

The bottom line is there quite probably was not even any nuclear material aboard the B-47, and all that's at the bottom of Savannah Bay is a lump of high explosives rendered inert by over 50 years exposure to salt water.

The story says the radiation readings taken were consistent with normal background for the

It's fun to bring up "What ifs?", but the last few years I was in the Marine Corps, I was on a nuclear weapon assembly team.

On another thread when the subject came up a year or two ago, I described in great detail how nuclear weapons of that era were built, and how on that type of bomb the nuclear material was not inserted into the high explosives until the weapon was armed for real. Which it obviously wouldn't have been.

The bottom line is there quite probably was not even any nuclear material aboard the B-47, and all that's at the bottom of Savannah Bay is a lump of high explosives rendered inert by over 50 years exposure to salt water.

The story says the radiation readings taken were consistent with normal background for the

Oops. Don't know how I got a double post.

Typical news media hysteria and hype. That thing looks like about a 16" shell, the type that would be fired from a ship like the USS New Jersey or USS Missouri. Lot of the reason I hate listening to the news- it may be sensational to them, but they usually get it wrong anyway.

The whole population should have been making paper cranes,

Not unusual to dig them up here in Charleston.Civil war vintage.I have a friend that unarms them and sells them.
Ron

anybody want to bet the hoe operator is in church this sunday? id be real nervous now digging around in that area

Thanks for the link Roy.
That is a very good website.

It's a shell, not a bomb. Just roll it down a hill and it will arm and detonate. Get as far away deom that thing as you can. The fuse is inside it.

For years after the gooberment shut down Camp Breckenridge here folks would plow up rounds like that. Always heard that there were a few folks killed when the stuff they hit went off. I seen pics when I was a kid of disk that had been blown apart. I think it been 10 years or so since any one found anything, I remember they brought the demo guys from Campbell out to blow up one when I was still in high school, would have been real nice if they had give'n folks a little warn'n. Guess they have found them all by now, set'n here watch'n four tractors run on the old camp now. Still not sure I would want to pull a ripper too much on it.

Dave

My last Air Force tour was in EOD (Explosive Ordinance Disposal) you'd be surprised at the stuff still floating around. I was stationed at McDill AFB near Tampa in the early 90's, about twice a year some ex GI would come on base and "confess" to burying various explosive and chemical ordinance on the base during WWII. We'd spend a few days with the old timers wandering around in the Palmettos looking for the stuff, never did find anything. There was an incident in the late 80's when they were cleaning up one of the keys near the mouth of Tampa Bay, they found out that WW II bomber crews training in the area used to drop bombs on that key before landing, in the process of turning the key into a park they uncovered a few UXO's that had to be dealt with. Occasionally the shrimp boats would dredge up something from the Gulf, more than once EOD teams have had to go to harbors and do their stuff on crap the shrimpers brought in. With Florida being a retirement community the local Sheriff's department was doing 3-4 calls a month on "war trophies" turning up in estates. We handled a few civil war cannon balls, our data was a little weak, some of them had black powder charges in the center, a few have dried out and went on to cause problems. A lot of things have turned up in Europe, some enemy ordinance, some land mines/ explosive plants, some allied ordinance and a few destruction charges that were forgotten. Just two years ago up here they had the Peshtigo river drawn down to work on the dam near the mill and Found a WWII hand grenade.