O/T Bombs in the Corn field?

Anonymous-0 · Nov 3, 2008

I saw a documentary a neighbor gave me about how many bombs were dropped during WWI, and WWII, in europe. They say 1/3 never went off. They say farmers come across at least 10 per week. Talk about farming being dangerous. Imagine plowing and finding something like that? Have any of you guys heard of this or maybee Daid from wales, or dave2 knows if they seen this.

Anonymous-0 · Nov 3, 2008

(quoted from post at 08:03:29 11/03/08) I saw a documentary a neighbor gave me about how many bombs were dropped during WWI, and WWII, in europe. They say 1/3 never went off. They say farmers come across at least 10 per week. Talk about farming being dangerous. Imagine plowing and finding something like that? Have any of you guys heard of this or maybee Daid from wales, or dave2 knows if they seen this.

I don't know about 10 a week, but it happes often. Like arrowheads, stuff has a way of surfacing. The real kicker is when new ground is broken. All kinds of stuff turns up. Quite a few missing soldiers also. One exploded and killed a couple of roadworkers a couple of years ago. There is an oncall bomb squad 24/7 just for that purpose. I live outside Schweinfurt, Germany (ball bearing capital that was pretty much leveled). Always something turning up with construction crews.

Dave

ken in texas · Nov 3, 2008

I have heard of that,in fact in the local newspaper is an article about a bombing range used in the late 40,s about 15 miles north of this town, on ranch land,using live bombs.

Anonymous-0 · Nov 3, 2008

I googled it just to see what would come up. and they say the Allies dropped 1.9 million tons of bombs during WWII, some 285,000 tons never went off..soft ground ect. Some chemical detontating bombs just bounced and are buried nose up! they say Germany has big problem with that, and these things are 60yrs+ old the contacts are corroded and look at them and they go off. Oct 17 Times online has a story about it.

northener · Nov 3, 2008

I saw a story on TV about how many bombs the Americans dropped on Vietnam that never exploded. They showed the children in the local population that were recently wounded by playing with these unexploded bombs and mines.

Anonymous-0 · Nov 3, 2008

Here in Southere Calif. near San Diego a few years back, a couple kids were killed when they found a live shell of somekind and it were playing with it causing it to explode. The housing developer built the houses on top of a WW2 practice range, or real close to one. Upon further inspection of the area several more were found. Stan

Anonymous-0 · Nov 3, 2008

There was an article in National Geographic [I think] a few years ago about this. The French are still finding shells from WWI; some with gas. They hire people to gather and dispose of them.

Spook · Nov 3, 2008

I met a guy a few years ago, he was in the Belgium army, in the bomb squad. He told me that the averaged 22 tons of bombs per year. Some dating to the Franco - Prussian war of 1870.

Mark · Nov 3, 2008

Was that the one hosted by Jane Fonda?

Jeff-oh · Nov 3, 2008

That is nothing comparred to the number of land mines that are planted and still planted every year around the world.

In the early 1990's a landmine dating back to the US civil war was found. Wooded barrel filled with dry gun powder. The judgement was that it still could have gone off 130 years after the fact.

kyplowboy · Nov 3, 2008

My grandfather's family got ran off their farm by camp breckinridge and they moved here, just out side of it beside my grandmother's family farm. Most all the camp is farm ground now. They still find stuff, but up into the 70's people would plow up live rounds. There were some people killed when they would dig up a live round that did not go off back in the day. Granddad always said thats what they get for buy'n stolen ground.

My grand mother's aunt lived less than a half mile from the camp. They dropped a shell on her barn roof one night. Granddad found it the next morning with hogs lay'n around it. He did not know it was live, called raise'n cain about the barn roof. They came out and packed the shell out in the field and blew it up. He said it left a 5' hole in the ground, and the "camo pigs" would not fill it in for him. There is not much left of the barn now, but you can still see where they patched the roof on the west side.

Dave

Anonymous-0 · Nov 3, 2008

I few years ago I rented some land that was owned by goverment and leased to the Ottawa Duck Club. It was behind the burms for a shooting range for the military. We were only allowed to work at night or some days but always had to check first.We would find some bullets every time we plowed and disced. Ther were two bigs holes in one field,I was told they were from some sort of bomb that was dropped ther years ago. Almost lost the tractor in one in the middle of the night.Some nights they drive the cadets and troops down the road and drop them off a couple miles away and they had to find their way back to camp. They would use the drainage ditches to get back to camp. Sometimes we would see them crawling through the corn fields when combining. Kinda startels you at first when you see these guys in full gear and guns sneeking through the fields.

bill mart · Nov 3, 2008

guy recently was killed while cleaning up a rusty civil war era cannonball

Anonymous-0 · Nov 3, 2008

My father found a 100 pounder parrot shell back when he was young. No one could figure how it got where he was ploughing.I was able to find what it was by useing the internet.The cannon that would shoot it was 8000 plus pounds.It is filled with gun power and grape shot. I guess i am lucky it did not go off when i dropped it.

northener · Nov 3, 2008

No actually it was hosted by the canadian goverment who were trying to get countries together to stop the use of land mines. Incidentally your country refused to the agreement. Thats why they showed what you left behind in vietnam cambodia and many more countries.

gregk · Nov 3, 2008

grandpa can remember plowing in the field and hitting something. He went back to look and found half of a dummy bomb dropped from a plane. started asking around and someone saw a plane drop 3 objects. He also tells of a neighbor around that same time that had one come through the roof of his hoghouse

Stinky Cheese · Nov 4, 2008

You could only farm at night? That makes perfect sense to me, god knows wars only happen in the daytime and there is no need at all to try and learn to hit a target in the dark.

Chris in SK · Nov 4, 2008

When I lived in the UK, unexploded bombs were occasionally dug up, mostly during construction work. Most of the WWII bombs that are still around are the ones that hit wet ground and went in deep, so aren’t usually a problem until you start digging deep for build foundations etc.
Where I lived by the coast shipping mines were washed up after storms, or dragged up in trawler nets. These were usually detonated on the beach, and would rattle the house windows! There was a wreck of a munitions ship in shallow water in the mouth of the river Thames, that has a no go zone around it because it is loaded with explosives.
Some of the land that I worked on had been WWII USAF base. We plough up .50 cal machine gun casings, and the odd live round, along with the usual broken glass and mangled bits of metal.
Chris

Mark · Nov 4, 2008

well, I guess you socialists are gonna $hit when you find out what we leave in Iraq. When you"re engaged in a war....you do what is necessary. Obviously, you don"t hang a sign that says "Land Mine HERE". It is apparent we didn"t plant enough while we were in SEA.

Anonymous-0 · Nov 6, 2008

Younger brother was stationed Germany early 70s- ordinance company close to French border area. Company got called out about once or twice a month for leftover American ordinance found- artillery shells and bombs were big excavations and blow at times, odd grenades were sometimes being used as soccer/footballs. Some mines found on drainage projects- couple found the hard way. When he got out and was working for construction outfit draining some land he got the job of planting ditching dinamite- 40% nitro- with ANFO bags. RN

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