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Jimbuna
03-22-14, 07:25 AM
Probably the quickest scramble they've ever performed :)

Air aces the Red Arrows took to the skies this week fearing that they could be blown up by the Luftwaffe.
The nine jets scrambled from their base at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire after Second World War bombs were found there.
Bomb disposal experts rushed to the site to defuse the unexploded devices thought to have been dropped by the Germans around 70 years ago.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2586704/Revenge-Hermann-Goering-Red-Arrows-skies-Second-World-War-Luftwaffe-bombs-base.html

Dread Knot
03-22-14, 07:31 AM
As if that's not bad enough, the Kaiser is still getting his licks in almost one hundred years later.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26654314

Jimbuna
03-22-14, 07:38 AM
That's tragic :nope:

The device was set off as workmen at a building site in Ypres were trying to dig it up.

Why not just leave it and call army bomb disposal? :hmmm:

August
03-22-14, 08:31 AM
As if that's not bad enough, the Kaiser is still getting his licks in almost one hundred years later.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26654314

Sad. Just as easily could have been a present from King George V though.

Betonov
03-22-14, 09:22 AM
WWI ordinance is found daily along the Soča (Isonzo) front.

Scavenging is popular along the local populace :nope:
I understand a bayonet or helmet, but those idiots bring grenades and shells home

Schroeder
03-22-14, 09:49 AM
Unexploded world war munitions are very common. I myself once was evacuated from work as an allied WWII bomb was found at a building site nearby. They find something pretty much every day.:-?

Jimbuna
03-22-14, 04:31 PM
Unexploded world war munitions are very common. I myself once was evacuated from work as an allied WWII bomb was found at a building site nearby. They find something pretty much every day.:-?

Rgr that.