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Gerald
10-13-20, 08:11 AM
[NFA] Underwater footage from the Polish navy reveals an enormous task facing divers, who are attempting to defuse the largest unexploded World War Two bomb ever found in the country. It's called a "Tallboy." Joe Davies reports.

https://www.reuters.com/video/watch/divers-begin-defusing-huge-unexploded-ww-id720639858?chan=8gwsyvzx

A huge one....many still exists.
Jimbuna
10-13-20, 08:17 AM
Precisely what was used to sink the Tirpitz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hVOvmOiNk4
Gerald
10-13-20, 08:33 AM
Precisely what was used to sink the Tirpitz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hVOvmOiNk4 True! However, thinks that this operation should be given credit,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Source certainly includes other German ship, but should be mentioned in any case. "Tallboy"
stood for the stroke of mercy.
Jimbuna
10-13-20, 08:38 AM
Physically touched this one before taking the photograph in 2017

https://i.postimg.cc/2SZcsqxB/IMG-0545.jpg (https://postimages.org/)
Gerald
10-13-20, 08:43 AM
Exhibition...?
Jimbuna
10-13-20, 10:22 AM
Elvingto museum
Gerald
10-13-20, 01:13 PM
Exploded ... something went "wrong" or intentionally.

The largest unexploded World War Two bomb ever found in Poland has detonated during the defusing process, a Polish Navy spokesman said.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54522203
Jimbuna
10-13-20, 01:19 PM
No fatalities.
Aktungbby
10-13-20, 01:58 PM
if your infantry support Stuka is doing a 1 bomb flying artillery sorty whilst your Lancastrian opponent is blasting your remaining Tirpitz in a fjord and principle cities with the 'cookie" Tallboy bomb'....you ain't gonna win the war! Weird!:k_confused: No
sooner do I casually mention an obscure thing: person, place, event etc. than it becomes a real news matter??! Freaks out my wife with whom, while watching an old 12 O'clock high TV episode Sunday night, I had discussed the Tallboy attacks from Lancasters vs puny B-17 loads, later prompting my comment in Who What Where thread... :o Henty-Creer of X5 was not decorated,(like the other minisub commanders in the Tirpitz attack) but was ''mentioned in dispatches'' is appalling! https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/The_Royal_Navy_during_the_Second_World_War_A19637. jpg/1024px-The_Royal_Navy_during_the_Second_World_War_A19637. jpg
Gerald
10-13-20, 02:04 PM
Weird!:k_confused: No
sooner do I casually mention an obscure thing: person, place, event etc. than it becomes a real news matter??! Freaks out my wife with whom, while watching an old 12 O'clock high TV episode Sunday night, I had discussed the Tallboy attacks from Lancasters vs puny B-17 loads, later prompting my comment in Who What Where thread... :o Small world! :yep:
mapuc
10-13-20, 04:06 PM
A positive sidenote must be the bomb was under 12 meters of water-which must have increased the damage the bomb may have created if it was on land.

Markus
Jimbuna
10-14-20, 05:00 AM
A positive sidenote must be the bomb was under 12 meters of water-which must have increased the damage the bomb may have created if it was on land.

Markus

Very true and especially knowing what one of them did to Tirpitz.
Jimbuna
10-14-20, 05:03 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ7eBRObljg
Gerald
10-14-20, 05:56 AM
Quite a powerful underwater bang.
Jimbuna
10-14-20, 06:02 AM
Aye at 12,000 lb hardly surprising.
Platapus
10-14-20, 06:37 AM
Looks like they were trying to burn the bomb, which is a legitimate way of rendering it safe.
Jimbuna
10-14-20, 06:42 AM
Looks like they were trying to burn the bomb, which is a legitimate way of rendering it safe.

Don't wish to appear disrespectful but I was wondering if they were sufficiently trained or at least asked the advice of the place of origin.