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Who knows how many more of these are left?Thousands of WWII-Era Bombs Discovered in Germany
The Germans as well as many Western European countries have great EOD teams. It is extremely common for bombs to be found when doing construction. They even found bombs when they were building the new US embassy in Berlin and the Holocaust Memorial that is right next to it.
Unfortunately, things like this still happen:World War Two bomb explodes in Germany, three dead
I saw this on Drudge today and we were just talking about it at work. What makes this unusual is that they were unsuccessful at defusing it.They are still pulling shells out of WWI battlefields as well. They call it the Iron Harvest and if you drive through the old front zone during spring plowing you will stacks of shells on the side of the road waiting for the French EOD teams to come pick them up. You have to figure they fired something like 50 million artillery shells during WWI and they had a dud rate of between 20-50% means there are still lots of shells buried and unaccounted for. When I was in Slovenia a few months ago the guide told me that in parts of the Alps there are still artillery pieces with stacks of shells next to them in some places because the terrain was so rugged it was not felt worth the effort to recover them after the war. I know that high in the Dolomites there are still battlefields covered with unrecovered bodies because the battlefield itself is above the snow line and it was felt that recovering the bodies would cost more casualties because of the extreme conditions.
So are the people who died trying to defuse these bombs added to the number of casualties from WWII?
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