On May 5, 2013, Israeli security forces had a logistically complex mission – to neutralize a rusty WWII bomb that was recently discovered in north Tel Aviv. The bomb was found adjacent to a new neighborhood in Tel Aviv when a police officer accidently came across it during a routine search of the area. Once it was exposed, the security [...]
When Henry Southall collected the keys to his new home he didn’t expect to find an unexploded bomb from the Second World War in a kitchen cupboard. The 24-year-old was giving his parents the guided tour of the house in Borth y Gest, near Porhmadog, in north west Wales, when he found the 16lb artillery shell which was packed with [...]
By: Ellen Connolly Two boys were killed and several other children injured when a mortar shell exploded as they played with it in central Vietnam. Two Vietnamese boys, aged 11, were killed and six children injured while they played with an old mortar shell they found on their way to school. Village official Nguyen Sy Thong said Wednesday the shell was [...]
More than 50 million bombs, shells, detonators and cartridges from World War II are rusting away on the floor of the North and Baltic Seas or are washing up on beaches. Authorities are opting not to remove the ordnance — and hoping no one gets hurt. Lorenz Marquardt has been sailing the Baltic Sea for more than 53 years, but [...]
A US-based group is hoping to begin clearing the Marshall Islands of unexploded weapons, ammunition and ordinance left over from World War 2. The Marshall Islands was the scene of fierce fighting between the US and Japan during the Second World War. The US-based Golden West Humanitarian Foundation has just completed a survey of two of the country’s atolls, and [...]
An unexploded 220-pound Second World War bomb has been discovered at a construction site near Berlin’s main train station, causing disruption to rail and road traffic in the heart of the German capital. Bomb disposal experts at the scene where an unexploded bomb was discovered at Central Station in Berlin Photo: EPA/MARC TIRL By Jeevan Vasagar, Berlin A police spokesman said that the [...]
In 1938, German General Werner von Fritsch made a prediction. “The military with the best photo reconnaissance,” he said, “will win the next war.” Barely six years later, he was proven correct. Between 1940 and 1944, 2.7 million tons of bombs were dropped on Germany and occupied Europe by British and American bombers. Each bombing raid was guided by extensive [...]
A DAY’s fishing turned into a bit of a blast for a Shoreham skipper and his crew yesterday (Thursday) when they discovered a 500lb British bomb in their nets. The bomb, said to be in pristine conditions, was pulled to the surface in nets by the Joanna C, a scallop trawler, as it moved along the coast off Beachy Head. [...]
Forty years after the secret U.S. bombing that devastated Laos, heirs to the war’s deadly legacy of undetonated explosives are touring America to prod the conscience of the world’s most powerful nation for more help to clear up the mess. Two young Laotians — one a bomb disposal technician, the other the victim of an accidental explosion — arrived Friday [...]
Today up to 250,000 potentially lethal Allied bombs remain buried in German soil. In the final act of the conflict, a team of photographic sleuths in Edinburgh is helping to find them There is no traffic on the roads as Oliver Kinast speeds to work in a 4×4 pick-up. He passes police barriers that seal off deserted streets, in this [...]
87 shipwrecks, most from WWII, could leak oil near US, but no ‘ticking time bombs’May 22, 2013
Cold War cartography: Mapping where Soviets could – and could not – go in 1950′s AmericaMay 21, 2013
New monument honors ‘overlooked’ WWII aviators killed in training at Columbia baseMay 21, 2013
P-38 Lightning Crash Site at Siar IslandMay 21, 2013
WWI German submarine has underwater Lake Michigan graveMay 21, 2013
Billionaire Paul Allen gets V-2 rocket for aviation museum near SeattleMay 21, 2013
Pictures emerge of Field Marshal Montgomery visiting pivotal El Alamein battlefield 25 years after he defeated the GermansMay 21, 2013
Blown out of proportion? Student arrested for posing by Russian WWII memorial with an inflatable sex dollMay 21, 2013
Is it illegal to wear medals you weren’t awarded?May 21, 2013
A selection of impressive black and white photographs of that uneasy year 1943May 21, 2013
Fighter pilot reunited with tough little KittyhawkMay 21, 2013
2011: Intact German WW1 uboat found off IrelandMay 21, 2013
Rhidian Brook: my grandfather inspired my bestselling novelMay 21, 2013
Unthinkable? Putting the second world war to restMay 21, 2013
A wonderful tribute to veterans at the PixMay 21, 2013
Monument to the 1,200 Guardsmen, Kaliningrad, RussiaMay 20, 2013
Russia and Japan seek agreement to end WWIIMay 20, 2013
Top Ten United States Fighter Pilot Aces from WWIIMay 20, 2013
Save The Willow Run Bomber PlantMay 20, 2013
New Dam Busters film on hold!May 20, 2013
