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walfy



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Made me Smile
As most will know, I'm not a big fan of the RAF but it seems that they have performed at last.
It seems that the RAF left a little something behind only for it to be found this year

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I have endless respect for all armed forces, the loss of life on these long range bombing missions into occupied europe was incredible as the Nazi's had very good AAA guns and also good aircraft which picked the Lancasters, B17's etc off one by one, sometimes only one would return!

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walfy



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When they were used cluster munitions had a % set that wouldn't detonate. That way you get the damage from the ones that did and the issue of disposing of the misfires before dealing with the damage 110 D250 SE HT
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Wouldn't want to be near that when it goes off Shocked
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Procta



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A WW2 bomb was found close to where I live, this is going back to about 2003? That was found when they were doing the foundations for some centre I think.
From what I was told the digger nearly put the scoop into the thing Shocked Until one of the lads said hang on, that looks like a bomb!
The full area was evacuated and they set it off down the beach, they waited till practically the middle of the night to set it off. Shocked
The area where the bomb was found was close to where the local ship yards used to be.
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