Reply Mon 23 Oct, 2006 08:49 am
Damn wars leave little presents all over the place. Memorabilia. I dug out duds for six months, not a walk in the park.
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World War II Bomb Explodes on German Motorway
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A highway construction worker in Germany accidentally struck an unexploded World War II bomb, causing an explosion which killed him and wrecked several passing cars.
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Allied pilots rained nearly 2 million tons of explosives on Germany during the war. Landmines, hand grenades, mortar bombs and anti-tank devices from the fighting on German soil at the end of the war are also found and authorities say it will take decades before the country is cleared of duds.
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Between 400 and 600 bombs are discovered a year in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia alone, where the heavily industrialized Ruhr region was a major target for Allied fighter pilots.
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http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,444119,00.html
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