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It looks in pretty good condition actually. The detonator was apparently removed and it seems harmless at this point. A similar one was found near Tours last month. The funniest story I read about these finds was in 2005 when they found one in Patay , evacuated the whole area, only to realise it was a concrete training bomb.

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Still doesn't mean it can't explode. Bombs are very dangerous. This bomb still layed down over 60 years in the waters so.. But anyway I don't wanna test it to see if it still does explode.

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sure. The one they found in Tours was too unstable so they buried in into sand and made it explode. Even when buried it was still impressive.

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Thanks for the information about Tours. Didn't knew that.

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They find them constantly here in Holland; when they dig up a plane or at some building site. Not to long ago they found two in a build up area of Amsterdam, where the two "strays" landed. One had been lying under somebody's doormat for the last 60 odd years....Obviously they evacuated the whole neighborhood when they defused the thing. Also in Purmerend where they found one at a building site..then another...evacuated the area to detonate them...then they found yet another....

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Same in Belgium. Well... We still find many WWII and WWI bombs.

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I see your bomb and raise you to a 1,500lb parachute mine.

BBC NEWS | England | Kent | WWII mine still to be made safe

Second one found in the last two months, they take them out to sea and blow them up which makes quite a bang. Following concerns after they blew the last one up they decided to take this one out a little further. Failed to detonate it though, but did manage to make a hole in the net holding it. This meant they lost it, and had to spend a day finding it again. They detonated it on the sea floor so hardly a sound ashore.

Thank you for posting this parachute mine picture, this is really interesting.

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Nice Picture, thanks for the picture!

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A fair amount of delay is being caused down at the 2012 Olympics site in East London due to contractors' worries about What May Lie Beneath......

The area has been marshland since time immemorial and during the Blitz a fair few bombs dropped there - most of them going 'Plop !' and burying themselves in the mud......

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yikes, hate to be the contractor in charge there!!

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This is a pair of Dutch resistance crystal radios, built into a small metal can, and a matchbox. The image is from a postcard bought at a Dutch Resistance Museum in Amsterdam. The matchbox is marked in Swedish, but Swedish matches were sold in Holland for many years..
Scott

I hear they start to contract contracters who have been to Iraq....They have the experience

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