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WWII Bomb found in Blueberry field
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Re: WWII Bomb found in Blueberry field
Nice exploding at the end.
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Re: WWII Bomb found in Blueberry field
correct me if I'm wrong here, but I thought practice bombs had no explosive charge? so why did they detonate it! couldn't they have checked it and saved it!?
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Re: WWII Bomb found in Blueberry field
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correct me if I'm wrong here, but I thought practice bombs had no explosive charge? so why did they detonate it! couldn't they have checked it and saved it!?
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I thought that too, but I dont know how it looked like in those days, but didn't they say they dropped it to practice? Maybe that wanted to see how big the explosion would be?
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Re: WWII Bomb found in Blueberry field
well I just listened to it again and the state police officer said "where it came from..they did practicing of dropping bombs." so I'm confused, I wouldint think that they would drop a live bomb in Maine, although it is pretty sparsely populated up there! but I could be wrong!
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Re: WWII Bomb found in Blueberry field
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well I just listened to it again and the state police officer said "where it came from..they did practicing of dropping bombs." so I'm confused, I wouldint think that they would drop a live bomb in Maine, although it is pretty sparsely populated up there! but I could be wrong!
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Well. The explosion didn't was that big, so I think the amount of explosives was reduced.
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Re: WWII Bomb found in Blueberry field
Could have been a 'live' fire practice. Didn't the navy do that at bikini atoll?
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