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JCFalkenbergIII · #26 (**permalink**) March 14th, 2008, 05:23 PM

World War II-era shells found in Palmyra

Burlington County Times

PALMYRA — Munitions experts have uncovered several World War II-era shells on the grounds of the Tacony-Palmyra Flea Market off Route 73.
Workers with Munitions Management Group of Knoxville, Tenn., made the discovery during a sweep of the area, which was the site of a firing range for a top-secret U.S. Army testing program of recoilless rifles in the 1940s.
The site eventually became the home of a drive-in movie theater and, later, the Tacony-Palmyra Flea Market. It is now part of a borough redevelopment area,
Mayor John Gural said the munitions team detonated some of the shells earlier in the week and expects to detonate the rest tomorrow.

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/ne...8-1503021.html

JCFalkenbergIII · #27 (**permalink**) March 21st, 2008, 05:16 PM

'Unexploded WWII bomb' discovered

An Army bomb disposal team was called to the scene

Police have cordoned off part of Stoke-on-Trent after what is believed to be an unexploded World War Two bomb was discovered.
An Army bomb disposal team has been sent to Chatterley Road, Tunstall, to investigate.
Staffordshire Police were alerted just after 1300 GMT by a member of the public who said they had spotted a device.
A spokesman said it was not in an "immediately residential area". Ch Insp Dave Mellor, of Staffordshire Police, said: "We have cordoned off the area and are taking the necessary steps to ensure as a top priority the safety of the local community, and hope to resolve the situation as soon as is possible. "Officers are on site providing information and reassurance to the local community."

BBC NEWS | England | Staffordshire | 'Unexploded WWII bomb' discovered

JCFalkenbergIII · #28 (**permalink**) March 21st, 2008, 06:16 PM

World War II munitions found in Hungary

Published: March 21, 2008 at 12:34 PM

BUDAPEST, Hungary, March 21 (UPI) -- Police in northern Hungary seized more than half a ton of World War II artillery shells apparently rejected by a scrap dealer, national media said.

Police in the city of Vecs were called Thursday to a home where a large pile of artillery shells and more than 1,000 live bullet cartridges had been dumped in the front yard, the MTI news agency reported.

After questioning the residents, police determined the 1940s-era munitions had been dug up in a nearby forest and sold to a scrap dealer. The dealer carted the material away but apparently realized the hazard and returned and dumped it, the report said.

Police said they turned the haul over to the military for defusing and destruction.

World War II munitions found in Hungary - UPI.com

JCFalkenbergIII · #29 (**permalink**) March 22nd, 2008, 09:53 PM

Inert WWII grenade found on car

Saturday, March 22, 2008
Grenage prompted an evacuation of business

SANTA FE SPRINGS -- Authorities say someone left an inert World War II-era grenade on a car parked in front of a bar in Santa Fe Springs, prompting them to evacuate the place.
Deputies found the grenade after receiving a call about a fight at the Bikini Hut bar early Saturday morning. Bomb squad officials determined the grenade was just a shell.
<p. Authorities say the grenade did not belong to the owner of the car it was placed on. Police say they detained a man for questioning.

abc7.com: Inert World War II-era grenade found on SoCal car 3/22/08

JCFalkenbergIII · #30 (**permalink**) March 23rd, 2008, 06:12 PM

Dud U.S. bomb from World War II removed in Nagoya

Sunday, March 23, 2008 at 13:45 EST NAGOYA — A bomb-disposal unit of the Ground Self-Defense Force on Saturday removed a dud U.S. bomb of World War II vintage from a housing construction site in Nagoya's Higashi Ward. Some 3,000 nearby residents were evacuated.
The 1.2-meter, 250-kilogram bomb is believed to have been dropped by the U.S. military during World War II. It was found March 10.

Japan Today - News - Dud U.S. bomb from World War II removed in Nagoya

JCFalkenbergIII · #31 (**permalink**) March 24th, 2008, 05:00 AM

Unexploded WWII bomb discovered

Kent Police say the bomb does not pose any threat

A suspected unexploded World War II bomb has been discovered on a beach in Kent, police have said.
The bomb, said to be 8in (20.3cm) in diameter, was found on Broadstairs beach, near the town's pier. Police have cordoned off the area while bomb disposal experts from the Royal Marines investigate. It is not yet known if they will carry out a controlled explosion or try to defuse it. The officer in charge said no one was in any danger.

BBC NEWS | UK | England | Kent | Unexploded WWII bomb discovered

JCFalkenbergIII · #32 (**permalink**) April 4th, 2008, 02:54 AM

<B>2 WW II grenades found in South Side lot

April 3, 2008
STNG News Service

JCFalkenbergIII · #33 (**permalink**) April 4th, 2008, 02:58 AM

2 WW II grenades found in South Side lot

2 WW II grenades found in South Side lot :: The SouthtownStar :: News

JCFalkenbergIII · #34 (**permalink**) April 10th, 2008, 12:37 AM

WWII mortar found in old stables

A bomb disposal team has safely removed what is thought to be a World War II mortar from old stables under renovation in Powys.
Dyfed-Powys Police said the suspicious object was found opposite the Royal Oak pub in East Street, Rhayader, on Tuesday at about 1800 BST.
An area in East Street was sealed off while a disposal team removed the "inert mortar," said police.
It is not clear how the device came to be in the stables.
A police spokeswoman said: "Renovation work was being carried out at the site, and what was believed to be an old explosive device was found.
"The explosive ordnance disposal team was contacted, and they subsequently removed an inert mortar. "No evacuation or road closures were necessary." No homes were evacuated or roads closed.

BBC NEWS | Wales | Mid Wales | WWII mortar found in old stables

JCFalkenbergIII · #35 (**permalink**) April 11th, 2008, 08:45 PM

Island sealed off after bomb find

The mine will be detonated on Friday

A mile-wide exclusion zone has been set up round a WWII German mine that has washed up on a Somerset beach.
A Royal Navy bomb disposal team was called to Stert Island in Bridgwater Bay after a fisherman spotted the device on Thursday.
The 10ft (3m) long mine, which would have been dropped by a plane to disrupt shipping lanes, contains 700kg of explosives.
The bomb disposal team said it would be detonated later on Friday.
'Catastrophic'
Police have reassured residents there is no threat to them or Hinkley Point power station, some seven miles away.
Most of the mine is buried under sand.
Royal Navy clearance diver, Petty Officer Keith Satchwell, said: "I'd say two thirds of it are high explosives, so catastrophic, the damage it could cause if it went off."
Burnham-on-Sea Coastguards called out two rescue hovercraft, The Spirit Of Lelaina and Light Of Elizabeth, which took members of the Navy Explosives team out to the scene.
Station officer Steve Bird added: "The bomb is partially covered in mud and can only be accessed at low tide so using the hovercrafts is essential."
The mine is in the Bridgwater Bay Nature Reserve, and has only recently become visible with shifting sands and mud.
'Incredibly lucky'
Bridgwater Bay is home to around 190 species of birds and several sites of historical interest, including 12th Century fish weirs.
Dr Helen Phillips, chief executive of Natural England, said: "The mudflats, sandbanks and salt marshes are nationally and internationally important feeding grounds and roosting sites for wintering waterfowl and waders- including shelduck, curlew, oystercatcher and redshank. "We feel incredibly lucky the situation did not occur any earlier in the year as these species have only just left for their summer breeding ground - the circumstances could have been far more serious. "The fossil beds and the submerged forest, which are protected within the National Nature Reserve are fortunately all out of range."

BBC NEWS | England | Somerset | Island sealed off after bomb find

JCFalkenbergIII · #36 (**permalink**) April 11th, 2008, 08:48 PM

Student brings WWII grenade to school

Published: April 10, 2008 at 4:25 PM

DENNIS, Mass., April 10 (UPI) -- Students were evacuated from a Massachusetts school after an 8-year-old boy carried a hand grenade into his class for show-and-tell, officials said.

The Ezra Baker School student openly admitted to his teacher he brought the grenade into class in his backpack Wednesday, WCVB-TV, Boston, reported. The teacher reportedly told the school principal, who then notified authorities.

Some 400 children were removed from the school after the grenade was located. Authorities said the 8-year-old was carrying an inert device from World War II.

Dennis police took possession of the grenade and gave it to state officials for disposal, WCVB reported.

Letters were sent home to parents, advising them to look into their children's backpacks in the morning.

Student brings WWII grenade to school - UPI.com

JCFalkenbergIII · #37 (**permalink**) April 16th, 2008, 01:33 AM

WWII-era chemical weapons found on island of Oahu
Associated Press
Last update: April 15, 2008 - 3:22 PM

SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii - The Army says it is ready to begin destroying a stockpile of old chemical weapons found during cleanup of a training range on the island of Oahu.
The Army calls it the largest concentration of unexploded chemical weapons ever found in the U.S.
Most of the artillery shells and other weapons contain the choking agent phosgene and one holds an agent that causes a reaction like tear gas.
The Army says the weapons were produced beginning in World War I and were stockpiled at the Schofield Barracks military base through World War II.
Army officials say a system called a Transportable Detonation Chamber will contain the weapons while they are destroyed one at a time with explosives. Heat and a series of filters will neutralize their poisonous contents.

Army prepared to destroy WWI- and WWII-era chemical weapons found on island of Oahu

JCFalkenbergIII · #38 (**permalink**) April 21st, 2008, 04:05 PM

WWII shell found at waste centre

Two World War II weapons have been found in Staffordshire within 24 hours.
Police were called to Bemmersley Household Waste Recycling Centre, near Biddulph, on Sunday, after a shell from a Spitfire was found.
The area was cordoned off as Army bomb disposal experts carried out a controlled explosion in a nearby field, a police spokesman said.
On Monday, bomb disposal experts were called to Stoke-on-Trent after a grenade was found in a garden shed.
Staffordshire Police said the occupants of the house in Gordon Crescent went to a friend's home while the disposal team worked at the site.
Police warning
The grenade was dismantled and was found to have already been decommissioned.
The shell found at the waste site was among four items left in one of the scrap units.
Police warned people not to take anything of this nature to waste sites. A spokesman said: "A number of these items may have been retained by members of the public over a period of years. "If in doubt about the disposal of such items, in the interests of safety leave them in position and contact police."

BBC NEWS | England | Staffordshire | WWII shell found at waste centre

JCFalkenbergIII · #39 (**permalink**) April 24th, 2008, 08:49 PM

WWII shell causes scare in Pelham

By Robert Mills, rmills@lowellsun.com
Article Last Updated: 04/24/2008 11:37:05 AM EDT

PELHAM -- The wooden sign in front of the Pelham Fire Station warned of a high fire risk yesterday afternoon, and the 22-inch artillery shell brought to the front door did little to ease that danger.
The fire station was evacuated, a block of Route 111A in the town center was closed, and the New Hampshire State Police bomb squad was called in after an apparently well-intentioned man brought the artillery round to the station about 4:45 p.m.
The 39-year-old Pelham man drove to the station in a white utility van topped with ladders on a rack, the artillery round in the passenger seat, and spoke to firefighters about properly disposing of it, Police Chief Joseph Roark said.
"The lieutenant took a look at it and said, 'Oh, my goodness,'" Fire Chief Michael Walker said.
The man was not sure of the shell's origin or if it was safe, police said.
Walker and Pelham police were called in, a perimeter was set up, fire engines were evacuated from their bays, which were well within the potential "blast zone," as the wait for the bomb squad began.
Though the World War II-era Navy round turned out to be unarmed, Roark said no one was about to take any chances with an explosive shell that measured 22 inches long and 4 inches thick.
"If that was a live round, it would be very serious," he said.
Two troopers with the bomb squad took possession of the shell after donning metal helmets and flak jackets to get close enough to examine it. There
were about a half-dozen firefighters in the station at the time, both on duty and off, but Walker said they stayed on hand in case they were needed at the scene. Mutual-aid companies were contacted in case there were other calls, but none came in during the two hours it took to make sure the shell was safe, Walker said.
Roark said the man told police he had the shell, a family heirloom the origins of which he did not know, in his garage for years.
"He had no ill will toward anyone," Roark said. "He seemed like a nice guy."
Roark declined to identify the man, who will not face any charges.
Anyone else with such an item in their family should call the Fire Department if they want to dispose of it.
"If anyone has these items, they should certainly not transport them," Roark said. Firefighters or police will come to the item's location to check it out.

WWII shell causes scare in Pelham - Lowell Sun Online

JCFalkenbergIII · #40 (**permalink**) April 24th, 2008, 08:56 PM

Army to detonate WWII munitions found on former bomb range in Orlando

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- The Army Corps of Engineers will detonate more World War II-era munitions found at a former Orlando bombing range this week.
The corps has been investigating munitions found on the former Army bombing range. Roughly 42 more live bombs and projectiles -- including one 100-pound "burster bomb" -- have been discovered there.
Since July, more than 220 other bombs and rockets have been discovered.

WSVN-TV - Local News - Army to detonate WWII munitions found on former bomb range in Orlando

JCFalkenbergIII · #41 (**permalink**) April 28th, 2008, 07:06 PM

Published April 27, 2008 10:20 pm - A Mercer-area teenager riding his four-wheelers Saturday evening stumbled upon a World War II-era bomb.

Teenager finds WWII-era bomb
Inert relic being given to Army

By Tom Davidson
Herald Staff Writer

EAST LACKAWANNOCK TOWNSHIP —
Warning: Don’t try this at home.

Sixteen-year-old Adam Bortz was out riding his four-wheeler Saturday evening in the shadow of the McCandless Ford-Mercury dealership outside Mercer.
“I got off of it,” he said, and was walking around the woods when he said he stumbled on what turned out to be a World War II-era mortar.
“I tripped over the fins,” of the partially-buried shell, he said.
“I loaded it up on the four-wheeler and brought it back home,” he said, dropping it once on the way.
Then he showed it to mom.
“She was like, ‘Where did you get that?’,” Adam, a sophomore at Mercer Area High School, said.
They loaded it into a pickup and took it about 2 miles to family friend Ron Bequeath.
“They weren’t sure what it was,” Bequeath said.
Bequeath said it looked like an old mortar and called state police.
“It had the potential of being real (armed),” Trooper Michael Fennell said.
Police called in a bomb squad from Harrisburg that arrived about 2 a.m., Fennell said.
“This is a pretty substantial size (mortar),” Fennell said.
The squad secured it and determined it was inert, Fennell said.
“In this case there appears to have been no danger,” he said.

The bomb squad took the mortar, which Fennell said weighed about 40 pounds.

“It would take a World War II vet” to identify it, he said.
Per procedure, it will be turned over to the Army today, he said.
Although it turned out OK, Fennell said this isn’t what to do if you find one of these relics of the past.
“Call us immediately,” Fennell said. “Don’t touch it. We have our own bomb squad

The Herald, Sharon, Pa. - Teenager finds WWII-era bomb

JCFalkenbergIII · #42 (**permalink**) April 29th, 2008, 07:12 PM

More Than 200 WWII Artillery Shells Found At Old Drive-In

Authorities Detonate Old Munitions To Prepare For Development

POSTED: 3:52 pm EDT April 28, 2008
UPDATED: 6:35 pm EDT April 28, 2008

BURLINGTON COUNTY, N.J. -- In South Jersey, the discovery of unexploded artillery shells from World War II has stalled plans to develop a new expo center.
The sheer number of artillery shells staggered the mayor.

It was found at the now closed Palmyra Drive-In Theater on Route 73.
People who work next to the old theater said they've been hearing authorities detonate old Army munitions on Thursdays.The old munitions were found on the site that the borough wants to develop.
"We were hoping, hoping to only find one or two or three maybe. We're now up to nearly 200, or 181 as reported to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, but there's since been another 20," Palmyra Mayor John Gural, Jr. said.
The Army was anxious to develop new anti-tank rounds for the military during World War II. So the secret test site was what later became the Palmyra Drive-In Theater.
The artillery shells were developed over at the Frankford Arsenal. And while some were tested on the site of what was to be the drive-in, other shells got there the old fashion way -- the Army actually fired them from Philadelphia, across the river, into Palmyra.
When the war ended, the Army said the site was cleaned up. The land returned to civilian use, which in this case became a drive-in, complete with concession stands.
"It's scary. We've literally been living in a minefield out there for all of these years," Gural said. "All of the shells are, have live fuses. Some of them contain high explosive materials."
Thousand upon thousands of men, women, and children used those concession stands over the years. And probably few of them ever knew what was really buried beneath the land.
John Kozierachi owns a business right next to the old drive-in and remembers being there in the good old days.
"I did when I was a kid, yes I did. Obviously, you wouldn't go back," Kozierachi, of Pennsauken, said.
"How long have they been there?" Marie Furey, of Cinnaminson, said. "So, that should have been closed a long time ago."
When the drive-in closed, the site was used for a flea market. Police ordered it shut down in March because some of the shells were sticking out of the ground.
Until the shells are removed, the development of a 200,000-square-foot expo center -- a revenue maker for Palmyra -- is on hold.

More Than 200 WWII Artillery Shells Found At Old Drive-In - Local News Story - WCAU | Philadelphia

JCFalkenbergIII · #43 (**permalink**) May 1st, 2008, 01:42 AM

WWII munitions lurk near Tacony-Palmyra Bridge

By Sam Wood
Inquirer Staff Writer
Families flocked to the drive-in near the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge for four decades. In its heyday, cars packed with children lined up on Route 73 to get in.
The marquee trumpeted a smattering of hits: Mel Brooks' comic masterpiece Blazing Saddles was screened there in 1974.
More often it was home to cinematic bombs. The big-bug epic Empire of the Ants, starring Joan Collins, had a brief run in 1977.
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