Scars of Munich's War (1 Viewer)

[Rob]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ed-bomb-detonated-fiery-explosion-Munich.html

 

[Mitch]

Interesting story cheers for posting! I like how in everyone of these shown and reported they have to put the amounts dropped by the allies against what the germans dropped???

They reckon their is a fair few littered around the UK also. I always like to read the comments at the end some bright sparks!!!
Mitch

 

[Rob]

Interesting story cheers for posting! I like how in everyone of these shown and reported they have to put the amounts dropped by the allies against what the germans dropped???

They reckon their is a fair few littered around the UK also. I always like to read the comments at the end some bright sparks!!!
Mitch

Mitch,

Talking of bright sparks, who had the idea of putting hay bales everywhere?!{eek3}

Rob

 

[Scott]

Glad they saved the McDonalds.

 

[Mitch]

Rob...

Not bad for Firemen!! wrap a HE bomb in dry hay and expect it not to......?? Fill in the blanks to become the next Chief of munchens fire department!!!
Mitch

Mitch,

Talking of bright sparks, who had the idea of putting hay bales everywhere?!{eek3}

Rob

 

[Scott]

C.D. Bales: I have a dream. It's not a big dream, it's just a little dream. My dream - and I hope you don't find this too crazy - is that I would like the people of this community to feel that if, God forbid, there were a fire, calling the fire department would actually be a wise thing to do. You can't have people, if their houses are burning down, saying, "Whatever you do, don't call the fire department!" That would be bad.

Steve Martin's character from Roxanne.

 

[theBaron]

Reporter doesn't know his aircraft. B-17's a Flying Fortress, not a Superfortress. Guy probably writes copy for the History Channel, too.

That's near where I lived when I was a student. I recognize the church in some of the pictures, looks like St. Joseph's, the Josefskirche on the aptly-named Josefsplatz. I lived a couple blocks away in the Agnesstrasse.

 

[PanzerAce1944]

Fascinating story, and to think the bomb sat underneath a night club. Like the old asying goes........The place was a Blast !!!

 

[uksubs]

Reporter doesn't know his aircraft. B-17's a Flying Fortress, not a Superfortress. Guy probably writes copy for the History Channel, too.

That's near where I lived when I was a student. I recognize the church in some of the pictures, looks like St. Joseph's, the Josefskirche on the aptly-named Josefsplatz. I lived a couple blocks away in the Agnesstrasse.

Munich it a very lovely city been twice

 

[theBaron]

I just saw a story over at Bavarian Broadcasting's website (Bayerischer Rundfunk) that another bomb was found today, a 500-kilo bomb, buried in Ismaning on the southeastern side of Munich. It was apparently embedded in the ground around two feet below the surface, near the S-Bahn line from the center of town to the airport.

Just as with unexploded munitions buried in Flanders and Northern France, there are probably a lot more of these buried in towns that were bombed, on both sides. It's probably impossible ever to find all of them.

Prost!
Brad

 

[Rob]

I just saw a story over at Bavarian Broadcasting's website (Bayerischer Rundfunk) that another bomb was found today, a 500-kilo bomb, buried in Ismaning on the southeastern side of Munich. It was apparently embedded in the ground around two feet below the surface, near the S-Bahn line from the center of town to the airport.

Just as with unexploded munitions buried in Flanders and Northern France, there are probably a lot more of these buried in towns that were bombed, on both sides. It's probably impossible ever to find all of them.

Prost!
Brad

A survey done some years ago in Flanders and Northern France concluded it would be at least one hundred years before the ground in these areas would be pretty much safe. Staggering to think that almost one hundred years after WW1 ended they still recover around 600 tons of unexploded shells every single year .

Rob