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A 500-pound bomb, believed to have been dropped during World War II, exploded at the Miyazaki Airport in Japan on Wednesday. 500-pound bomb dropped during World War II explodes at Japanese airport ...
A bomb disposal team from the Japan Ground Self-Defense. A regional airport in southwest Japan was closed on Wednesday after a U.S. bombshell, likely dropped during World War Two to stem "kamikaze ...
8 June 2022: After a suspected wartime bomb is found in a lake in Mossley Hill in Liverpool, a planned detonation is successfully carried out. [27] 26 January 2023: A planned detonation of a wartime bomb found on a beach in Essex occurs. [28] 10 February 2023: A World War II bomb exploded in Great Yarmouth during attempts to defuse it. Minor ...
PRAGUE (Reuters) -Czech bomb disposal experts on Friday detonated a World War Two bomb found on the site of an oil refinery, causing no major visible damage to the Polish-owned plant that has ...
The bombing of Dresden was a joint British and American aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, during World War II. In four raids between 13 and 15 February 1945, 772 heavy bombers of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and 527 of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped more than 3,900 tons ...
In 1974, it was announced that the cause of the explosion was probably a site worker removing a detonator from a live bomb using a brass chisel, rather than a wooden batten, resulting in sparks. An eyewitness testified that he had seen a worker using brass chisels, in direct contravention of the regulations in force.
A golf course has been evacuated after a suspected World War Two bomb was brought to the site in a consignment of soil. Stoneham Golf Club near Southampton said the material was delivered by lorry ...
The Bombardment of Ellwood during World War II was a naval attack by a Japanese submarine against United States coastal targets near Santa Barbara, California in February 1942. Though the damage was minimal, the event was key in triggering the West Coast invasion scare and influenced the decision to intern Japanese-Americans .