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The first clearance of material occurred during late 1959 and early 1960 and the second in January 1965. A large amount of unexploded bombs and wreckage were found. An inspection in 1970 found only detonated or non-explosive ordnance, but it took place in only one day. Additional unexploded ordnance has been found on a regular basis since then.
At least eight were found in the 1940s, three in the 1950s, two in the 1960s, and one in the 1970s. [58] A carriage with a live bomb was found near Lumby, British Columbia, in 2014 and detonated by a Royal Canadian Navy ordnance disposal team. [59] Remains of another balloon were found near McBride, British Columbia, in 2019. [60]
During World War II, it was designed to divert Allied airstrikes from the actual production site of the arms factory. Operation Hydra of August 1943 sought to destroy German work on long-range rockets but only delayed it by a few months.
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The bomber stream was a saturation attack tactic developed by the Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber Command to overwhelm the nighttime German aerial defences of the Kammhuber Line during World War II. The Kammhuber Line consisted of three layers of zones of about 32 km (17 nmi) long (north–south) and 20 km (11 nmi) wide (east–west).
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The B-52 carried two 3.8-megaton, sealed pit thermonuclear Mark 39 Mod 2 bombs arranged in tandem in its bomb bay. Both weapons were thrown from the aircraft on impact and "severely damaged." [3] The weapon from the rear bomb rack was found still mostly intact, with its nuclear components inside of its ballistic drop case.