We Have An Unexploded Bomb Here

[pastafreak]

Found on Tuesday in a back garden...so far over 3,000 have been evacuated. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-68372939

[retrocop]

Exactly pasta

[Peter Pedant]

 Local news even identified via museum or something called the Box,

plymouth was bombed flatter than any other  city in the UK.

The bombing run was over the ( now really flat centre) and over the hill at Devonport on which Devonport Hospital perched. 

The guns ( Ack ack guns) bamma lamma lamma  uh-uh-uh nee-yowm uh-uh-uh were waiting for the hun bombers

himmel, englander pig-dog !

give it them up the arriss, the huns dont like it that way ! - thx to Dad's Army - referring to shooting the tail gunner

Keyham was the workers accommodation for Devonport dockyard

and so they dumped their bomb loads on the centre of Plymouth turned round and reported back to their Nazi masters that Devonport was no more

flatter the centre was, even thag Gaza

and this ploy worked because there was no reconnaissance over plymouth after 1943....

Kinda thing you learnt if you worked there 50 y ago ( devonport hosp actually)

 

 

[pastafreak]

The bomb is only just on the move. How long to get to the transport from the bridge I don't know. It's a distance of anoug 2 miles. Then about another 2 miles out to sea. Slowly...Slowly 

Peter...I read that they've narrowed it down to a date in...iirc...April 1941.

[Peter Pedant]

exeter uni bomb rather obviously war damage ( excluded in most insurances)

BUT

the burning of the Burma oil fields to prevent them falling into Japanese hands was NOT an act of war ( decided 1964) which led to corrective legislation in a hurry by the wilson govt. Retrospectively which led to howls of protest - which we are facing in 2024 over the Post Office

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmah_Oil_Co_Ltd_v_Lord_Advocate

well this posr is better than some posts you read - foo-foo dang dang etc

[pastafreak]

Oh...and the target was Portland Place...where the university is now. Ex had office there.

[Peter Pedant]

Peter...I read that they've narrowed it down to a date in...iirc...April 1941

thx everyone thinks Britian was bombed to hell during the whole war, BUT after the blitz there wasnt an awful lot until 1944 V1 and then after D Day V2

doyou know there  is a site where you can look up every bomb ( site ) dropped on London

as for the Blitz - peanuts - More than the whole bombload for england was dropped on Tokyo 1945 - Probably May 45 when 20 sq mi was obliterated

organised by army air force general (!) Curtis LeMay

Bombs away with Curtis E Lemay ! ran as vice president along with George Wallace of Alabamy

[sandyRoe]

Was it Lemay or Goldwater who proposed a plan to engineer a canal in California using nuclear bombs to do the earth moving?

[Hopkirk]

More mad Americans then

[ladybirder]

PP I lived in Coventry when this happened ... 

I remember sitting on my father's shoulders as he carried me to the local air raid shelter as the warnings were blaring out.  When we eventually got back home again my bedroom had been hit and our Lilac tree in the back garden had been blown onto the roof of a house a few roads away.

https://www.historiccoventry.co.uk/blitz/blitz.php?pg=stats

[Peter Pedant]

R V  Jones Secret War (Book 1970, tv 1971) has a bit about Coventry - code name Umbrella as the Chamberlains ( at least 3) were big there

and whether Churchill let it be bombed in order to preserve Enigma - a/c to my father, the AA guns were incredibly inefficient ( hit rate much less than 1%) - unlike later, with proximity fuses, and anti aircraft radar - by 1944, if you were caught in a search light ( the other search light wd lock on, and triangulation was done by (log) books by hand) the chances were 67% of success ( hitting the aircraft).

Most intense was of course over Hanoi in the Viet War.

RV Jones worked out a way of bending the X gerat beams ( but not over coventry)

 

[Peter Pedant]

I was looking soulfully out of Charles Lander ward Devonport 1976 at further up the hill and a porter said " that is where the AA guns were sited to shoot down the German aircraft. Of course they didnt come anywhere near, but unloaded on the centre and hared back to germany"