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3toes
They still turn up here too.
One in London a while ago and they wanted to evacuate surrounding buildings before attempting to remove bomb. Problem that lot of people in that part of London are not supposed to be in the country and would not co operate as they thought it was a trick to ID them. This was UK there was no war here
Or more amusing was the expansion of a cemetery which was delayed as the ground survey found 4 unexplored bombs in the area they were looking to use
A friend was digging in the garden at home and went a bit deeper than normal and struck something metal. Plenty of excitement when realised what it was
These stories are still frequent enough that do not make the headlines
Interesting story about the men who had the job of dealing with UXB's during the War. Especially the Naval men who had to find a way of making safe Hitler's magnetic mines. Lt.Cmdr John Ouvry, RN, Lt.Cmdr Roger Lewis, RN , CPO Charles Baldwin , RN, AB Archibald Vearncombe , RN, the men who dismantled two magnetic mines that had been dropped too close to shore and were exposed at low tide, were awarded the decorations, DSO for the Officers, DSM for the other ranks. These were the first RN decorations of the War. Many thought Ouvry should have been awarded the VC, so much so that the King gazetted a new medal , the George Cross, for extreme bravery not under fire, equal to the Victoria Cross as the highest mark of valour , but open to any one, citizen or serviceman. The George Medal was also established, falling directly below the GC in order of merit. During WW2, around 120 GC's were awarded but only 8 individuals were awarded both the King's Cross and Medal. Three Australians , naval volunteers John Stuart Mould, Hugh Randall Syme, Leon Verdi Goldsworthy, were part of the 8, while a fourth, George Rose , was awarded the GC.
These four Australians were the forefathers of today's Australian clearance divers. They learned on the job to become cutting edge divers and masters of mine disposal pioneering the core skills of their modern - day kin. But that's a different story.
I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food
A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking
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