EOD Incidents

[Rockteer]

One for all those ex or current EOD chaps, and might be interesting for the rest of us.

Does anyone have any stories of strange or unusual places where bombs have been found. For example I have read about one that was found still in side an old Gas Container since the war and had to be dealt with in the 80's.

Over to you.

[kz11gr]

Hallo

Personally, i have seen :

In the north of France, workers digged a big hole close near under a Gasoline pump (for reparations) .

1,5 meter deep was a little english bomb (about 15/20 kg) in excellent condition with 90% of the yellow and green paint .
+ and a great part of the tail .


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[Fuzeman]

Becton Gas works a bomb was found this was shown on BBC1 Television 999 programme 26/1/96

There was a case of a 50Kg bomb that skidded through a railway bridge and embedded itself inside a slow moving train eventually ending up in Scotland

In Guernsey in 1945 A German 250 Kg with a type (17) fuze was found whilst lifting an old minefield , this bomb was part of a stick dropped on Guernsey in 1940 just prior to the occupation , unknown to the Germans they laid a minefield over the top of it.

And In St Martins also in Guernsey a British bomb dropped by the Canadian airforce on the Radar station in St peter port was uncovered its nose touching the St Martins gas pipe, this was cleared by the Guernsey Police Bomb squad

[25thapril]

Have just recently seen a pic of a south vietmanese soilder with a live 60mm mortar round embeded in his chest I think this one tops the list of strange and unusual will try to get a copy and post a pic

[Fuzeman]

there was a case in i think yogoslavia with a soldiier who had a live sub munition inside him , that had to be immunised by the bomb squad before the surgeon could operate

[glevum]

Here is a link to the Xray of the live mortar bomb in a guy's chest.

I did not post the image due to copyright issues.

http://ats.ctsnetjournals.org/cgi/co...urcetype=HWFIG

Some of the article is quite interesting.

[hicky1300]

Whilst based in Germany I had to go to an RAF base as whilst repairing/inspecting the perimeter fence the workers found a dozen live 40mm Bofors rounds in the undergrowth. All Dated `50`s & in very good condition. Unfortunately moved them to the end of the runway & blew them up - what a waste.

[Rockteer]

This is great, keep em coming! some very interesting accounts emerging.

[valmara69]

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[gmiller6]

[quote=glevum;73146]Here is a link to the Xray of the live mortar bomb in a guy's chest.

I did not post the image due to copyright issues.

http://ats.ctsnetjournals.org/cgi/content/full/75/5/1366?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&full text=surgeons&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=30&resourcetyp e=HWFIG

Unfortunately the XRay is rather poor, but it shows a fracture of the head of his humerus bone (the part that rotates in the shoulder socket.) There is also a haematoma (collection of blood) in the front of the shoulder blade and the bomb has incredibly penetrated between the ribs which are intact and the soft tissue of the lower chest, perhaps passing behind the pectoralis muscle (the one referred to by body builders as "pecs"). This may have prevented the bomb from ruptured the skin.

The mortar round would have been relatively easy to remove - but his shoulder would have been a mess and he would have required expert orthopaedic surgery ....

I have also seen a WW2 Australian veteran with a German bullet lodged in his upper spine (second cervical vertebrae) about half a centimetre from his spinal cord. It had been there over thirty years but he was reasonably comfortable.

For a WW1 X-Ray view of an (arrowed) bullet in the eyesocket see a WW1 X-Ray that I have online at http://www.vlib.us/medical/xray/xray10.htm

Geoffrey Miller