EOD Incidents

[motorcityman]

A friend of my dad's (a cop) was responding to a domestic abuse call in Detroit back in the early 80's, my dad's friend was a vietnam vet. So he gets to the house and sitting on both sides of an old console TV set were two 155mm projectiles, they ended up being live and bomb disposal was brought in. They had fuses in them and were ready to go so the story goes. :tinysmile_eyebrow_t

 

[satan18]

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.

Quite close to me as i have two friends who lived and worked at the gas holder site were this SC 500 was found,i believe in the late 1980s or early 90s.

It had fallen to the bottom of the holder and broke in two,which was preventing the gas holder from closing right down.

Three RE officers were awarded the Queens medal for working on this bomb as it was in total darkness and in about 8 feet of liquid sludge.

The bomb was restored and put on display next to the Gas museum until it closed.
I was in negotiations to aquire the bomb for preservation and all the Gas officials were on board with the idea for me to have it and keep it local to were it was found.

Unfortunately the bomb had been removed for scrap and has been lost for good,as i was to late.

A good read in After the Battle.

Best phil

 

[headspace]

EOD incidents.

hi guys,i have heard a story about some fishermen who while fishing off the coast of cornwall, hauled a live torpedo to the surface,rather than call E.O.D and lose valuable fishing time and income they decided to return it to the mirky depths,the resulting explosion caused four of the crew on deck to suffer broken legs !.

 

[Antoon]

Quite close to me as i have two friends who lived and worked at the gas holder site were this SC 500 was found,i believe in the late 1980s or early 90s.

It had fallen to the bottom of the holder and broke in two,which was preventing the gas holder from closing right down.

Three RE officers were awarded the Queens medal for working on this bomb as it was in total darkness and in about 8 feet of liquid sludge.

The bomb was restored and put on display next to the Gas museum until it closed.
I was in negotiations to aquire the bomb for preservation and all the Gas officials were on board with the idea for me to have it and keep it local to were it was found.

Unfortunately the bomb had been removed for scrap and has been lost for good,as i was to late.

A good read in After the Battle.

Best phil

What type of fuzes where on this SC 500?

 

[EODONE]

250Kg Loughton Cemetery

During the early 60's we sank a 14' x 8' timber shaft 25'deep through 3 x family graves in Loughton Cemetery, this was a very messy job because the main make up of the ground was London Blue clay(No worms) this when back filled makes the coffins air tight so the contents rot in the box.
When it can to lifting them out the coffin bottoms fellout and the liquid contents flowed out into the shaft making digging very smelly.Good job though removed a 250 Kg , GP and were given 2x free pints of milk a day, had to change before going back to the lodging though.
Note the shaft was called a "Bastard Shaft" due to the fact that it required a Walling at the 7' centre making earth moving great fun.

Happy Sapper , REgards John

 

[hughjones]

I was in Kosovo in 1999. One of our teams was tasked to an item of ordnance on the rail line. It turned out to be a British 500lb WW2 vintage bomb. Apparently it had sat in the gravel of the rail bed since being covered up in the 40s.

Another job I was on, we went to a remote farm to take care of a rocket on the ground nearby. When we were talking with the farm owner, we noticed his chopping block for firewood, He was using an anvil made from a Projectile that was stuck nose down in a large log! - The base of which was covered in cuts from the axe hitting it for the last 50 odd years! The projectile was an HE 88mm German round which was fired and fused ! It was a difficult task getting the old guy to let his anvil go. I think we gave him something similar in return so we could get rid of the shell!

 

[grog18b]

I was called to respond to a garbage container for a report of "grenades" in the container. (Large steel streetside container) When I arrived, looked in and saw two military issue smoke grenades, yellow and violet. I added two smoke grenades to my inventory. Another time got a call about a Mk2 frag grenade found by a guy in his backyard. Female officer arrived first and called EOD. She was Army reserve. I arrived and cancelled EOD. It was a Mk2 practice with a obvious large hole in the bottom. Homeowner had covered it with a plastic 5 gallon bucket... Nothing to see there...