I mean if the original intention of the bomb was to deny airfield operations, then I’d say the airport having to shut down would count as a mission success, right?
In Germany, they built a whole house including a famous club on top of one. A miracle the vibrations from the music didn't set it off. Eventually, the house was torn down to build something else and they used the opportunity. Another bomb had an HSR track built upon it.
@@ohaussBuilding a house and building a road or two completely different things, building a road you have to use a wirgen with diamond cutting teeth to dig up 3 ft of Earth and then fill it with lime then come in and lay rebar which is steel rods tied together and then the heavy equipment comes in to lay the chat foundation then vibrating it down with steamrollers then laying the tar road and then the paint..
after looking at the picture provided. no plane rolls over that particular spot. yes, it is dangerous. but if anything. it would be loud and paint might be chipped
The U.S. wasn't messing around back then. We had the bravest generation of soldiers, marines, pilots, military personnel, allies, etc... We even helped Russia defeat Hitler and an American General telling the whole world that we were fighting the wrong enemy... a few months later, that general was killed in a strange, minor car accident or should I say... Silenced!
Just imagine; this bomb went off just underneath an Airport Taxiway.... you have to wonder just how many commercial jets have crossed over this bomb all those years before this went off on its own without a plane causing it to go off -- that's crazy. But then to think, where the heck is the next one to go off? Estimating about 2,000 Tons of potential bombs still lay underground and many hidden, that is just a very scary situation.
Farmers in Belgium dig up WWI shells with their tractors. They place them at the side of the road and the army explosives team picks them up. It keeps them busy.
@sd906238 Ngl that’s probably a good thing from an environmental perspective. No one allowed there to muck up the environment, bomb stays un-kaboomed, and no one gets hurt.
@@Hershewed Only problem is a lot of these bombs self detonate from corrosion and the chemicals becoming unstable. Whether it explodes or corrodes the primers and explosives can contain all kinds of nasty elements and chemicals and those will remain eventually unrestrained in the environment. Best if the stuff can be removed and disposed in a controlled environment then left in the nature unrevealed.
While stationed on Okinawa 1975, they warned us that while scuba diving not to go near shells or bombs if found underwater. So , of course, we tried to find them. I never did, darn. Plenty of sea shells but no artillery shells.
in 2005 a diver picked up a phosphor grenade while diving off Tori station. It burned a hole in his BC when we surfaced. Some other divers found an unexploded mine around the same area a while later. EOD guys took care of that one.
When I was stationed at Kadena in ‘99 a buddy and i were walking home from Gate 2 around midnight and starting kicking an old mud encrusted bottle down the road. There had just been heavy rains and flooding so things were rolling out of the jungle into the roads. Next morning we found out EOD had been called to dispose of an old mortar round down the road from the barracks….. Turns out we had been kicking a UXO down the street. I still blame the soju.
They did a barracks remodel at Bamberg while I was stationed there in '07. They pulled down some plaster from an interior wall and found an unexploded 75mm HE round from a Sherman tank. After the war, either the Germans or us just slapped some mortar over the hole on the outside and left that thing in the wall. Can you imagine if some dipstick private had decided to hang up a picture frame in his room and had used an overly long nail? Tap, tap, tap, BOOM! I still can't believe that didn't happen in 63 years.
Well bombers had to take off with it, it likely wasnt primed or something got stuck preventing it from detonating. almost 100 years later some bit rusts off, letting the pin finally drop or something like that.
@mike4402 there is a thing called an "acid detonator", a glass vial filled with acid normally breaks and then rusts a piece of copper, taking between a half and 3 days. These are very unreliable, if the bomb did not hit anything hard, they sometimes did not even break the vial. And they can still detonate, because the fuse is airtight
I read a great book way back in high school called "Aftermath: The Remnants of War" that goes into the history and present state (at least as of 1998 when it was written) of former battlefields and other places subjected to bombardment/contamination. Apparently they made a documentary based on the book too, but I haven't seen it.
When I went to Japan in 04 there were arguments going on between the US Navy and Japan. Aparently the Yokosuka base has a few shall we say leftovers as well. The Navy wanted to extend a Pier for a larger Carrier and started to do the work. Only problem was is as they were digging to extend the foundation they found a bunch of mercury that the Imperial Japanese Navy seems to have buried. The argument ended up being who was going to clean it up and who was gonna have to cough up the money to do so. There is also an anchor outside one of the gates on display that was originally on the bottom near that pier and one of the old carriers used to bounce her rudder off it every time she pulled in. Took em years to figure out what the bump was and then get it out of the water.
That's a funny argument to imagine lol. "You buried it, you clean it up." "Nu-uh, it was the prewar govt. not us, so it doesn't count, plus it's your base now and it was fine until you disturbed it, YOU clean it up." "Yeah but YOU didn't mark it when you buried it, so it's your fault we hit it..." "Nu-uh..."(and so on.)
@@jonnym4670 The rudder wasn't hitting bottom, it was hitting the anchor which was sticking up. The Kittyhawk herself only had a few feet of clearance going in and out of that harbor and when they dredged for the CVN that replaced her not exactly much room was made for her either. That harbor isn't exactly a lot of room for a CV and they have to go in and out in VERY tight lanes. A lot of harbors are like that even for commercial ships some of those only have 2 or 3 meters/yards of clearance off the bottom. Not much of an issue if nothings sticking up and they are going slow. But if a random item is there and no one spots it...
Student pilot here. Its a taxiway but theres a hold short line right there. Which is the part right before the runway. Typically, planes stop there right before given clearance to enter the runway for takeoff. So the fact a detonation happened there could have been bad if a plane had been waiting there.
Fort Mead let us hunt on their old WWII artillery practice range. We had to go through a class instructing us what to do if we found a bomb. I found one. The EOD guy said it was a 155mm and that it could still explode. They took it to an in-ground concrete silo, attached explosives to it and lowered it down. Even from the bunker we felt the blast shake the ground.
@@BringerOfD I don't know what's typical today, but when I found that bomb in 1976 they removed it from the area. This guy wearing padded clothing and a helmet actually picked it up with his hands and cradled it in his arms like a baby. Then he and the other guys got into the window van we arrived in and drove off with it. I rode there with them in that van, but decided to walk back instead of riding back with that bomb. I'm sure things are done differently these days than they were in 1976!
France still has a huge swath of land no one can enter because of all the unexploded munitions from WW ONE. The landscape is poisoned and surreal looking too.
I was stationed on Okinawa in 1968 and '69. They discovered about one unexploded 16" shell every few months back then. As a pilot and Airline Dispatcher, I'm not sure why they canceled flights unless the taxiway led directly from the ramp to the runway. And I'm not sure why they even mentioned Okinawa since it's 450 miles SW of the Mainland.
Delayed action fuse, plenty of these were dropped over Germany & still explode occasionally. The fuse used acetone to melt through celluloid discs the number of which gave the delay. But if the bomb went into the ground & ended up pointing upwards perhaps if the fins came off, the fuse didnt operate correctly & might only part dissolve the discs, leaving it in a highly dangerous state.
When we pulled a building permit in Horry County SC, they handed us a sheet of paper warning of unexploded ordinance. A large part of the county used to be a bombing range. Every few years, someone finds one.
the training are we use at Camp Bullis TX. was once an WW1 artillery range . I have seen hundreds of 75mm shells laying on the ground among the tumble weeds.
If you drive around Guam, you might see a sign that says something like: "Danger. UXO ahead" (UXO : UneXploded Ordnance) UXO could be found in Europe, Africa, Asia-Pacific... any place that was bombed or shelled or mined.
B-17s and B-24s were not used in large formation bombing of the Japanese home islands. Else where? You bet. That stock footage was from missions in Europe.
@@ffjsb That's why northern France near the Belgium border is undeveloped to this day. WWI trenches are still there with explosives, poison gas shells, etc.
Can’t be just that one, they still find bombs that didn’t go off in the UK when roadworks or building goes on. People literally living on time bombs in some places.
Such happens quite often in many WWII locations during excavations for roadwork, building renovation/demolition, even digging in gardens, etc., especially in/around Japan and the UK.
Gravity slowly separates the inert stabilizing gel from the liquid explosive because of density differences, and puddles of explosive chemicals without the stabilizer added go boom from just someone farting on it.
Well the fuse failed on the initial drop but functioned 79 years later. That's some pretty amazing bomb technology. I bet they don't build them like that anymore.
I lived in Japan for 6 years, age 8 through 14. It was a regular occurrence in the spring time to have bombs from WWII uncovered just like rocks in a farmers field. Remember them finding a huge one on our school playground. Three days off school was what I remember most.
Scary. Here in Germany there's still thousands if not millions of unexploded WW2 bombs in the ground, mostly in the cities in densly populated areas from the bombings of those cities by the allies.
So that thing blew up on its own?! I heard about this, but assumed it was discovered unexploded, and was detonated by a bomb disposal unit. Wow, that could have been a tragedy. A 500lb bomb was a relatively small bomb - bombers would have typically carried much bigger, heavier bombs. This 500lb bomb was likely dropped by a carrier-based aircraft.
It's crazier to think that construction workers compacted that area down with machinery and laid cement down on top of a 500lb bomb without it going off till now.
I walked on top of a WW2 era small mortar while at futenma airbase on Okinawa Japan in 1988. I was walking from the flight line up a small hill to the jet engine test cell. Right after a sun shower and while crossing a field I stepped on something hard and looked down and seen some metal barely showing. Called eod and they took care of it.
Several years ago I saw a show about a bomb disposal team in Belgium, I belive, who's full time job was removing unexploded ordinance from WWII. 70 years later. There was so much of it found at construction sites that these guys worked full time on it.
near Messines there are still several mines left from that campain in WWI... ranging from 20.000 lbs upwards... only one of these got detonated by now (in 1955 by lightningstrike)
Dang dudded-out ordinance. That's wild about one exploding in Japan, ironically at an airport right under the airstrip. Usually I would hear about that kind of ordinance turning-up in urban europe
I live in Germany. They find WW2 ordnance all the time over here. My nephew and a friend were out in the woods with a metal detector. And found a cash of live Handgrenades!!! A few years ago they were working on a stretch of Autobahn. And a bulldozer hit a 500lb bomb. Killing the operator and halting further work . Until they could throughly clear the area . Which took some time to do.
I mean if the original intention of the bomb was to deny airfield operations, then I’d say the airport having to shut down would count as a mission success, right?
@sd906238 holy crap your right lmao
1944: "Was the mission a success?"
Also 1944: "Soon, baby, soon."
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Yea I think it was a little bit late yknow
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Someone's combat flight record just got an update 80 years on.
The warranty had just ended!
🤣😂😉
Hell, the “warranty” held out for 👉🏻80 Years
....should have responded to all the warranty extension mail offerings ........
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It’s more amazing that they was able to build a runway on top of a bomb and use it for years before it exploded
In Germany, they built a whole house including a famous club on top of one. A miracle the vibrations from the music didn't set it off. Eventually, the house was torn down to build something else and they used the opportunity.
Another bomb had an HSR track built upon it.
@@ohauss 🤯 now that’s crazy.
It seems like they knew it was there lol
@@ohaussBuilding a house and building a road or two completely different things, building a road you have to use a wirgen with diamond cutting teeth to dig up 3 ft of Earth and then fill it with lime then come in and lay rebar which is steel rods tied together and then the heavy equipment comes in to lay the chat foundation then vibrating it down with steamrollers then laying the tar road and then the paint..
ohhhh-kayyyy. U 'win'! ; )
Now that's a delayed fuse!
Very sneaky..
Ah yes, a blast from the past!
Literally
Insert badumtss comment here
Literally
Funny how that's exactly where the term came from.
“Ah, that’s where we lost the third Atomic Bomb!”
My grandpa just now: THATS where i left it.
👀
Your Grandpa is over 100 years old if that's where he left it! 😂😅😂
@@tazslh1 Not if he was 17-20 when he misplaced it.
The bomb was there before 1943 when the airport was built. That's 82 years ago.
He had to be 18 to be there.
82+18=100!
@@SlevinCCX My father was 21 when he left it there.
imagine missing out on 500lb ww2 bomb and it suddenly goes off underground all paved for no one to claim it as, my bomb.
Under a taxiway?! They are so lucky that wasn't triggered by an aircraft rolling over it.
Uhhh DUH!! Thanks,Professor!
after looking at the picture provided. no plane rolls over that particular spot. yes, it is dangerous. but if anything. it would be loud and paint might be chipped
@@thefogg however it would send shrapnel hurtling through the air at whatever is above or nearby
Ever heard of earthquakes in relation to Japan? An aircraft rolling over this site is nothing compared to that.
Bro has a ping of 79 freaking years
80 years (The above edited their post from 70 to 79)
LMAO top comment right here
The U.S. wasn't messing around back then. We had the bravest generation of soldiers, marines, pilots, military personnel, allies, etc... We even helped Russia defeat Hitler and an American General telling the whole world that we were fighting the wrong enemy... a few months later, that general was killed in a strange, minor car accident or should I say... Silenced!
bro got the 2,492,999,208,000ms latency
unfortantley bro was gaming from 79 light years away and forgot he planted the bomb in japan 💀
Just imagine; this bomb went off just underneath an Airport Taxiway.... you have to wonder just how many commercial jets have crossed over this bomb all those years before this went off on its own without a plane causing it to go off -- that's crazy. But then to think, where the heck is the next one to go off? Estimating about 2,000 Tons of potential bombs still lay underground and many hidden, that is just a very scary situation.
They still find stuff there when they're digging for skyscrapers and tunnels too.
That 2000 ton estimate was just for Okinawa. The mainland is bound to have many time that number.
Especially western Honshu, where most of the bombing took place.
None. It was in the overrun area…
Non it was a military training field it said.
Some ants underground were nibbling at it, probably.
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Live artillery shells from World War *One* are still regularly found in France. Bombs keep turning up in the UK and Germany, etc.
Farmers in Belgium dig up WWI shells with their tractors. They place them at the side of the road and the army explosives team picks them up. It keeps them busy.
Some areas in France are still off because of all of the unexploded artillery shells from WWI.
@sd906238 Ngl that’s probably a good thing from an environmental perspective. No one allowed there to muck up the environment, bomb stays un-kaboomed, and no one gets hurt.
@@Hershewed Only problem is a lot of these bombs self detonate from corrosion and the chemicals becoming unstable. Whether it explodes or corrodes the primers and explosives can contain all kinds of nasty elements and chemicals and those will remain eventually unrestrained in the environment. Best if the stuff can be removed and disposed in a controlled environment then left in the nature unrevealed.
@@mikecrooks8085 I'd be really nervous about living in Dresden.
While stationed on Okinawa 1975, they warned us that while scuba diving not to go near shells or bombs if found underwater. So , of course, we tried to find them. I never did, darn. Plenty of sea shells but no artillery shells.
in 2005 a diver picked up a phosphor grenade while diving off Tori station. It burned a hole in his BC when we surfaced. Some other divers found an unexploded mine around the same area a while later. EOD guys took care of that one.
If it goes off under water its has 3 time more range because water doesn't compress!
@@1crustyoldmsgtretired870 That wasn't too smart of him.
When I was stationed at Kadena in ‘99 a buddy and i were walking home from Gate 2 around midnight and starting kicking an old mud encrusted bottle down the road. There had just been heavy rains and flooding so things were rolling out of the jungle into the roads. Next morning we found out EOD had been called to dispose of an old mortar round down the road from the barracks….. Turns out we had been kicking a UXO down the street. I still blame the soju.
They did a barracks remodel at Bamberg while I was stationed there in '07. They pulled down some plaster from an interior wall and found an unexploded 75mm HE round from a Sherman tank. After the war, either the Germans or us just slapped some mortar over the hole on the outside and left that thing in the wall. Can you imagine if some dipstick private had decided to hang up a picture frame in his room and had used an overly long nail? Tap, tap, tap, BOOM! I still can't believe that didn't happen in 63 years.
Strange the steamroller didn't set it off when they built the runway, they shake the ground about 8 feet down
I assume decomposition following being damaged by construction when built?
@@evonne315 WOWOWOWOWOWWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOOWOWWOWOWOWW hopefully not but WOWOWOWOWOWOW
Well bombers had to take off with it, it likely wasnt primed or something got stuck preventing it from detonating. almost 100 years later some bit rusts off, letting the pin finally drop or something like that.
@mike4402 there is a thing called an "acid detonator", a glass vial filled with acid normally breaks and then rusts a piece of copper, taking between a half and 3 days. These are very unreliable, if the bomb did not hit anything hard, they sometimes did not even break the vial. And they can still detonate, because the fuse is airtight
It is a BS narrative.
Sarge, Set the timer for 80min, Me Roger that, sets timer for 80years. 🤦🏻♂️
More like 80 milliseconds
In Europe, they are still excavating viable WWI munitions each and every year. Tons and tons of the stuff. Over 100 years later!
Had a 500 pound bomb removed 700 meters from my house, this week! But I never heard about those going off without any outside thing to trigger them
France has no go zones full of trench traps from then.
@@tardvandecluntproductions1278 they think they rust up after so long, but that's too much trust for me. If the firing pin isn't removed...
I read a great book way back in high school called "Aftermath: The Remnants of War" that goes into the history and present state (at least as of 1998 when it was written) of former battlefields and other places subjected to bombardment/contamination. Apparently they made a documentary based on the book too, but I haven't seen it.
Pilot to bombardier, 1943, "Set the fuses for 80 years...."
Bombardier, "Bombs away!"
Pilot, "Wait!! I meant SECONDS, not YEARS!!!".
It's surprising the fuse has a setting for 80 years. Must be a very long fuse.
When I went to Japan in 04 there were arguments going on between the US Navy and Japan. Aparently the Yokosuka base has a few shall we say leftovers as well. The Navy wanted to extend a Pier for a larger Carrier and started to do the work. Only problem was is as they were digging to extend the foundation they found a bunch of mercury that the Imperial Japanese Navy seems to have buried. The argument ended up being who was going to clean it up and who was gonna have to cough up the money to do so. There is also an anchor outside one of the gates on display that was originally on the bottom near that pier and one of the old carriers used to bounce her rudder off it every time she pulled in. Took em years to figure out what the bump was and then get it out of the water.
I was home ported in Yokosuka. It's a crazy place.
That's a funny argument to imagine lol. "You buried it, you clean it up." "Nu-uh, it was the prewar govt. not us, so it doesn't count, plus it's your base now and it was fine until you disturbed it, YOU clean it up." "Yeah but YOU didn't mark it when you buried it, so it's your fault we hit it..." "Nu-uh..."(and so on.)
if the rudder was hitting the bottom it wasn't deep enough to be docking there in the first place
@@jonnym4670 The rudder wasn't hitting bottom, it was hitting the anchor which was sticking up. The Kittyhawk herself only had a few feet of clearance going in and out of that harbor and when they dredged for the CVN that replaced her not exactly much room was made for her either. That harbor isn't exactly a lot of room for a CV and they have to go in and out in VERY tight lanes. A lot of harbors are like that even for commercial ships some of those only have 2 or 3 meters/yards of clearance off the bottom. Not much of an issue if nothings sticking up and they are going slow. But if a random item is there and no one spots it...
Amazing that after about 80 years that it would still detonate. 🤯
Yeah I wonder what caused it. Parts failure do to corrosion, barometric pressure change, siesmic activity,...?
There's parts of France where they're still removing UXO from WW1.
It was back when Americans worked hard and with pride to make a product.
There are still unexploded German bombs from WWII still being discovered in the UK.
@@mac11380 It took 80 years so this one must have been made on a Monday morning or Friday afternoon.
I used to be stationed in Naha. They would find stuff like that all the time. Scary knowing onw could go off at any time.
Imagine paving over a bomb.
think about the worse case scenario: LIVING above the bomb. Mini earthquake basically
They built quality stuff back then. Nothing made today would last 80 years and still function.
0:16 most sources say it's a runway but it's actually a taxiway
Most journalists wouldn't know the difference.
you can tell by the lines in the photo that it is on a taxiway just short of the runway. so they got it right
Student pilot here. Its a taxiway but theres a hold short line right there. Which is the part right before the runway. Typically, planes stop there right before given clearance to enter the runway for takeoff. So the fact a detonation happened there could have been bad if a plane had been waiting there.
Fort Mead let us hunt on their old WWII artillery practice range. We had to go through a class instructing us what to do if we found a bomb. I found one. The EOD guy said it was a 155mm and that it could still explode. They took it to an in-ground concrete silo, attached explosives to it and lowered it down. Even from the bunker we felt the blast shake the ground.
took? I thought the SOPs were typically detonate in place?
@@BringerOfD I don't know what's typical today, but when I found that bomb in 1976 they removed it from the area. This guy wearing padded clothing and a helmet actually picked it up with his hands and cradled it in his arms like a baby. Then he and the other guys got into the window van we arrived in and drove off with it. I rode there with them in that van, but decided to walk back instead of riding back with that bomb. I'm sure things are done differently these days than they were in 1976!
The 1940s. When we built things to last! Seriously, there are sections of France that are totally off limits due to UXO from WWl.
Northern France near Belgium border.
UneXploded Ordinance for those that can't acronym.
It's hard to think that construction equipment is probably driven over that thing a million times and it hasn't went off
A scary reminder of the past. Glad no one was added to the list from 80 years ago.
Interesting 🤔 that would count as a WW2 casualty
France still has a huge swath of land no one can enter because of all the unexploded munitions from WW ONE. The landscape is poisoned and surreal looking too.
It is crazy that ww1 left no-go areas like that, but as far as I know, ww2 did not. Ww3 might.
@@floydlawsen WW3 will undoubtedly be nuclear, so...
@@Xezlec so the areas that get fallout from ground strikes will be toxic for a long time. Other areas might have survivors.
I was stationed on Okinawa in 1968 and '69. They discovered about one unexploded 16" shell every few months back then. As a pilot and Airline Dispatcher, I'm not sure why they canceled flights unless the taxiway led directly from the ramp to the runway. And I'm not sure why they even mentioned Okinawa since it's 450 miles SW of the Mainland.
They did shut down the world because the sniffles
To be honest in all likelihood the bomb explosives finally went completely unstable resulting in the explosion
Losers open with "to be honest".
And to be dishonest?
I’m just glad we’re being honest about this…
I appreciate the honesty, buddy
When were you not being honest? Were you planning to be dishonest?
Delayed action fuse, plenty of these were dropped over Germany & still explode occasionally. The fuse used acetone to melt through celluloid discs the number of which gave the delay. But if the bomb went into the ground & ended up pointing upwards perhaps if the fins came off, the fuse didnt operate correctly & might only part dissolve the discs, leaving it in a highly dangerous state.
Reporter is Chris Pratt’s great value brand cousin amirite?
When we pulled a building permit in Horry County SC, they handed us a sheet of paper warning of unexploded ordinance. A large part of the county used to be a bombing range. Every few years, someone finds one.
the training are we use at Camp Bullis TX. was once an WW1 artillery range . I have seen hundreds of 75mm shells laying on the ground among the tumble weeds.
This kind of thing is no joke. Large areas of France are uninhabitable to this day due to unexploded WWI ordinance and related issues.
In Virginia we still are finding Civil War shells, not to long ago a man was killed from an artillery shell he found in the Petersburg area
That has to be one of the most frightening jobs ever.
And that is why you don't fight a war on home turf!!
They didn't really mean to, but by that time they didn't have much say in the matter.
@@ald1144 They had a say. The IJN and leadership were fanatical though.
If you drive around Guam, you might see a sign that says something like: "Danger. UXO ahead"
(UXO : UneXploded Ordnance)
UXO could be found in Europe, Africa, Asia-Pacific... any place that was bombed or shelled or mined.
The only place where you won’t find UXO would be Antarctica.
Everywhere else has been fought over in the last century…
It did not fully explode. You can see the yellow powder across the ground.
I was about to ask if that's TNT.
B-17s and B-24s were not used in large formation bombing of the Japanese home islands. Else where? You bet. That stock footage was from missions in Europe.
This used to be an issue in Europe. This is the first time I've even heard of it in Japan. But yea it makes sense.
It STILL is an issue, even from stuff from WWI. There's still places that are off limits due to chemical weapons.
Germany alone finds 2,000 TONS of bombs each year.
'Used' to be?! ... Think again.
@@ffjsb That's why northern France near the Belgium border is undeveloped to this day. WWI trenches are still there with explosives, poison gas shells, etc.
@@dfirth224 Exactly.
100% American made
Can’t be just that one, they still find bombs that didn’t go off in the UK when roadworks or building goes on. People literally living on time bombs in some places.
The folks there were probably like
"BUT WE DIDN'T TOUCH THE BOATS"
🤣
HLC gang here
Holy shit! Talk about a blast from the past! 🤯
Granddad just smiled.
Such happens quite often in many WWII locations during excavations for roadwork, building renovation/demolition, even digging in gardens, etc., especially in/around Japan and the UK.
Makes you realise just how dangerous the SS Richard Montgomery is in the Thames with 1.400 tonnes on board still.
Never forget pearl harbor
The time-delay on that bomb is crazy!
80 sec ≠ 80 yrs
Same in Germany. About 1300 tons of unexploded ordnance are found, some 5000 pieces - each year.
If that crater is 23 feet that taxiway must be massive!
Meanwhile somewhere in Arlington folks heard multiple *THUNK* *THINK* sounds from below ground level as the WWII Warriors heard the news.
The ghost of General Curtis LeMay smiled.
On a serious note thankfully no one was hurt in the blast.
F’ed around and are still finding out…
Thousands of these types of bombs are all over Japan, Germany, London, Vietnam, Cambodia & anywhere bombs were ever drooped.
pointing out the obvious i see Lol
@@chrisvibz4753 We know you can't see
@@juancatfish1 True
Could have been a underground, electric cable nearby, that finally induced a stray voltage.
That's what I think, or a lightning strike nearby, maybe?
Why did it go off? Because 80 year old ordenance is unstable.
Gravity slowly separates the inert stabilizing gel from the liquid explosive because of density differences, and puddles of explosive chemicals without the stabilizer added go boom from just someone farting on it.
Probably just rusted
Well the fuse failed on the initial drop but functioned 79 years later. That's some pretty amazing bomb technology. I bet they don't build them like that anymore.
I lived in Japan for 6 years, age 8 through 14. It was a regular occurrence in the spring time to have bombs from WWII uncovered just like rocks in a farmers field. Remember them finding a huge one on our school playground. Three days off school was what I remember most.
The construction worker who paved over the bomb watching this on the news 😳
Them WWII booms still putting in work against airfields.
Scary. Here in Germany there's still thousands if not millions of unexploded WW2 bombs in the ground, mostly in the cities in densly populated areas from the bombings of those cities by the allies.
From what I've read, there are still WWI bombs in Europe, too 😅 careful with those rainy days and lightning strikes.
80 year old direct hit.
Grandpa seeing the kill message 😏
So that thing blew up on its own?! I heard about this, but assumed it was discovered unexploded, and was detonated by a bomb disposal unit. Wow, that could have been a tragedy. A 500lb bomb was a relatively small bomb - bombers would have typically carried much bigger, heavier bombs. This 500lb bomb was likely dropped by a carrier-based aircraft.
Well... since Japan is on the same side now, this has become a delayed friendly fire incident 😎
That bomb had a very long timer-fuse.... and the timer finally ran out
That still counts as a hit!
I think you mean finally counts
Very impressive of the Japanese to schedule a controlled detonation for bomb disposal within a 1 minute time frame between planes on an active taxiway
It's crazier to think that construction workers compacted that area down with machinery and laid cement down on top of a 500lb bomb without it going off till now.
Dont touch my boats! xD
With bombs from wars appearing all over the world, one can only imagine the number of hidden bombs left from the upcoming WW3
Somebody dialed the wrong pager number...
People still paying for the actions of their grandparents.
Holy crap. That’s reassuring
When you earn a ribbon 80 years later.
Some Grandpa just got 5 xp
Wow, they paved a taxiway over it with all the grading and ground compaction, but it didn't go off until now?!
i bet corrosion triggered the bomb
@@JuriKim-b4u That makes sense
dont forget earthquakes and whatever else agitated it
How could a bomb blast be anything other than sudden?
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Someones Grandfather on here is in his grave having a giggle And the words "its about time!"
I walked on top of a WW2 era small mortar while at futenma airbase on Okinawa Japan in 1988. I was walking from the flight line up a small hill to the jet engine test cell. Right after a sun shower and while crossing a field I stepped on something hard and looked down and seen some metal barely showing. Called eod and they took care of it.
I didn't know that such an old bomb would still have the capacity to detonate.
I bet you, that gave the Japanese some messed up flash backs.
Uhhhmm, roice?
A few hours ago they also found a bomb in germany from ww2
Several years ago I saw a show about a bomb disposal team in Belgium, I belive, who's full time job was removing unexploded ordinance from WWII. 70 years later. There was so much of it found at construction sites that these guys worked full time on it.
near Messines there are still several mines left from that campain in WWI... ranging from 20.000 lbs upwards... only one of these got detonated by now (in 1955 by lightningstrike)
Bomb said "hol up lemme cook just a little longer"
My guess is that the bomb became extremely unstable over that much time and was probably detonated by seismic activity
The very meaning of "explosion" is that it happens suddenly, LOL.
After all those years those bombs are still going off! Crazy!
Glad no one hurt but damn that delay was supposed to be 4 seconds not 4 decades
The remnants of WWII will remain forever. Europe is like a huge museum.
Thanks, Miyazaki
The bombardier set the delay to 80 years instead of 80 seconds.
Dang dudded-out ordinance. That's wild about one exploding in Japan, ironically at an airport right under the airstrip. Usually I would hear about that kind of ordinance turning-up in urban europe
I live in Germany. They find WW2 ordnance all the time over here. My nephew and a friend were out in the woods with a metal detector. And found a cash of live Handgrenades!!! A few years ago they were working on a stretch of Autobahn. And a bulldozer hit a 500lb bomb. Killing the operator and halting further work . Until they could throughly clear the area . Which took some time to do.
Huh, you just earned yourself a sub.