Ww1 Munitions Found

[T_O_A_D]

Sort of odd to have built all those homes, and only now managing to hit a hot spot.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_dc_munitions_dig

[Tribunus]

I’ve heard that there are areas in France that they can’t even use for farm land. When they plow the fields, they can unearth munitions and even hot spots of Mustard Gas.

We have a similar problem here in Egypt with land mines. In most of the Sinai, it’s not safe to get off the hard top roads because of the mines left over from the various Arab-Israeli wars. Then there is the El Alamein battle field. When I got here, I was really hoping that I would be able to get out and explore the real battle field, not just the museum. But there are still somewhere in the neighborhood of Three Million mines out there. A month doesn’t go by without a story in the news papers about some poor Bedouin getting killed or injured while tending to his flock of goats.

[cannon_fodder]

There are several BIG unexploded WWI mines in france.

These are the ones that teams of miners spent weeks digging a tunnel under the enemy trenches and then they filled with 100's if not a 1000 tons of TNT ready to be detonated at H-hour on the day of attack. If the front lines moved before they were detonated they were filled in and mapped for latter use. Then they lost the map.

There was a Discovery channel documentory about a french farmer who had all his windows blown out after a lighting strike detonated 1 mine. In a field 1000 yards from his house there was a massive crater. The whole field was missing... and the experts who investigated found it was one of group of 3 mines dug and then lost during WWI . If it was mine A that blew up then his house is safe. If however the mine which blew up was mine B then unexploded mine A is nearer to his house. The frenchman seemed very pragmatic that he may be living ontop 100's of tons of TNT