View Full Version : WWII leftovers explode in the Pacific
mojaveman
08-11-2014, 08:34
Thought this was kind of interesting. Didn't know that WWII munitions only had a 70% success rate.
http://news.yahoo.com/clearing-wwiis-explosive-legacy-pacific-044209150.html
Thought this was kind of interesting. Didn't know that WWII munitions only had a 70% success rate.
http://news.yahoo.com/clearing-wwiis-explosive-legacy-pacific-044209150.html
The Solomon Islands is absolutely rotten with leftover munitions.
Having a wander through the Bloody Ridge area not far from Henderson Field/Honiaria Airport just East of the capital and fighting positions and wire obstacles still remain, albeit well overgrown and washed out. Link and loose rounds are like cockroaches, everywhere.
Local EOD is pretty cruisey, even though they still run into the odd Japanese gas mortar bombs.
Fish bombs used by locals(and destroying local reefs) typically acquire their content by drilling out UXO.
The Reaper
08-11-2014, 17:51
Different munitions have different dud rates.
And some are safer to deal with than others.
Hell, last I heard, there were still casualties in the US every year from Civil War UXO.
France was eaten up with it, along with Germany.
Find them, and move them to a safe place, or blow in place.
I was stopped on Plank Road near the western end of post one day while EOD blew an 8" artillery round someone found in a ditch along the road, exposed by recent rains.
TR
Hell, last I heard, there were still casualties in the US every year from Civil War UXO.
TR
Wow.....I had no idea.