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Homes evacuated in from suspected WW2 bomb site in Newtownards

Police say more than 400 homes have been evacuated in Newtownards, County Down, following the discovery of a suspected World War Two bomb.

World War II - Bombs Fall on Oregon: Japanese Attacks on the State

Attacks did occur, including the shelling of Fort Stevens, two aerial bomb runs near Brookings, and balloon bombs such as the one that killed 6 near Bly.

Balloon Bombs: Japan's Answer to Doolittle

One of the best kept secrets of the war involved the Japanese balloon bomb offensive. Prompted by the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo in April 1942, the Japanese ...

Impact of bombs from World War II felt at the edge of space

University of Reading researchers found that bombing raids not only caused damage on the ground but also shook the Earth's atmosphere up to the edge of ...

Unexploded WWII Bombs Have Grown More Dangerous Over Time

Long-buried bombs leftover from World War I and World War II have become more volatile, a new study finds, raising the odds that a dormant explosive detonates.

Bomb dropped by U.S. in World War II explodes at airport in Japan ...

An unexploded US bomb from World War II that had been buried at a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday, causing a large crater in a taxiway and the cancellation ...

World War II bomb disposal in Europe - Wikipedia

The Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces dropped 2.7 million tonnes of bombs on Europe during World War II. In the United Kingdom, ...

80 years on, French lake still polluted by World War II bombs

A French environmental group has found artillery shells dating back to World Wars I and II and even the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 in a lake in eastern France.

Bomb Census survey 1940-1945 - The National Archives

This guide will help you to find records at The National Archives of air raids during the Second World War.

The Terrifying German 'Revenge Weapons' Of The Second World War

World War 2 Weapons: The V1 flying bombs were winged bombs powered by a jet engine. Launched from a ramp, later from adapted bomber aircraft.

Unexploded bombs from the second world war are getting more ...

An explosive found inside many bombs and shells used during the first and second world wars is becoming more likely to explode in response ...

Beware the Bomb: Oregonians Discover New Ways to Die

Photo of a thermite bomb in mid explosion shows smoke, sparks and flame. Thermite bombs burned with incredible heat and intensity as this demonstration shows. ( ...

Bomb Squads Safely Handle Decades-Old Military Explosives - FBI

FBI bomb squads have disabled explosive material from as early as the Civil War; the Army Corps of Engineers found cannonballs from that era at ...

Unexploded WWII bomb discovered in central Nagoya

NAGOYA--A constructor worker made the unsettling discovery of an unexploded bomb from World War II on Oct. 17 at a building demolition site ...

WW2 bomb upheaval upsetting for daughter, mum says - BBC

A woman whose daughter has severe autism and uses a wheelchair says the upheaval at a housing estate where a suspected World War Two bomb was found is very ...

Determining high-risk zones for unexploded World War II bombs by ...

Even 65 years after the end of the Second World War, unexploded bombs still represent a seri ous problem in Germany. Often accidentally found during ...

How hidden WW2 bombs across the Pacific are found and ...

Teams in the Marshall Islands, which is littered with unexploded weapons from the second world war, uncover and detonate potentially deadly ...

A World War II bomb prompted an evacuation in England before ...

An unexploded World War II bomb was safely transported Friday through the eerily empty streets of the southwestern English port city of Plymouth before being ...

Japan to search airports for more unexploded WWII bombs

Japan has ordered a thorough search for munitions that may still be buried beneath two airports in the south of the country after an unexploded bomb was found.

There Are Still Thousands of Tons of Unexploded Bombs in ...

In 2011, 45,000 people—the largest evacuation in Germany since World War II—were forced to leave their homes when a drought revealed a similar device lying on ...