From the Feb. 14, 2013, Bloomberg Business Week "Hurt Locker Bomb Squads Scour Japan 70 Years After World War II" by Jacob Adelmen and Kiyotaka Maysuda.
Makoto Ohashi, 37, Sgt. 1st Class in Japan's Bomb squad said a prayer before twisting off the fuse from a 500 World War II bomb.
About 6,000 tons of explosives have been recovered in Japan records were first kept starting in 1958.
They will be traveling to Hamamatsu in central Japan to detonate an 860-kilo bomb found by a maintenance crew of the Central Japan Railway Company.
About 160,000 tons of bombs were dropped on Japan during the last five months of the war.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
No comments:
Post a Comment