Catching Up On Some Old Articles

From January 2009

1. Four unexploded bombs were found in Osnabrueck, Germany, and about 5,000 evacuated. Believed dropped by British planes. Two defused and two exploded under controlled conditions.


2. Jan. 9, 2009, Tampa Bay Online-- Otho Eugene Hays died Jan. 8th. Served in US Navy 1936-1959. Was eating an apple on the USS Phoenix when he saw a Japanese plane drop a bomb on Ford Island. He called the wheelhouse to report it, but no one believed him.

He was manning a machine gun when the Phoenix, one a only a few ships to get underway that day, passed the burning Arizona.


3. From AFB-- A Japanese worker was injured by World War II bomb in Okinawa while working on an underground water pipe. An estimated 10,000 tons of unexploded ordnance are left on Okinawa.

Watch Out for Those Old Bombs. --GreGen