The day after or week after these were dropped 60-100 years ago, did people not think, there’s a bomb over there we should make it safe.
Edit: I singled out the UK because they discovered a bomb from World War Two today in Plymouth. I know the UK is still in Europe.
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They hit soft gound without leaving an impact crater and didn’t go off because the detonator malfunctioned. Technology was not as andvanced in WW2 compered to today. At least for mass produced bombs, they used easy to fabricate detonators that often malfunctioned when the impact forces were too low.
For example, I live in germany, around an industrial area that was obliterated by the brits in the later stages of ww2.
And since our ground here is very soft, some of the bombs hit the ground without going off and didn’t even leave a impact crater. Like if you drop a spoon in gravy. Now they lay around two to three meters deep, in some cases even deeper with detonators that are deterioraring and are still armed.
After all the rubble was cleared they started to build appartement buildings where the former buildings were leveled in WW2.
When i was a kid, my aunt lived in an area that was rebuild in the late 50s/ early 60s. Now, six or so years ago, they tore down three of the buildings and found one “Blindgänger” in the garden area between the buildings, three meters below the area where the open air clothes dryer and another one a mere meter below the concrete cellar floor of one of the buildings only 60 meters from the other away. If either one had gone off, the other could have followed and leveled that whole block for a second time. Imagine the luck of the guys digging that foundation, if one of them would have hit the bomb with his shovel or picaxe.
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