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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People have a hard time understanding the sheer scale of WW1 and WW2
In WW2 Allied air forces dropped nearly 2.7 million tons of bombs, flew 1,440,000 bomber sorties and 2,680,000 fighter sorties.
79,265 Americans and 79,281 British airmen were lost. More than 18,000 American and 22,000 British planes were lost or damaged beyond repair.
Approximately 20 percent of the total number of buildings in Germany were destroyed or heavily damaged.
There was so many bombs dropped that a large number that failed to detonate are still buried underground all over Europe.
That’s also just bombs, there’s also other explosive devices like artillery shells and mines.
There’s several places in France that are permanently off limits to civilians because the concentration of unexploded ordnance leftover from WW1 is so high as to make it too dangerous. The French government is actively working to clean it up, but there isn’t enough budget to clean it all up in a reasonable amount of time.
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