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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Belgian here, from the region where many of these bombs are found. (Ypres, Passchendale, …)
The scale and size of the war was such that there were no people left to see the unexploded bombs.
The houses were gone. The roads were gone. The people were gone. There was only mud.
Many were also dropped at night. The muddy ground causes unexploded ordinance to immediatly be buried on impact.
Words can not explain, so I will share some self-explanatory photographs:
* near Ypres, October 1917 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Chateauwood.jpg/1200px-Chateauwood.jpg
* Ypres, 1918 https://cdn.britannica.com/53/135153-050-D8DDC147/battles-troops-site-town-British-West-Flanders-September-29-1918.jpg
* Passchendaele 1917 https://d3d0lqu00lnqvz.cloudfront.net/media/media/b00ddf7f-b199-4bd3-95d9-41f5430c22bf.jpg
* Passchendaele 1917
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSQocODyBBulcXLKUFgZKCqYOx5Yd3T5ezSfg&usqp=CAU
* Passchendaele before / after the war. Note all the craters on the second picture. Each touching and overlapping the next.
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F8a1peah0s0041.jpg
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