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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You wouldn’t necessarily know where exactly the bombs or artillery shells landed.
Imagine you’re at home, when you hear explosions start going off in the distance. You and your family go down into the basement which hopefully offers some protection. You can’t see anything, all you can hear are thumps and booms, some nearby, some far away. Eventually the noise stops, and you come out of the basement. There is a lot of churned up dirt everywhere, a bunch of big craters and destruction. It would be easy to miss a comparatively small hole where a big heavy bomb that didn’t explode buried itself in the ground. You clean up your yard as best you can, smoothing everything out, and you don’t bother to put any kind of specialty marker on each and every hole you find. Then 50 years later your grandkids are remodeling the house and when they dig up the yard they find a mysterious metal tube.
An important factor is just how many bombs and shells were fired in these wars. It isn’t hundred, or thousands, we’re talking MILLIONS of bombs and artillery shells. All over the place. That means thousands of bombs that might have failed to go off, scattered everywhere across the countryside.
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