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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Really a lot of bombs were dropped. The failure to detonate rate was pretty high. This is because the fuses were primitive and could be easily damaged. Often the duds would bury themselves in the dirt far enough that you couldn’t see them. People weren’t worrying about them all that much as there were fresh bombs coming down daily.
In WWI, about 25% of the artillery shells fired failed to detonate. That’s why there are the Red Zones around the trench areas where unexploded shells and poison gas shells show up all the time. The French deminers who handle them are very brave and I take my hat off to them in respect.
There is a wonderful British TV show called Danger: UXB about dud bombs in WWII and the people who defused them. Highly recommended.
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