Bomb (Air Delivered) event in United States of America on Thu 22nd August 2024

22nd August 2024

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Construction team unearths WWII-era bomb at former Colorado military training range

This could have been an explosive find.

Construction crews erecting a housing development in Colorado Monday unwittingly unearthed a piece of American history: a World War II-era bomb.

The cast iron “military ordnance” was found buried in Aurora in what was once the Lowry Bombing and Gunnery Range, the Arapahoe County Sheriff said this week.

Bomb squads were called in to investigate the relic, but X-rays revealed that the mini bomb posed no danger nearly a century after it was launched into the ground.

The device was identified as a Mark 23 Mod 1, which was one of three mini bombs used for bomb training during the Second World War.

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