ok.... who left the live ww 2 bomb found in paris??

[tom d. friedman]

on january 27th a live ww 2 bomb was unearthed at a renault auto factory undergoing renovation in paris. ( with the quality of those cars it should have been allowed to go le boom ) the bomb weighed 880 pounds. had to be british, wouldn't you say?? us yanks just rounded out the tnt weight to 1000 pounds. situations such as this are not uncommon to this day with finding unexploded ordinance in europe, especially at normandy. so who's going to own up to leaving the dud without flushing??

[CH2Tdriver]

"Leesten verrry carefully. I shall say thees only wwwonce!"

[michaelharadon]

It also weighs 400 kilos. Did the Germans bomb Paris in '40?

[agent86]

I know who left the bomb, If you look in the Funny stuff page here at WIX and open the posting named "Carnage at the airshow" you will see who left the bomb. Well actually, you will see the bomber he was in while dropping this nasty explosive. Check it out. it's very,very scary and frightening

[whistlingdeath77]

i can only imagine all the left over stuff still out there.....

[Old SAR pilot]

i can only imagine all the left over stuff still out there.....

They're still cleaning up unexploded ordnance from WWI...

[JDK]

It seems to have been identified as British - maybe as it didn't have the remains of a 'Pickle Barrel' around it?

On March 3 1942, Bomber Command ordered a mission to destroy the Renault factory at Boulogne-Billancourt which was making an estimated 18,000 lorries a year for Nazi forces, who had then been occupying France for two years.

The bombers were sent in three waves, with pilots ordered to bomb the factory as low possible so that the civilian population living nearby were not hit. Flares were also used to light up the target.

Incredibly, there were no flak defences, meaning the planes could drop their explosives almost uninterrupted for a full hour and 50 minutes.

Few German fighters were scrambled against the British either, and there were no collisions, which meant that the RAF only lost a single Wellington Bomber. The tonnage of bombs dropped – some 470 tonnes – was then a record too.

The attack was considered a huge success, and widely publicised at a time when the war was turning in the Allies favour.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... vered.html

I don't think the Germans had reason or opportunity to bomb Paris before or the aircraft after the occupation. However this was a transport factory away from the city centre, which people think of when they think of Paris.

Regards,

[CDF]

Period piece describing the raid
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/mu ... 15063a.pdf