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