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http://nuovavenezia.gelocal.it/cronaca/2013/08/24/news/proiettile-d-artiglieria-ritrovato-a-zelarino-1.7631105
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sabato 24 agosto 2013
Proiettile d’artiglieria ritrovato a Zelarino
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http://nuovavenezia.gelocal.it/cronaca/2013/08/24/news/proiettile-d-artiglieria-ritrovato-a-zelarino-1.7631105
Da giugno rinvenuti 14 ordigni
Tutto è cominciato con le operazioni di bonifica precedenti all’intervento di ripascimento previsto per alcune spiagge pubbliche del litorale. Il Comune ha affidato l’intervento senza ipotizzare che i metal detector potessero scovare così tanti ordigni inesplosi. E invece a fine maggio nell’arco di pochi giorni lungo le Spiagge bianche sono state trovate 11 mine anticarro, 1 granata antiaerea e infine un colpo di mortaio. In tutti i casi le zone di ritrovamento sono state transennate e il Comune ha emesso specifiche ordinanze per impedire il passaggio di pedoni e mezzi nelle aree circostanti. Ora un’altra bomba nello specchio d’acqua davanti a Vada. Segno evidente di quanto gli arenili del territorio portino alla luce ordigni pericolosi
Fonte:
http://iltirreno.gelocal.it/cecina/cronaca/2013/08/24/news/da-giugno-rinvenuti-14-ordigni-1.7628593
Ordigno bellico da brillare: Spiagge bianche off-limits
Le operazioni, condotte dal Secondo Reggimento Pontieri di Piacenza, si svolgeranno in un’area individuata insieme all’ufficio Locale Marittimo - Guardia Costiera di Vada: si tratta delle Spiagge Bianche in prossimità del cancello di accesso all’arenile stesso di proprietà Solvay, zona ex discarica. Per garantire la sicurezza ed il corretto svolgimento delle operazioni il sindaco Franchi ha firmato due ordinanze con le quali si ordina a tutta la cittadinanza «per lunedì 26 agosto, dalle 10.30 fino al termine delle operazioni per il brillamento dell’ordigno, il divieto di accesso, di transito e stazionamento dei pedoni e di qualunque tipo di mezzo meccanico alla porzione di arenile sita in località Spiagge Bianche in prossimità del cancello di proprietà Solvay, zona ex discarica per un tratto di 180 metri a nord e 180 metri a sud di detto cancello».
Fonte:
http://www.lanazione.it/livorno/cronaca/2013/08/24/938667-vada-spiagge-bianche.shtml
The Robotic Search For Lost World War II Airmen
n a bright morning in mid-March, Pat Scannon stands on the deck of a 40-foot catamaran looking for an airplane hidden in the waters of Palau’s western lagoon. A limestone ridge thick with vegetation juts into the cloudless blue sky behind him. His quick-dry clothing, coupled with a red bandanna knotted around his neck, befits Scannon’s role as an amateur archaeologist. He has spent the past 20 years making annual wreck-hunting trips to Palau, about 500 miles from the Philippines, to find aircraft that had been shot down during one of World War II’s fiercest battles—planes that may still be holding their pilots. His organization, BentProp Project, works to repatriate their remains to the U.S. To guide the search, Scannon ordinarily relies on interviews with Palauan elders, military records, and maps hand-drawn after the war. But on this trip, he has a new tool at his disposal.
Two technicians in a nearby Boston Whaler cradle a small, torpedo-shaped craft, then lower it into the water. Scannon watches as its nose tilts down and its rear propeller pushes it beneath the surface. Out of sight, the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), an oceanographic workhorse called a Remus, begins gliding through the lagoon in a pattern that resembles the long, linear passes of a mowed lawn. From roughly 10 feet above the seafloor, its side-scan sonar sends out acoustic waves that build a two-dimensional map. The strength of the reflected waves also helps distinguish metal from mud or coral.
For a group like BentProp, the use of advanced oceanographic instruments is a huge technological leap forward and one it couldn’t afford on its own. The vehicles come from the University of California, San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Delaware, which received a grant from the U.S. Office of Naval Research. The funding enables oceanographers to test new technologies while helping BentProp locate World War II airmen—an effort they named Project Recover.
The lead scientist is Eric Terrill, director of the Scripps Coastal Observing Research and Development Center. Board shorts and sandals make the athletic oceanographer look more surfer than scientist—he even brought a board on the research vessel for what he calls “wave sampling.” For the past few years, Terrill’s team has used a Remus to study the ocean circulation around Palau.
“Historically, on unmanned underwater platforms, you might spend the better part of your experimental time just ensuring the sensors were functioning, tracking the vehicle navigation, and charging batteries,” he says. “The systems now have matured to where we can run them hard, like outboard motors. The oceanographic community is engineering new sensors for them and having them do smarter things during their searches.”
When Terrill and Scannon met through a mutual friend on the island, a collaboration seemed natural. BentProp could find planes in a tricky marine environment—with steep terrain, fast currents, and coral heads—while Scripps tested circulation models and advanced imaging systems. “If we’re able to use those techniques on natural environments, there’s nothing to say we can’t apply it to the man-made objects on the seafloor,” Terrill says.
Scripps and the University of Delaware shipped 60 packages of equipment to Palau, including underwater vehicles, cameras, various types of sonar, and, for aerial surveys, an autonomous hexacopter drone that had been rebuilt to survive sea spray and aquatic landings. The mangroves growing along the shore around Palau are so dense that aluminum wreckage from aircraft has been found sitting on top of the tree canopy about 30 feet up.
This year, Scannon has his eye on a major prize: a B-24 that he believes had been shot down in Palau’s western reef. With the oceanographers’ help, he hopes, BentProp could find it. “On land our major technology was a machete, and underwater it was scuba tanks,” he says. “The ability to extend our mission is, like, I don’t know how to describe it. It’s like starting out walking, and suddenly you’re in a supersonic jet.”
By the 1920s, Palau had grown into a thriving Japanese port for goods and services en route across the Pacific. Recognizing the strategic location, Japan established an airfield there, and after World War II broke out, it began to shore up its defenses—building hundreds of bunkers and caves to defend the islands from an American attack. General MacArthur, who wanted to secure islands to the east as he prepared to invade the Philippines, ordered that attack in 1944. The U.S. began with a furious air campaign that was designed to knock out Japanese vessels clustered in Palau’s western lagoon and adjacent harbors, and clear the way for an amphibious assault.
That September, the U.S. Marines landed on the island of Peleliu. Although they ultimately won that battle, it came at a terrible cost: 10,000 Japanese and 1,700 Americans were killed in action—the highest casualty rate of World War II’s Pacific Theater. And between the beginning of the air campaign and the end of the war, BentProp estimates, 200 U.S. aircraft were shot down inside Palau’s barrier reef. Some 40 to 50 planes and 70 to 80 airmen have never been recovered. Scannon, a medical doctor and founder of a biotechnology company, first visited Palau in 1993 as a recreational scuba diver. He came with a group looking for a Japanese naval vessel that had been sunk by George H.W. Bush, who flew torpedo bombers during the war. After the group found it, Scannon hired a local guide to take him to other wreck sites, where he eventually discovered the wing of a B-24. When he researched Palau’s history at home, he realized there must be many more planes in ruins around the islands. “Palauans knew of them but didn’t know anything about them,” he says. He was particularly gripped by the thought that many airmen couldn’t have survived the impact. “These people died defending us,” he says. “And they deserve to be honored and, if possible, brought home.”
So began Scannon’s quest. He returned to Palau for the next few years by himself, chasing leads. Then in 1996, he formed BentProp and recruited volunteers, roughly half of whom are retired and active-duty military members, to help him search. Combing the jungle and surrounding waters, they located debris from more than five dozen aircraft.
Last year, local spear fishermen diving on Palau’s western barrier reef stumbled across one of the most impressive finds: an intact plane. They alerted the owner of a dive shop, who passed photos of the wreck along to BentProp. Scannon’s team eventually identified the plane as an American Corsair. It had sustained some damage to its left forward wing root, but the wing flaps were down, and the canopy had been locked open, suggesting that the pilot had ditched. “It had been sitting there unknown for 65 years,” Scannon says. “It gave us great hope that there were other intact airplanes out here that no one has seen.”
BentProp calculates that eight American planes, including a B-24 bomber, remain hidden in Palau’s western lagoon. The B-24, in particular, would be a tremendous discovery. It carried 10 to 11 men, including a pilot and co-pilot, gunners, bombers, a radioman, and a navigator. Of the four B-24s BentProp suspects were shot down near Palau, two were found after the war. BentProp located a third in 2004; the organization notified the Department of Defense’s Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, and the remains of the eight men onboard (three had parachuted out, only to be apprehended and executed) were repatriated to Arlington National Cemetery.
Mission photographs from World War II show the fourth, a Consolidated B-24 Liberator, on a path toward the western lagoon. Two of its crew had bailed out midair, landing in Malakal Harbor to the east, where the Japanese took them into custody; the rest presumably went down with the plane. “We have very, very good information about what heading they were on during the bombing mission, and we have very good information about what heading they took leaving,” Scannon says, on the deck of the research vessel during this year’s expedition. “So bringing the two of those together essentially brings you right here.”
The oceanographic team’s official command center in Palau is on the second floor of the Coral Reef Research Foundation, but their unofficial headquarters is an open-air bar called the Drop Off, originally built for the production crew of CBS’s Survivor: Palau. Several days into the expedition, they head there for dinner and order a round of local Red Rooster beers. As they wait for their food, Mark Moline, an oceanographer from the University of Delaware, opens a Toughbook laptop and scrolls through sonar images produced by the Remus.
Grainy and reddish, the sonar images look like transmissions from Mars. Some show deep scours; others, shadowy trenches. The team have given the features names like Homer Simpson, Crying Baby, and SpongeBob’s Grave. After identifying promising targets in scans, they will have to investigate in person, diving to the various sites to determine if the features are purely biological, like coral heads, or actual wrecks.
Moline pauses on an image with an oblong shape. On closer inspection, it seems to have intact wings and a tail. “We got a plane!” Moline announces. Everyone springs up and huddles around the screen, snapping photos with their phones. Their excitement attracts the attention of a Japanese man dining at the other end of the long communal table, who cranes his neck for a peek at the computer. Moline abruptly shuts the laptop; World War II wrecks attract dive tourists and salvagers.
The next morning, at the coral-reef lab, Terrill debriefs Scannon and the BentProp group. Paul Reuter, a Scripps programmer, projects Google Earth onto a wall. Reuter had used an archival map of observed plane crashes to mark Google Earth layers with known wreck sites; he then added a layer with intriguing objects that had turned up in the sonar images.
Terrill uses a laser pointer to indicate the newest find. “The hard edges provide bright scatter,” he says. “There’s a long shadow here and here.” He then shifts his pointer to a spherical object about 45 meters away and wonders if it could be the pontoon of a floatplane.
“If that’s intact, it tells me it was a low-speed impact, perhaps ditching,” says Daniel O’Brien, a former skydiver and Hollywood stuntman who now volunteers for BentProp. “My first impression is that’s a Zero”—a long-range fighter aircraft. “There are rounded edges at the tail. But if it is a floatplane, the only U.S. airplane it could be would be amphibious. The shape looks like a Kingfisher.” Flip Colmer, a former Navy pilot who now flies for Delta, also with BentProp, reaches for the book Floatplanes in Action and begins flipping through color pictures.
The Kingfisher, O’Brien explains, was typically flown for observation and to rescue downed pilots. “If they were in this deep, it would have been on a risky endeavor. There weren’t anti-aircraft along the ridge. But existing ships that were still moored had anti-aircraft. So for him to come in and land here, it would have been to pick somebody up.”
During World War II, floatplanes in Palau often flew rescue operations. As they scooped airmen from the water, another plane provided cover overhead. BentProp knew that two Kingfishers on reconnaissance missions had disappeared during the war, and the western lagoon seemed the most likely location for them to have ended up. The identification number painted on the plane’s exterior would have degraded by now; to confirm the exact craft, divers would try to recover a stamped metal plate riveted to the inside of the cockpit. “It’s our holy grail,” O’Brien tells me.
Colmer cautions the group about jumping to conclusions. The Japanese also flew seaplanes. “If there’s any primer left on the interior of the cockpit—which will last longer than straight paint—that’s one way to take a peek at it,” he says. U.S. airplanes used lime-green zinc chromate; the Japanese had a red primer. The team will have to get a close look.
Guided by GPS coordinates from the AUV, Pat Colin, director of the Coral Reef Research Foundation, pilots the vessel across the lagoon to the approximate location of the mystery plane. Then Terrill lowers a device called an Echoscope over the side. As we creep along the surface, an onboard computer displays 3-D images of the seafloor in real time.
While side-scan sonar provides a general impression of contours along the bottom, it doesn’t directly measure the elevations of features. The Echoscope, or multibeam volume imaging sonar, does, enabling oceanographers to map topography accurately and in high enough resolution to distinguish man-made objects. Terrill describes it as “the oceanographic seafloor-mapping equivalent of ultrasound sonar used to look inside the human body.” Using the two technologies in tandem helps to narrow wide-area searches and then pick out targets from clutter on the seafloor, so that human divers maximize their time at the correct site.
With the boat now directly over the plane, the dive teams begin to suit up. Terrill fills his scuba tank with nitrox to allow himself more time to explore the aircraft 100 feet below. Shannon Scott, an engineer from Scripps, descends with Terrill, Colmer, and O’Brien. He carries a handheld sonar that displays acoustic images on an LCD screen, allowing the divers to zero in on the floatplane even in five-foot visibility. About 20 minutes later, O’Brien surfaces. “Well, it’s not a Kingfisher,” he says
After descending to the plane, O’Brien noticed that the windscreen on the cockpit was located behind the wing. In Kingfishers, it was situated in front. He’d also detected a subtle distinction in the shape of the fuselage near the tail.
I strap on a scuba tank and jump into the water with Scannon, who wants to see for himself. We follow a rope line, pinching our noses on the way down to equalize pressure, until we arrive at the fuselage. It lays on a bed of thick sediment that our fins kick up into dusty clouds. Long, gangly strands of black coral grow up and through the corroded metal. The front motor and propellers have broken away from the body of the plane, so that it now resembles a chewed-off cigar or the burnt end of a firecracker. Scannon waves me over to the cockpit and places my hand on the gun mount. It held a 7.7mm machine gun, Scannon later explains to me, developed by the Japanese navy.
The next day, BentProp compares the aircraft in the western lagoon with a hundred different vintage planes. Eventually, the team determines that the wreck has all the characteristics of a Kawanishi E15K1 Shiun, code-named Norm by the Allies. The high-speed reconnaissance floatplane had a single engine, contra-rotating propellers, and a center pontoon that could be jettisoned during an attack. It also had a flattened beaver tail around the vertical stabilizer, an aft cockpit machine gun, and no wing armaments. According to BentProp, the Japanese manufactured nine prototypes; six were brought to Palau for combat testing, and all were shot down by U.S. forces.
Though it isn’t an American plane, Scannon is pleased with the discovery. “It’s a very unusual aircraft, one of the rarest archaeological planes you will find,” he says. “And there’s a very high likelihood that the remains are still on it.” BentProp alerts the Palauan government, which will notify the Japanese embassy.
On November 21, 1944, a young Marine captain named Carroll McCullah set off from the American airfield to finish off a Japanese vessel that had been bombed earlier. On the way back, he and his wingman strafed four Japanese ammunition dumps; an explosion at the last one sent shrapnel into the oil cooler of his plane. McCullah placed a distress call and made for the island’s western reef. Then he tightened his seat belt, locked the canopy back, and turned off the plane’s engine switch. Placing his left hand on the cockpit coaming, he braced for impact.
“There was no shock,” McCullah later wrote in a mission report. He launched his life raft and swam across the reef, where a rescue aircraft swept down to pick him up. For the rest of his life,
McCullah—who, after his rescue, went back to the base, had a brandy, and then flew another mission the next day—retold the story of that landing. “And many other ones,” his son, Patrick, told me by phone from Florida, where McCullah lives (with dementia) at age 92. “His tales were tall, but they were true.”
Today, McCullah’s plane rests intact on the seabed, with its nose up against the edge of the reef, like a car driven up onto a curb and abandoned. But time has turned the craft into a relic: corrosion has gnawed at the metal, and the reef has crept into the propellers and the engine; a large, bulbous coral head has taken up occupancy in the cockpit. Originally painted blue, with a white star-and-bar symbol, the aircraft has been scoured to bare aluminum.
Scripps wants to use its technology to document this chapter of the Corsair’s story too, before it ends altogether. “We’re not only here to find and detect underwater objects, but to get a snapshot of the state of those objects that may be corroding or eroding away in time,” Terrill says. “There’s a whole new field in trying to baseline-capture all the detail we can about these historic artifacts. I’m calling it digital preservation.”
Suzanne Finney, an American archaeologist working with Palau’s Bureau of Arts and Culture, joins us for the 45-minute boat ride to the site of the Corsair. Marine archeology rarely gets to benefit from such advances, she says. “Most of the work I’ve done, you’ve got a tape measure and some string and a dive slate and a pencil, and you’re taking photographs and measurements by hand. And that’s what you do.” With data from the robotic vehicles, Palau can add downed aircraft to an inventory of the country’s rich underwater sites, something previously unattainable for an office that can barely afford to buy gas for a boat. “There are a lot of wrecks in water that’s inaccessible to diving,” she says, “so you need remote-sensing equipment.” By the time the expedition ends, the AUV has scanned 18.9 square kilometers of the seafloor at slightly better than 10cm resolution, an area that would have taken scuba divers a decade to explore. The sonar also revealed what Terrill says could be a new species of coral.
When we reach the Corsair, engineers lower the Remus, now equipped with GoPro HERO3 HD cameras, into the water, and it once again begins a methodical sweep. Back in California, Terrill and his team will use the thousands of captured images, plus hundreds of photos taken by human divers, to build a 3-D reconstruction of the plane. Terrill is beta-testing algorithms developed by Autodesk for the company’s new cloud-based, reality-capture software, called ReCap; the software has been designed to model aboveground areas like historic sites and factory floors, and Terrill is evaluating how well it works in an aquatic environment, where light is distorted. “Man-made structures underwater are an ideal testbed for that,” he says. “If it pans out, it’ll be a great archaeological tool to baseline a lot of these wrecks.”
Scientists and naval historians could use such technology to document how wreck sites decay. Oceanographers and biologists studying living structures such as coral reefs could also benefit from it; 3-D models would enable them to detect how ocean acidification and events like typhoons alter reefs over time. And, of course, Scannon hopes that one day AUVs will lead him to his biggest find, the final B-24, so that a perfect replica of it, too, can be recorded for posterity. For now, it still lies somewhere in the lagoons surrounding Palau, concealed by water and time.
Fonte:
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-08/robotic-search-wwii-airmen
Foto: popsci.com
Staff evacuated after unexploded WWII shell found in car park
A builder found the shell, which later turned out to be a dummy, while re-layng the car park at Companies House off Whitchurch Road this morning.
The building is next door to Maindy Barracks, which opened in 1871 and housed US troops in both world wars.
Staff were evacuated from the building and sent home as a "precautionary measure" at 9.10am, with a spokesman for Companies House saying they are now not due back until after the August bank holiday.
Fonte:
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/staff-evacuated-after-unexploded-wwii-5777021
Foto: walesonline
venerdì 23 agosto 2013
Ordigno bellico in contrada Bertolino di mare. È il terzo ritrovamento nella fascia costiera menfitana
di Francesco Graffeo
Attesi gli artificieri, per fare brillare in contrada Bertolino di mare, un ordigno bellico. E’ il terzo ritrovamento, effettuato nella fascia costiera menfitana, nel corso di questa estate. La presunta bomba sommersa, è stata rinvenuta da una bagnante, a circa 100 metri dalla riva. Scattata la segnalazione, sul posto sono arrivati i Carabinieri di Menfi e gli uomini della Polizia municipale.
L’ufficio Circondariale Marittimo di Sciacca, ha diramato un'ordinanza di divieto di transito e balneazione, fino alla rimozione del predetto ordigno, nella zona di mare interessata per un raggio di 200 metri. Il Comune di Menfi, intanto, ha provveduto a transennare il tratto di spiaggia, apponendo idonei cartelli monitori di divieto al fine di garantire la privata e pubblica incolumità. Ora si attende l'arrivo degli artificieri.
Nella zona, sono stati frequenti i ritrovamenti di residuati della Seconda guerra mondiale. Nello stesso luogo, un altro ordigno era stato fatto brillare l’estate scorsa, mentre quest’anno altri due ordigni ritrovati sono stati fatti brillare in contrada Cipollazzo, ed in contrada Fiori. Nell'estate del 2004 tre ordigni, furono ritrovati sulla spiaggia di Lido Fiori.
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Bomba trovata davanti alla spiaggia di Vada
Ordigno bellico trovato sulle spiagge di Vada, nello specchio d’acqua antistante lo stabilimento balneare La Barcaccina. Lunedì mattina, 26 agosto, alle 10.30, la bomba sarà fatta brillare - secondo gli esperti si tratta di un piccolo ordigno risalente alla Seconda Guerra Mondiale. Le operazioni, che saranno portate avanti dal Secondo Reggimento Pontieri di Piacenza, si svolgeranno in'area idonea individuata insieme all'ufficio Locale Marittimo - Guardia costiera di Vada: si tratta dell'arenile in località Spiagge Bianche in prossimità del cancello di accesso all'arenile stesso di proprietà Solvay, zona ex discarica.
Per garantire la sicurezza pubblica ed il corretto svolgimento delle operazioni il sindaco Alessandro Franchi ha firmato due ordinanze (la numero 496 e la numero 497) con le quali si ordina a tutta la cittadinanza «per il giorno lunedì 26 agosto 2013 - dalle ore 10.30 fino al termine delle operazioni previste per la rimozione ed il brillamento del presunto ordigno bellico - il divieto di accesso, di transito e stazionamento dei pedoni e di qualunque tipo di mezzo meccanico alla porzione di arenile sita in località Spiagge Bianche in prossimità del cancello di proprietà Solvay, zona ex discarica per un tratto di 180 metri a nord e 180 metri a sud di detto cancello».
http://iltirreno.gelocal.it/cecina/cronaca/2013/08/23/news/bomba-trovata-davanti-alla-spiaggia-di-vada-1.7621774
CASSINO, INCENDIO STERPAGLIE: VVF SCOPRONO ORDIGNO 2° GUERRA MONDIALE TRA FIAMME
Un grosso ordigno bellico risalente alla Seconda Guerra mondiale è stato ritrovato dai vigili del fuoco mentre spegnevano un incendio di sterpaglie a Belmonte Castello. Il rischio corso dai pompieri intenti a domare il rogo è ovvio, anche perché l'esplosione a causa del fuoco di ordigni che conservano la loro carica distruttiva a distanza di 70 anni dal conflitto è un fatto abbastanza frequente in zona. Quello ritrovato oggi, però, era appoggiato ad un parafrane, quindi qualcuno lo aveva già individuato senza però segnalarlo permettendo che altri corressero oggi il rischio di rimanere coinvolti in una esplosione. Al momento il grosso proiettile è stato adagiato in un posto sicuro nei pressi della superstrada Cassino Sora in attesa dell'intervento degli artificieri. (omniroma.it)Fonte:
http://roma.repubblica.it/dettaglio-news/roma-17:34/22231
Il bombardamento dell’agosto 1944
Nella serata di mercoledì 23 agosto 1944 la città di Voghera subisce
un pesante bombardamento ad opera di una formazione
alleata ( forse americana ).
Secondo diverse testimonianze dell’epoca, la popolazione era ormai
abituata alla presenza degli aerei tanto che, al suono della sirena
d’allarme, molti invece di allontanarsi si mettevano
ad osservare il cielo.
Un simile atteggiamento aveva provocato anche dure reazioni del
comando tedesco in città che, in una nota del 12 luglio,
richiamava il rispetto delle ordinanze riservandosi, in caso contrario
di adottare "misure in merito".
Continua a leggere....http://lombardia.anpi.it/voghera/bomb44.htm
un pesante bombardamento ad opera di una formazione
alleata ( forse americana ).
Secondo diverse testimonianze dell’epoca, la popolazione era ormai
abituata alla presenza degli aerei tanto che, al suono della sirena
d’allarme, molti invece di allontanarsi si mettevano
ad osservare il cielo.
Un simile atteggiamento aveva provocato anche dure reazioni del
comando tedesco in città che, in una nota del 12 luglio,
richiamava il rispetto delle ordinanze riservandosi, in caso contrario
di adottare "misure in merito".
Continua a leggere....http://lombardia.anpi.it/voghera/bomb44.htm
giovedì 22 agosto 2013
Bomba risalente alla seconda guerra mondiale a Oberhausen
Bei Untersuchungen im Rahmen einer Baumaßnahme ist am Holtener Mühlenweg neben einem Altenheim in Oberhausen eine britische Fünf-Zentner-Bombe gefunden worden. Der Kampfmittelräumdienst wird am Montag, 26. August, um 11 Uhr mit der Entschärfung beginnen. Die Größe des Sprengkörpers macht eine Evakuierungszone von 250 Metern und eine Sicherheitszone von 500 Metern um die Fundstelle erforderlich. Der Evakuierungsbereich muss am Entschärfungstag bis 10.30 Uhr geräumt sein.
Davon ist auch unsere Stadt betroffen. Zum Glück liegt die Gegend, in der Menschen ihre Häuser verlassen müssen, in einem eher nicht so dicht bebauten Bereich: In Duisburg betrifft diese Aufforderung daher nur fünf Menschen. Im Bereich zwischen 250 und 500 Metern um den Bombenfundort ist der Aufenthalt im Freien für die Dauer der Entschärfung untersagt. Fenster und Türen sind in dieser Zeit geschlossen zu halten. In der Sicherheitszone leben etwa 320 Menschen.
Auch der Revierpark Mattlerbusch ist davon betroffen. Wer also zur Niederrheintherme möchte, muss entweder früh sein oder warten, bis das Relikt des Krieges entschärft ist: Am Montag werden ab 10.30 Uhr keine Menschen mehr in den Sicherheitsbereich gelassen und die Straßen werden für den Verkehr gesperrt. Beginn und Ende der Entschärfungen werden durch Lautsprecherdurchsagen bekanntgegeben. Die Bewohner des Oberhausener Altenheims werden vorübergehend in einem Gemeindehaus in der Nähe untergebracht.
VON TIM HARPERS
Foto: Evers, Gottfried (RP Online)
Cane trova bomba a mano inesplosa
Fonte:
http://nuovavenezia.gelocal.it/cronaca/2013/08/22/news/cane-trova-bomba-a-mano-inesplosa-1.7620594
Ordigno bellico al Calzavecchio: 3.000 famiglie evacuate l'8 settembre
Un ordigno bellico di 300 chili, probabilmente di fabbrizazione americana, rinvenuto a luglio e che sarà rimosso l'8 settembre. La bomba, della seconda guerra mondiale con oltre un quintale di polvere esplosiva, è stata scoperta durante gli scavi per la ristrutturazione dello storico albergo-ristorante Calzavecchio a Casalecchio.
Circa 3.000 le famiglie che il giorno del disinnesco dovranno lasciare le proprie abitazioni: verrà inoltre fermata la circolazione stradale e autostradale, forse anche i treni. Come di consueto, dopo il dispolettamento, la bomba verrà fatta brillare in una cava di Pianoro
Fonte:
http://www.bolognatoday.it/cronaca/bomba-casalecchio-calzavecchio-8-settembre-2013.html
Una mina sulla spiaggia di Skallingen Blavands a nord ovest di Esbjerg
»Klokken 17.58 modtager vi et opkald fra en tysk turist, der har fundet noget, der ligner en mine. Han bliver bedt om at blive på stedet og sørge for at andre holder sig på afstand,« fortæller vagtchef Henrik Sønderskov
Et billede af minen taget med en smartphone bliver sendt til Forsvarets Sprængningstjeneste, som sender bombeeksperter til stedet.
De vurderer, at minen skal bortsprænges på stedet.
Klokken 22.32 meldes til vagtchefen, at minen er bortsprængt.
Fonte:
http://www.b.dk/nationalt/tysk-turist-finder-mine-paa-strand
Foto: b.dk/nationalt (archivio)
Sebastopoli: ancora una bomba risalente alla guerra mondiale
Об этом сообщает пресс-служба ГУ ГСЧС Украины в Севастополе.
«Обнаруженный в Севастополе возле железной дороги боеприпас пиротехники идентифицировали, как немецкую авиабомбу SD-50 времен ВОВ. Ее вес – 50 кг, диаметр – 200 мм», - сообщили в пресс-службе ведомства.
Авиабомба находилась на глубине полуметра. Ее выявили в Нахимовском районе города возле станции «Мекензиевы горы» при прокладке сигнальных кабелей вблизи железнодорожного полотна, по которому проходят грузовые поезда.
Работы по разминированию бомбы заняли порядка 20 минут. Боеприпас загрузили на специальный автомобиль аварийно-спасательного отряда и транспортировали на полигон.
На время проведения пиротехнических работ движение поездов было прекращено, а территория вокруг опасной находки оцеплена.
Fonte:
http://www.ukrinform.ua/rus/news/v_sevastopole_obezvredili_ocherednuyu_bombu_vremen_voyni_1548197
Foto: ukrinform.ua/rus
Une bombe de la Seconde Guerre mondiale au large de Boulogne-sur-Mer
Une bombe de 500 kg datant de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, remontée
par un navire de pêche, a été détruite mercredi matin par les
plongeurs-démineurs de la Marine nationale, a indiqué la préfecture
maritime de la Manche et de la mer du Nord.
Le chalutier "Dieu a bien fait" avait remonté dans ses filets mardi en
début d'après-midi la bombe anglaise de 1.000 livres, alors qu'il se
trouvait à environ 24 km des côtes au large de Boulogne-sur-Mer
(Pas-de-Calais) avec cinq personnes à son bord. Après
intervention des secours et d'experts, l'engin a été remis à l'eau et
protégé afin que personne ne s'en approche. L'équipe de
plongeurs-démineurs de la Manche, basée à Cherbourg mais qui était en
mission à proximité de Wissant, a pu intervenir immédiatement. La
destruction a eu lieu mercredi matin vers 10H30.Fonte:
http://www.7sur7.be/7s7/fr/1505/Monde/article/detail/1690509/2013/08/21/Une-bombe-de-la-Seconde-Guerre-mondiale-au-large-de-Boulogne-sur-Mer.dhtml
mercoledì 21 agosto 2013
Nach der Bombe wurde ganz gezielt gesucht
Der Fund einer
250-Kilo-Bombe lähmte am Mittwoch die Stadt Leipheim. Am späten Vormittag
fanden die Männer der Firma Terrasond, die mit der Kampfmittelräumung auf dem
ehemaligen Fliegerhorstgelände beauftragt sind, das Fünf-Zentner-Teil im
Eingangsbereich des ehemaligen Militärgeländes. Entwarnung gab es um 14.50 Uhr,
als der Sprengmeister die gelungene Entschärfung über Funk weitergab. Alles
ging gut aus, es wurde niemand verletzt. Die amerikanische Fliegerbombe wurde
nicht zufällig gefunden, sondern wir haben sie ganz gezielt gesucht“, sagte
Roger Flakowski von Terrasond. Aufgrund der Luftauswertung in Bezug auf
Blindgänger aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg sei ein Verdachtspunkt im Eingangsbereich
des Fliegerhorsts bekannt gewesen. Mithilfe von GPS-Daten suchten die
Fachmänner mit einer ferromagnetischen Sonde nach einer Bombe. „Als wir sie im
Erdreich unter einem Parkplatz geortet hatten, näherten wir uns ganz vorsichtig
mit Bagger, Schaufel und zum Schluss mit der Hand“, beschrieb Flakowski das
Vorgehen. Das war gegen 11.30 Uhr. Dann wurde auf das Sprengkommando zur
Entschärfung des brisanten Fundes gewartet. Parallel dazu begann in einem
Radius von 300 Metern die Evakuierung. Etwa 50 Badegäste im Gartenhallenbad und
Kunden im V-Markt verließen zusammen mit den Angestellten die Gebäude. Auch
Gebäudekomplexe an der Theodor-Heuss-Straße auf dem Zweckverbandgelände und die
nahe gelegene Jet-Tankstelle wurden geräumt. Das Altenheim des Rummelsberger
Stifts war nicht betroffen, da es nicht innerhalb der
300-Meter-Evakuierungszone lag. Horst Gaede vom Bauamt der Stadt Leipheim bat
Anwohner innerhalb des Evakuierungsbereichs, ihre Häuser zu verlassen. Aribert
Blanz von der Firma Schwaben-Netz war wegen der nahen Erdgasleitung vor Ort.
Polizei und Feuerwehr riegelten nach und nach alle Straßen in der Umgebung ab.
Während der eigentlichen Entschärfung war auch die Verbindungsstraße von
Leipheim nach Günzburg, die ehemalige Bundesstraße 10, gesperrt. Die Leitung
der Einsatzkräfte bezog in der Ludwigstraße Stellung. Am Ende waren nur noch
Sprengmeister und Kampfmittelbeseitigungskommando im inneren Bereich. Nicht nur
die 22 Einsatzkräfte der Freiwilligen Feuerwehr Leipheim unter ihrem ersten
Kommandanten Martin Schmitz, sondern auch die Polizei mit Hauptkommissar Alfred
Ostermöller an der Spitze sowie das Rote Kreuz mit leitendem Notarzt Dr. Marc
Ventzke und sieben Einsatzkräften hofften auf einen guten Ausgang. Endlich, gut
20 Minuten nach dem Vollzug der Evakuierung, gab Ostermöller den erwarteten
Funkspruch weiter: „Die Bombe ist entschärft, der Einsatz wird beendet.“ Am
Fundort wurde die Fünf-Zentner-Bombe mit einem Bagger aus der zwei Meter tiefen
Grube gehoben und in den Kleintransporter des Sprengmeisters verladen. „Sie war
ganz normal zu entschärfen“, gab sich Sprengmeister Josef Beier aus Ingolstadt
gelassen. 120 Kilo Sprengstoff seien in der Bombe, die nach der Entschärfung in
einen Bunker gebracht, zersägt und vernichtet wurde. Schnell kehrte wieder
Leben in die Evakuierungszone zurück. Supermarkt, Tankstelle und
Gartenhallenbad öffneten wieder, die Einsatzkräfte zogen ab. Die Männer der
Kampfmittelbeseitigung blieben, schließlich ging die Suche nach Blindgängern
weiter.
Foto: augsburger-allgemeine.de
Più di 100 residuati bellici rinvenuti lungo la riva del mare Maryland.
We're told they were World War II ordnances found buried beneath the sand by visitors Monday. They were found at the National Park Beach near the State Park border. Officials say it's not unusual for ordnances to be found at the beach, because like many coastal islands, Assateague was used as a military test range during World War II, but what is unusual, is the amount uncovered.
After speaking with Department of Army, officials at Assateague Island National Seashore, say they are planning a more in-depth assessment on the situation, with assistance from the Army Corps of Engineers.
The Parks were only temporarily closed as a precaution and have since been reopened with limited parking.
Fonte:
http://wnow.worldnow.com/story/22685257/controlled-explosion-of-wwii-ordnance-on-assateague-closes-beach
Foto: wnow.worldnow.com
Macherio, bombe lungo la ferrovia
di Erica Sironi Macherio -
Sono durate dalle 9 alle 11 di mercoledì mattina in via Pasubio, intersezione con via Trento e Trieste a Macherio, le operazioni degli artificieri del decimo reggimento Genio Guastatori di Cremona per disinnescare, recuperare e far brillare le undici bombe a mano, oltre a due spolette da mortaio rinvenute nei giorni scorsi all’ interno di un sifone di scolo adiacente alla linea ferroviaria Seregno – Carnate, nel tratto tra le stazioni di Lesmo e Macherio – Sovico. Molte le Forze dell’ ordine impegnate. Sul posto oltre all’ Esercito, erano presenti i vigili del fuoco di Seregno, la Polizia ferroviaria, la Polizia locale di Macherio Sovico, Protezione civile di Macherio – Sovico, i carabinieri di Biassono, la Croce Rossa Italiana di Monza e un’ automedica del 118, i responsabili di Rfi e della ditta di manutenzione Piero Boni di Belluno. Sono stati proprio gli operai della ditta bellunese a rinvenire nei giorni scorsi le bombe a mano risalenti alla seconda guerra mondiale e tutte in pessimo stato di conservazione, durante alcuni lavori di manutenzione ordinaria al sifone. Le operazioni sono iniziate questa mattina alle 9 con lo svuotamento del sifone e il successivo recupero delle bombe, posizionate dagli artificieri all’ interno di un catino e trasportate fino al centro dell’ area verde. Qui gli artificieri hanno coperto con un cumulo di terra gli undici ordigni e le due spolette, concludendo l’ operazione con la distruzione delle stesse e un forte boato senza alcun danno a cose o persone. Già in passato erano stati rinvenuti ordigni all’ interno di pozzi della linea ferroviaria, riconducibili alla seconda guerra mondiale.
Fonte:
http://www.ilcittadinomb.it/stories/Cronaca/macherio-bombe-lungo-la-ferrovia-due-ore-per-bonificare-la-zona_1020809_11/
Foto:ilcittadino
Trova bomba a mano in solaio di casa - Risale alla guerra
Fonte:
http://www.ogginotizie.it/267210-trova-bomba-a-mano-in-solaio-di-casa-risale-alla-guerra/#.UhV9BJBH7IU
Milano: rinvenuto ordigno bellico risalente alla guerra mondiale
martedì 20 agosto 2013
Trovata una bomba, allarme al mulino
La bomba è stata scorta nel fossato da un passante che ha subito provveduto ad avvertire i carabinieri.
Sul posto si sono recati i carabinieri della stazione di Crocetta, che hanno provveduto a isolarla e metterla perciò in sicurezza lì sul posto dove è stata trovata, in attesa che arrivino gli artificieri dell'esercito a prelevarla e a portarla in cava per farla brillare. L'ordigno bellico era intatto, a posto anche l'innesco a corona, quindi una bomba inesplosa, una delle tante che si trovano un po' in tutta la zona che è stata teatro di eventi bellici.
Una volta verificato che si trattava di un ordigno bellico inesploso, e che nel luogo dove è stata trovata non costituiva un pericolo, i carabinieri hanno avvertito la Prefettura perché avvii la procedura per prelevare e far esplodere l'ordigno rinvenuto nella zona del mulino Follador a Cornuda. (e.f.)
Fonte:
http://tribunatreviso.gelocal.it/cronaca/2013/08/20/news/trovata-una-bomba-allarme-al-mulino-1.7608810
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