It's Da' Bomb! Military Blows up World War II-Era Bomb Found in Utah Desert

[onedef92]

Military Blows up World War II-Era Bomb Found in Utah Desert

SALT LAKE CITY — Oct 14, 2015, 6:22 PM ET 10 Shares

A man searching for unique rocks in the Utah desert near the Nevada state line recently made an explosive discovery: a World War II-era bomb.

Craig Alvord told Salt Lake City news station KSL-TV this week that the 6-foot-long bomb is the best find he's made in more than 50 years of searching for stones.

Alvord notified the Air Force about the bomb. Though it wasn't discovered within base boundaries, Hill Air Force Base spokesman Richard Essary says its bomb squad detonated it Tuesday afternoon with C4 plastic explosives.

Essary said it appears to be a practice bomb from the World War II era. It may have ended up there because of a test range in the area.

[onedef92]

Guess it was too unstable to drop on ISIS....

[boracayjohnny]

The West Desert area has the UTTR, Utah Test and Training Range aka The Range. In the area closest to where this bomb was found is the Wendover airport which isn't used much now but was the training area for the Enola Gay. The Enola Gay dropped the bomb on Hiroshima.

Factsheets : Utah Test & Training Range (http://www.hill.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=5614)

Historic Wendover Airfield Foundation - Wendover, Utah (http://www.wendoverairbase.com/restoration_enola_gay)

There isn't much out in the West Desert area which is huge and The Range is only a small part. There are ghost towns and even still amazing to me is wagon wheel tracks from the 1800s migration of settlers to California.

[mrvette]

The West Desert area has the UTTR, Utah Test and Training Range aka The Range. In the area closest to where this bomb was found is the Wendover airport which isn't used much now but was the training area for the Enola Gay. The Enola Gay dropped the bomb on Hiroshima.

Factsheets : Utah Test & Training Range (http://www.hill.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=5614)

Historic Wendover Airfield Foundation - Wendover, Utah (http://www.wendoverairbase.com/restoration_enola_gay)

There isn't much out in the West Desert area which is huge and The Range is only a small part. There are ghost towns and even still amazing to me is wagon wheel tracks from the 1800s migration of settlers to California.

BS, gotta be, U can't be serious.....:dance::leaving:

[Madmikeee]

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BS, gotta be, U can't be serious.....:dance::leaving:

Thousands of heavy wagons following the same trail over a hundred years will cause some major compression then it falls into complete disuse so nothing to disturb the tracks . I can see it.

[boracayjohnny]

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BS, gotta be, U can't be serious.....:dance::leaving:

It's true.

[Iron Chef]

North Africa near El-Alamein has over 22 million unexploded bombs and mines from WWII laid by Rommel and the Nazis.