OT:UK RAF airfields mined 1939-1945 ?????

[Jethro_uk]

Ah, more like it ! Fascinating tx !

[Vir Campestris]

My father was a FAA pilot. There are a few places where his personal log disagrees with the ship's log.

Andy

[Jac Brown]

I doubt too many Spits did.

That?s different, most likely the individual who buried it got killed so no one else knew where it was buried.

[Andrew Mawson]

It is well documented that many airfields and some roads and bridges had Canadian 'Pipe mines' incorporated following the Dunkirk evacuation to deny them to a German invasion (operation Sealion). Perfectly possible that some are in place as they were still being found in the 1970's

Andrew

[Michael Chare]

No, to quote: The ship, SS Richard Montgomery, an American Liberty ship, was wrecked off the Nore sandbank in the Thames Estuary, near Sheerness, England in

1944, whilst carrying a cargo of munitions. Around 1,400 tonnes (1,500 short tons) of explosives remain on board, which continue to be a hazard to the area.

I have seen the masts from a distance.

[The Natural Philosopher]

The report I read had it classed as a 'pipe bomb' i.e. not a bomb, but a mine

Since almost everyone seems to assume it was a bomb dropped by a plane, there is no reason that detail would have been put in if it was just a German bomb.

[David]

See

An unexploded World War Two bomb has been found on a disused airfield planned to be used as a lorry park in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

The bomb was found earlier at Manston Airport, Kent, and police and army bomb disposal experts were called in.