"Vietnam War-era bomb found in Phnom Penh suburb" Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 24 Dec 2020 5:02 a.m. PST |
During the excavation of a construction site, an MK 82 low-drag general-purpose bomb weighing 230 kilogrammes was found on Tuesday in northwest Phnom Penh… link |
 Legion 4   | 24 Dec 2020 10:10 a.m. PST |
I'm sure there are more … They are still finding WWII ordinance in Europe, etc., to this day as well. |
| 79thPA | 24 Dec 2020 11:24 a.m. PST |
Shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. |
| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 24 Dec 2020 11:53 a.m. PST |
this year has so far seen eight people killed and 27 others injured by landmines and UXOs It's still a dangerous place 40 years later. |
Old Glory  | 24 Dec 2020 5:55 p.m. PST |
There still finding them in Germany from WW2 so what's the surprise here ?? Russ Dunaway |
| gisbygeo | 24 Dec 2020 6:35 p.m. PST |
It was probably dropped during the war. |
| Legion 4 | 25 Dec 2020 9:16 a.m. PST |
I mentioned this event before. When I was on the DMZ in '85. With a forward deployed Mech Bn of the 2ID. A local farmer found an unmarked landmine left over from the Korean War. Probably had been sitting there since '53. Blew part of his foot off. We went in to medevac him. AFAIK he lived. The old minefields from the war are generally marked. But somehow this one mine was missed. He may have gone that way a number of times previously, but one day he stepped on the old mine. We had no idea who planted it back in '53. The US or the North Koreans. Does not matter, I guess. After that we wondered how many other mines were out there. That have not been found… yet … |
| Skarper | 25 Dec 2020 11:13 p.m. PST |
The article is in Vietnamese but recently a box of M60 ammo turned up. Someone bought the ammo can to store tools or whatever and when they opened it it was full of live 7.62mm ammo! We still get a lot of forest fires caused by white phosphorous marker rockets going off decades too late. One reason there is so much UXO in South East Asia [besides the quantities dropped being astronomical] is the US dropped a lot of old ordnance dating back to the Korean War. This led in part to the USS Forrestal fire being so uncontrollable. |
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