Recently, in 1945, a British tallboy-type bomb was dropped in Poland, which firefighters wanted to defuse in the waters of the Piast Canal.

Although World War II ended 75 years ago, to this day we find bombs that did not explode during the fighting. They vary in size, but most of the time they come across a hand grenade or explosive device dropped from an airplane. In Poland a Reuters according to a tallboy-type bomb dropped by the British Crystal Air Force it was found near the city of Świnoujście.

The bomb was dropped by the British Air Force in 1945 to destroy a German cruiser. The structure weighed almost 5,400 kilograms, of which 2,400 kilograms were explosives, the largest WWII bomb ever discovered after the world war.

750 people were evacuated from the area when Polish Navy firefighters tried to disable the device. However, the deflagration process, that is, slow firing, could only begin, not end: the bomb exploded in the Piast canal under water.

Fortunately, all of the people were out of the danger zone at the time of the explosion, so no one but the scare was in trouble.

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