Today's detonation is the largest evacuation exercise involving a World War II relic. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE - The World War II bomb triggering the largest evacuation exercise involving such a relic here was likely dropped during the Battle of Bukit Timah in February 1942, the final stage of Singapore’s fall to the Japanese.the bomb uncovered last Wednesday at a condominium construction site
When dropped from a height by a plane diving at a speed of 320kmh, bombs of that weight can easily penetrate several metres underground, said Dr Euan Graham, a senior analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. Citing a blaze in 1967 involving exploding old bombs on a US aircraft carrier that killed 134 people, he said: “The explosives were unstable, so when they caught fire, the bombs exploded in a much shorter time than they were actually designed for.”
He said: “To give a comparison of the damage a WWII-era bomb can cause, in Limburg, Germany, in June 2019, a 250kg bomb accidentally exploded in a farm field, creating a crater 10m wide and 4m deep. Based on records, aerial explosives such as the recently discovered one were the most common aircraft bomb type, with more than 6,000 dropped during the Malayan campaign, said Mr Yeo.
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