UNEXPLODED BOMB
ATTEMPT TO REMOVE FUSE LONDON, Dec. 13. Fifty families were sent out of their homes by the police, and buses and trams were diverted while a 24-year-old Royal Engineer lieutenant climbed down a 40ft shaft and attempted to remove the fuse from a 40001 b unexploded German bomb, a “ Hermann,” dropped on' a South Croydon timberyard in January, 1941. The bomb's fuse broke after two and a-half hours’ work, and the attempt has been delayed at least 12 hours. The expert said the bomb was as dangerous as ever, and evacuation would have to be ordered again to-morrow. Bomb-dis-posal men took three months to dig a *haft to the “ Hermann.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26027, 15 December 1945, Page 7
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