Urgent Evacuation: Builders found a bomb of World War II near the airport

A team of sappers was called to the scene. Explosives were determined that the old Mark 65 ammunition weighed 453 kilograms and was developed for the US Armed Forces in 1939. In the United States, a construction brigade, which worked at the future college near the airport in Florida, found an inert bomb of World War II. Upi writes about it.

The Ernando Sheriff Sheriff's office reported that the builders worked at the site of the future Technical College of Wilton Simpson in Brooksville, near the Bruksville-Tampa Bay Regional Airport, when they found an ammunition. Law enforcement agencies evacuated the area almost a kilometer to each direction and blocked the surrounding roads, waiting for the sappers. Explosives were determined that the Mark 65 bomb weighing 1000 lb. (453 kg) of the Second World War, which collapsed was inert.

The sheriff's office reported that the ammunition will be disposed of from the McDill Air Force base in the Ohp. The origin of the bomb is associated with the military airfield of the Second World War, which occupied this area of ​​land before it became a regional airport. In those years, B-17 Flying Fortresses and B-24 Liberator were conducted. Earlier, Focus reported that the American had stored an inert nuclear rocket in the garage.