V-1s found in Germany - Aircraft of World War II

DerAdlerIstGelandet · 10-15-2006, 02:00 PM

I have not seen anything about it on the internet yet but on the German news today when I got home they said they found 3 live V-1 Flying Bombs in Hannover, Germany today. They had to evacuate 22,000 people from the area while they defused them and removed them.

evangilder · 10-15-2006, 03:02 PM

Wow! I wonder what kind of shape they are in. Sounds like something for a museum.

FLYBOYJ · 10-15-2006, 03:07 PM

WOW!!!

DerAdlerIstGelandet · 10-15-2006, 03:23 PM

Not sure I have been searching the internet for it but have not found it yet. According the news they removed so many because they were found in a business area and many people were at work (Hannover is a larger city) and there also was a large retirement home there where it was found.

MacArther · 10-16-2006, 01:12 AM

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large retirement home there where it was found.

I do hope you mean that the V-1s were found in the same city as the retirement home, because it would be a little scary for some retiree to come up to you saying that he or she found a gigantic missile sitting around.

v2 · 10-16-2006, 04:08 AM

Translate Adler, please...
Massenevakuierung - Fliegerbomben problemlos entschärft
Die bislang größte Evakuierungsaktion seit Kriegsende ist in Hannover ohne Probleme zu Ende gegangen: Experten entschärften drei Fliegerbomben aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Zuvor hatten sich 22.000 Menschen in Sicherheit gebracht.

Hannover - Experten des Munitions- und Kampfmittelbeseitigungsdienstes hatten die Drei- und Fünf-Zentner-Blindgänger unter Grünflächen eines Wohngebietes aus etwa 6,5 Metern Tiefe freigelegt und deren Zünder entfernt, wie die Feuerwehr mitteilte. Alle Sicherheitsmaßnahmen seien am Nachmittag wieder aufgehoben worden.
Vor der Bombenentschärfung mussten im Umkreis von etwa einem Kilometer rund 22.000 Menschen evakuiert werden. Betroffen waren 11.000 Haushalte sowie zwei Alten- und Pflegeheime in den Stadtteilen Sahlkamp und Vahrenheide.
In einer Schule wurde eine Sammelstelle eingerichtet. Etwa 200 pflegebedürftige Menschen wurden in einer Kaserne ärztlich betreut.
Die Polizei sprach von einer relativ reibungslosen Evakuierung. 1000 Feuerwehrleute, Polizisten sowie Hilfsorganisationen und Bundeswehrmitarbeiter waren im Einsatz.
Die englischen und amerikanischen Fliegerbomben wurden am 3. Oktober 1943 über Sahlkamp und Vahrenheide abgeworfen. Die vor rund zehn Jahren freigegebenen Luftbildaufnahmen der Alliierten zeigen nach Angaben des Feuerwehrsprechers Alfred Falkenberg, dass noch mehrere 100 Blindgänger inzwischen seit 63 Jahren unter der Erde in Hannover liegen. "Hannover wurde im Krieg zu 90 Prozent zerstört", sagte er.
Die von der Evakuierung Betroffenen verhielten sich sehr diszipliniert, sagte ein Polizeisprecher. Die weitaus meisten verließen bereits zu Beginn der Aktion ab neun Uhr ihre Wohnungen und Häuser. Für sie standen zwei Schulen zur Verfügung. Die Polizei sorgte mit etwa 400 Einsatzkräften dafür, dass alle der Aufforderung nachkamen. Sie klingelten und klopften an den Wohnungstüren und informierten die Bewohner mit Lautsprecherdurchsagen auch auf Türkisch und Russisch. Im Fall einer strikten Weigerung, die Wohnung zu verlassen, hätte die Polizei auch Zwang angewendet.

DerAdlerIstGelandet · 10-16-2006, 12:51 PM

I will have to translate that later but the whole situation seems to be clarrified now. They were not V-1s but rather 3 bombs dropped from US bombers.

Parmigiano · 10-16-2006, 12:57 PM

In effect it sounded strange: I never heard that Hannover area was a launch site for V1.

DerAdlerIstGelandet · 10-16-2006, 01:33 PM

I dont know how they got that mixed up and called them V-1s on the German news. Stupid media.

DerAdlerIstGelandet · 10-16-2006, 01:34 PM

According to the artical about it today in the Stars and Stripes the most notable recent find of US or British Bombs in Germany was in the Berlin Olympic Stadium where the World Cup Final was played this year. They were renovating a section of it and found a live bomb from WW2 in it back in 2002.

Soundbreaker Welch? · 10-18-2006, 10:44 PM

That bomb looks pretty old to be blowing itself up but it's hard to tell how much active material it could have left in it I guess.

DerAdlerIstGelandet · 10-20-2006, 05:45 AM

They said that one bomb (probably the one in the picture above) was destroyed when it hit the ground 60 years ago and posed no chance of exploding. The other 2 though were live and in good condition and could have exploded at any time.

timshatz · 10-20-2006, 10:38 AM

You gotta wonder how many people's last words were "Do you think this thing will still go off after all these years?"

R-2800 · 10-20-2006, 10:48 AM

wow i wishe trey really did find some V-1's that would have been great museum piece

R-2800 · 10-20-2006, 10:48 AM

wow i wish they really did find some V-1's that would have been great museum piece

10-15-2006, 02:00 PM	#1
DerAdlerIstGelandet Der Crewchief Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany Posts: 33,152	V-1s found in Germany I have not seen anything about it on the internet yet but on the German news today when I got home they said they found 3 live V-1 Flying Bombs in Hannover, Germany today. They had to evacuate 22,000 people from the area while they defused them and removed them. __________________ fly boy:"isnt that the first jet bomber becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles"[/I]

10-15-2006, 03:02 PM	#2
evangilder "Shooter" Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA Posts: 14,807	Wow! I wonder what kind of shape they are in. Sounds like something for a museum. __________________ http://www.vg-photo.com For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return. Leonardo Da Vinci

10-15-2006, 03:07 PM	#3
FLYBOYJ IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Colorado, USA Posts: 16,050	WOW!!! __________________ "IF ITS RED OR DUSTY, DON'T TOUCH IT"

10-15-2006, 03:23 PM	#4
DerAdlerIstGelandet Der Crewchief Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany Posts: 33,152	Not sure I have been searching the internet for it but have not found it yet. According the news they removed so many because they were found in a business area and many people were at work (Hannover is a larger city) and there also was a large retirement home there where it was found. __________________ fly boy:"isnt that the first jet bomber becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles"[/I]

10-16-2006, 12:51 PM	#7
DerAdlerIstGelandet Der Crewchief Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany Posts: 33,152	I will have to translate that later but the whole situation seems to be clarrified now. They were not V-1s but rather 3 bombs dropped from US bombers. __________________ fly boy:"isnt that the first jet bomber becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles"[/I]

10-16-2006, 12:57 PM	#8
Parmigiano Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Campospinoso (PV), Italy Posts: 682	In effect it sounded strange: I never heard that Hannover area was a launch site for V1. __________________ "God is dead" - Friedrich Nietzsche, 1882 "Nietzsche too" - God, Aug 25, 1900 He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. - Douglas Adams In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. - Douglas Adams

10-16-2006, 01:33 PM	#9
DerAdlerIstGelandet Der Crewchief Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany Posts: 33,152	I dont know how they got that mixed up and called them V-1s on the German news. Stupid media. __________________ fly boy:"isnt that the first jet bomber becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles"[/I]

10-16-2006, 01:34 PM	#10
DerAdlerIstGelandet Der Crewchief Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany Posts: 33,152	According to the artical about it today in the Stars and Stripes the most notable recent find of US or British Bombs in Germany was in the Berlin Olympic Stadium where the World Cup Final was played this year. They were renovating a section of it and found a live bomb from WW2 in it back in 2002. __________________ fly boy:"isnt that the first jet bomber becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles"[/I]

10-18-2006, 10:44 PM	#11
Soundbreaker Welch? Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Colorado, USA Posts: 1,893	That bomb looks pretty old to be blowing itself up but it's hard to tell how much active material it could have left in it I guess. __________________ "His motor's conked out!" "What's the differance, they're all Nazis!" "Luke, shut up!" "Fear the hook!" "Oh.....I wanna fly." "You mean the kind that go under water and fly up the stairs?" "What you doing? Oh Nooooo!"

10-20-2006, 05:45 AM	#12
DerAdlerIstGelandet Der Crewchief Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany Posts: 33,152	They said that one bomb (probably the one in the picture above) was destroyed when it hit the ground 60 years ago and posed no chance of exploding. The other 2 though were live and in good condition and could have exploded at any time. __________________ fly boy:"isnt that the first jet bomber becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles"[/I]

10-20-2006, 10:38 AM	#13
timshatz Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Phila, Pa Posts: 3,446	You gotta wonder how many people's last words were "Do you think this thing will still go off after all these years?"

10-20-2006, 10:48 AM	#14
R-2800 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: New Jersey Posts: 541	wow i wishe trey really did find some V-1's that would have been great museum piece __________________ www.airvictorymuseum.org "All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us... they can't get away this time." V-DUB!!!!!!! My 71 Beetle is now.....in two pieces....

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