The brick in the picture would be about nine inches long. Wartime. The one metre, 39 inch long bomb looks to be about four bricks long. Maybe when it had fins, since rusted or torn away, it might have been a metre. Which fits with the German passion for neatness. I stereotype. Naughty me.
The SC500 bomb was indeed 80 inches long but that includes the sheet metal tail section and the fins which are not visible here and may have become detached when it hit the ground or rusted away.
IF this was truly a (very common) SC500 not a misidentified smaller bomb.
"Where did the other 40 inches go?!"
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The brick in the picture would be about nine inches long. Wartime.
ReplyDeleteThe one metre, 39 inch long bomb looks to be about four bricks long.
Maybe when it had fins, since rusted or torn away, it might have been a metre.
Which fits with the German passion for neatness. I stereotype. Naughty me.
The SC500 bomb was indeed 80 inches long but that includes the sheet metal tail section and the fins which are not visible here and may have become detached when it hit the ground or rusted away.
ReplyDeleteIF this was truly a (very common) SC500 not a misidentified smaller bomb.
Maybe Mitchell C. Vest (see next post) might like to shove it up his arse (under his kilt, of course).
ReplyDeleteHow typical!
ReplyDeleteA woman (inconveniently) noticing the difference between a bombs claimed dimension and reality.
I just bet the poor residents were forced out by a document showing a pristine, factory-fresh, teenage bomb too. Not that rusted and aged relic.
"As the actress said to the bishop . . ."
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"Maybe when it had fins, since rusted or torn away, it might have been a metre."
Oh, yes, I suppose, being thinner, they'd be the first to go?
"IF this was truly a (very common) SC500 not a misidentified smaller bomb."
How fascinating that there's an identification chart for WWII ordnance!
"Maybe Mitchell C. Vest (see next post) might like to shove it up his arse (under his kilt, of course)."
OOoh, missus!
"How typical!
A woman (inconveniently) noticing the difference between a bombs claimed dimension and reality."
We're hardwired to do it 🤣