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Wild boars unearth World War 2 mortar shells in Polish forest
A group of wild boars dug up 21 unexploded mortar shells from World War 2 in a forest near the village of Bięcino in northern Poland, local police in Słupsk said on 17 March. The ordnance has since ...
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Unexploded mortars, possibly from World War I, found and detonated at airfield in Washington state
Again, the devices were safely detonated. The ordnance appeared to be a World War I Stokes Mortar, the department said. Such bombs were made of a steel or iron cylinder, and were used by British ...
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Unexploded World War I mortars found at construction site, Washington police say
The explosives found Tuesday, Feb. 25, appear to be mortar shells dating back to World War I, the Vancouver Police Department said in a Feb. 26 news release. They were found during construction at ...
A Thousand Snipers in the Sky: The New War in Ukraine
Drones have changed the war in Ukraine, with soldiers adapting off-the-shelf models and swarming the front lines.
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Unexploded mortars, possibly from World War I, discovered at Vancouver’s Pearson Field
The Vancouver Police Department said in a post on X that the devices appear to be Stokes mortars that date back to World War I. An archeologist discovered the first device on Tuesday ...