Tuesday 20 July 2010

The Bomb

Sandwiched between sandbags is a 500 pound American bomb found near to Little Sea. Dropped around 1944 when the Armed Forces were practising for D Day this bomb had laid about 4 ft down until an EOD team picked it up during a routine survey at Studland.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Was this the explosion I heard today and cloud of smoke after whilst on sandbanks beach this afternoon

Swanage Coastguard said...

Yes it was at about 2.20pm?

It was not as big as the EOD expected for a 500lb bomb.

Anonymous said...

There was an identical explosion again today, Thursday 22nd... was this another one? And why wasn't the beach/dunes evacuated again?