Hubi@feddit.org to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoBomb dropped by U.S. in World War II explodes at airport in Japan, causing runway damage and cancellation of 80 flightswww.cbsnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkBomb dropped by U.S. in World War II explodes at airport in Japan, causing runway damage and cancellation of 80 flightswww.cbsnews.comHubi@feddit.org to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square31fedilink
minus-squareimPastaSyndrome@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 days agoBut why did they leave it there?
minus-squareRentlar@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 days agoHey Mr. Kimura, where should we build our new airport? Mr. Koizumi, we have a big plot of empty land over here, do you remember why we haven’t built anything there yet? … No? … Okay!
minus-squarejimbolauski@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 days agoSomeone was paid to push dirt over a small hole to build a runway not dig for bombs.
minus-squareJo Miran@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 days agoIt likely buried itself deep into the ground after it dropped from the bomber and failed to detonate.
minus-squareskillissuer@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 days agobombs are single use, there’s no need to pick it up now why it was there in the first place? they probably had no idea, or if there was post-war cleanup it went undetected for some reason
But why did they leave it there?
Hey Mr. Kimura, where should we build our new airport?
Mr. Koizumi, we have a big plot of empty land over here, do you remember why we haven’t built anything there yet?
… No?
… Okay!
Foreshadowing.
Someone was paid to push dirt over a small hole to build a runway not dig for bombs.
It likely buried itself deep into the ground after it dropped from the bomber and failed to detonate.
bombs are single use, there’s no need to pick it up now
why it was there in the first place? they probably had no idea, or if there was post-war cleanup it went undetected for some reason