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Thread #74137 Message #1290791
Posted By: Rapparee
06-Oct-04 - 09:00 PM
Thread Name: BS: Still More Florida Troubles!
Subject: BS: Still More Florida Troubles!
As if Florida hadn't had enough troubles lately....
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Military explosives from World War II training exercises have been found four times along Florida's Atlantic Coast since Hurricane Jeanne blew through the area last month and uncovered them.
The latest find came Monday when Army explosives experts from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station removed a 10 1/2-foot-long, rocket-powered explosive nicknamed "Tiny Tim" from the sands of Vero Beach.
"It's a 500-pound, semi-armor-piercing bomb fitted with a rocket motor," said Sgt. 1st Class Jake Holland of the Army's 766th Ordnance Company. "The rocket had been fired, but the warhead was live."
The coast stretching along Volusia, Brevard and Indian River counties was used in World War II for amphibious landing and other military training. Tank obstacles and other military gear have been found as well.
After bomb experts dug up the bomb by hand Monday, they placed it in a truck on a bed of sand. The bomb was driven 3 miles away, placed in a 12-foot-deep hole, covered with sand and detonated with other explosives.