Soldiers in trucks during World War II — Courtesy: Shutterstock — Everett Collection
This week, a construction worker in Florida discovered a piece of history: an inert bomb from World War II that was presumably left over from a closed military base decades before.
Sheriff Al Nienhuis of Hernando County stated, “There’s certainly no way of telling whether it’s live munition or inert because it is so rusted and decayed.”
The M-65 ordinance was discovered next to the Brooksville-Tampa Bay Regional Airport (BKV) by workers who were constructing the future Wilton Simpson Technical College, according to Nienhuis’ office.
According to BKV, the Brooksville Army Airfield began operations in 1942 and, along with MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa and Drew Army Airfield, was used to train pilots and ground troops, including bomb squadrons, throughout the war.
On Tuesday, bomb specialists from MacDill and Citrus County concluded that the device was inert.
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