“Hidden History: Shocking Discovery of WWII Weapons Buried Beneath Tokyo’s Elementary School Unveils Secrets of the Past”
So far, 22 mines, grenades, and other explosives have been recovered from the Elbe River this summer. Authorities have also detonated two anti-tank mines on the Elbe.
TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP/Getty ImagesA general overview shows the dried out riverbank of Elbe in Magdeburg, eastern Germany on July 26, 2018.
Allied forces dropped over a million tons of bombs on Germany throughout World War II with as many as 10 percent of those bombs failed to explode. Authorities have told the public to not touch any explosives that they find, and instead call the police so that they can safely remove them.
The Allies didn’t drop nearly as many bombs on Japan during World War II. From January 1944 until August 1945, the United States dropped 157,000 tons of bombs on Japanese cities. An estimated 333,000 people were killed as a result of those bombs, including the 80,000 killed in the Hiroshima atomic bomb attack and 40,000 in Nagasaki.
Next, read about this 550-pound WWII bomb that was discovered in Slovenia. Then, check out these powerful images from WWII that you’ve probably never seen before.
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