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Old August 28th, 2006, 05:11 PM
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Re: World War II Shell Blast Kills Russian Boy

Live WWII bombs, mines, and unexploded shells are still all over the place:

From Chicago airman's remains to be buried in D.C.:
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In August 2002, a team from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, responsible for accounting for missing servicemen, was told that a French aircraft wreckage-hunting group had found a crash site near the village where the B-17G went down. The U.S. team surveyed the site, excavated it in July 2004 and recovered human remains, personal effects and crew-related materials in the wreckage. Also found were six unexploded 250-pound bombs.
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