EOD: A HISTORY OF EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DISPOSAL FROM WORLD WAR II TO TODAY
Coffee or Die Magazine
July 5, 2023 Matt Fratus
The Birth of EOD
Disposal of a British 4,000-pound blockbuster bomb dropped by the RAF during World War II. Found in the Rhine near Koblenz on Dec. 4, 2011. Wikimedia Commons photo.
Although armies have used explosives for centuries, dedicated bomb disposal specialists didn’t exist until World War II.
On Sept. 7, 1940, Nazi Germany conducted a massive bombing raid on London, dropping approximately 337 tons of ordnance in a single day. The bombs that detonated killed 448 civilians.
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