A Missouri woman made an explosive discovery – a “live” World War II Japanese bomb – by removing excess rain from her backyard.
Pamela Coffey said that her Saturday at her home in rural Bernhardt was fairly normal as she and her husband Sam cleaned an inconspicuous part of their yard, where they were finding “some very strange things”. Remembered on facebook.
But nothing prepared him for a cylinder-like item that he later confirmed to be a World War II Japanese naval mortar.
“This was done X-ray,” Coffey’s post continued. “It’s live … Seriously, my day had just started, I wanted to remodel some grape vines.”
Pamela Told KSDK The mortar carved with Japanese lettering was “slightly larger” than his palm and left rust marks on the gardening gloves.
Her husband looked closely, unaware of the strange discovery.
“The next thing you know, I’m sitting in our dining room, splattering on the table with a knife that I’m trying to clean,” Sam Coffey told the station. “We are trying to figure out what is the point when she screams from the kitchen!” I think it might be the bomb! “”
Pamela used Google lens image recognition technology to identify the bomb. The couple then called a team of police and north investigators, including the St. Louis Regional Bomb and Arson Unit, to determine that it was a Japanese bomb with a 500-foot blast range.
“I want to see what that looks like!” Pamela told the station.
He got his wish as it later exploded at the Scott Air Force in Clare County, where explosive ordnance disposal personnel blew mortar. The team leader sent his footage of the blast, according to his Facebook post.
“fire in the Hole!” A man says before the mortar blows – a swift explosion and a large fireball, footage shown by The Post shows.
It is unclear how the bomb was found on the property, which Coffey said she left 16 months ago, CNN reported.
“They said it was a super rare find and we are lucky that we found it before we started digging,” Coffey told CNN, referring to the planned work on the couple’s mountain estate.
“Now we’re buying metal detectors,” he said. “It’s been a fun adventure.”
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