Sunday, February 6, 2011

Thousands Evacuated From Paris Homes as WWII Bomb Defused

Old school Big Boomers still being found.


Foxnews
PARIS -- An unexploded World War II bomb led to 6,000 people being evacuated from their homes in a Paris suburb Sunday.

Bomb disposal experts were working to make the massive 500 pound bomb safe after it was discovered Jan. 27 on the site of a former car factory,

The bomb was first discovered on a building site where a Renault car factory used to be.

The factory was bombed repeatedly in 1942 and 1943 by Allied aircraft, as the site was producing car engines under control of the occupying Germans



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