Technicians inspecting a British bomb unearthed in Koblenz, Germany in 2011
The Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces dropped 2.7 million tonnes of bombs on Europe during World War II.[1] In the United Kingdom, the German Luftwaffe dropped more than 12,000 tonnes of bombs on London alone.[2] In 2018, the British Ministry of Defence reported that 450 World War II bombs were made safe or defused since 2010 by disposal teams.[3] Every year, an estimated 2,000 tons of World War II munitions are found in Germany, at times requiring the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents from their homes.[1] In Berlin alone, 1.8 million pieces of ordnance have been defused between 1947 and 2018.[4] Buried bombs, as well as mortars, land mines and grenades, are often found during construction work or other excavations, or by farmers tilling the land.[5]
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