4% of Normandy beach sand is shrapnel

May 18, 2024
8:14:26am

Longseason Truly Addicted User

D-Day changed Omaha Beach’s sand in astonishing way, researchers found

A major indicator of the hard-fought battle that took place on Omaha Beach in June 1944 can be found in the sand itself.

https://www.localsyr.com/d-day-anniversary/d-day-changed-omaha-beachs-sand-in-astonishing-way-researchers-found/amp/

Report problem with this ad

Longseason

Previous username: panacablue
Bio page: Longseason
Joined: Jul 18, 2010
Last login: Jul 1, 2024
Total posts: 18,716 (60 FO)

Report problem with this ad

Messages

Author

Time

4% of Normandy beach sand is shrapnel

Longseason

May 18, 8:14am

That is crazy. The entire area is still full of shrapnel and debris

Carnac

May 18, 8:17am

My sister lives in Bitberg Germany and says they regularly have

The Pope

May 18, 8:20am

We found a guy in Okinawa who ran a company that looked for unexploded bombs

Ojiisan

May 18, 8:23am

The craziest example of this are the WWI battlefields in France

Carnac

May 18, 8:31am

Cambodia is kind of nuts in terms of how many people there have missing limbs.

Japan Coug

May 18, 9:34am

We still get them on my base in the US. I had to take an unexploded ordinance class to work in one on my remote

LaserCoug

May 18, 8:29am

When we lived in Germany, it seemed like every few months there was a road

Emmett Fitz-Hume

May 18, 10:07am

Probably bone too.

Mister P

May 18, 8:47am

Part of it contains what is left of my wife’s grandfather’s leg that was blown

King of Y

May 18, 9:29am

Hero.

Longseason

May 18, 9:41am

Report problem with this ad

Posting on CougarBoard

In order to post, you will need to either sign up or log in.

Report problem with this ad