OT Gettysburg Buffs unexploded ordnance at Little round top…,

[s1uggo72]

Earlier today, an unexploded ordnance shell was found within the Little Round Top rehabilitation area. The 55th Ordnance Disposal Company EOD (explosive ordnance disposal) team from Fort Belvoir, VA (U.S. Army) safely removed the shell before it was destroyed off-site. The EOD team gently washed off the mud to allow park staff to photograph the shell.

And all closed roads have reopened.

 

[MacNit]

Earlier today, an unexploded ordnance shell was found within the Little Round Top rehabilitation area. The 55th Ordnance Disposal Company EOD (explosive ordnance disposal) team from Fort Belvoir, VA (U.S. Army) safely removed the shell before it was destroyed off-site. The EOD team gently washed off the mud to allow park staff to photograph the shell.

And all closed roads have reopened.

Fascinating…!

 

[razpsu]

Wow. So they dug it up during rehab. That is cool

 

[Tom_PSU]

I’m happy they did that safely. Just imagine the unease of plowing a field in Vietnam or the Middle East with perhaps hundreds or thousands of those still laying just under the soil.

 

[Metal Mike]

One of the worst places on Earth has to be France and the sites of the fighting in WW1 HE and mustard rounds are all over the place. Mustard is very stable and does not degrade over time.

 

[ChandlerPearce]

I love Gettysburg...should be on everyone's bucket list...the monuments are spectacular and the electric map is amazing.

 

[BobPSU92]

I saw “Gettysburg Buffs” and thought the thread was about something else.

”Unexploded”

”Little round top”

 

[JoeLion]

Makes you wonder about WWII and what still may be out there.

 

[TheBigUglies]

I love Gettysburg...should be on everyone's bucket list...the monuments are spectacular and the electric map is amazing.

Did this, Billy Yank Trail, Hike last spring. It takes you some places cars can't go. Fascinating walk across the battlefields and all around. The only other time I was at Gettysburg was for field trips and always felt like there was way more to see. When we approached Little Round Top it looked like there were descendants of the Mass Brigade having a service there(bunch of people and cars with Mass plates on their cars). Didn't want to interrupt and ask.

 

[bbrown]

Makes you wonder about WWII and what still may be out there.

PBS had a great series called Danger UXB about a team that diffused ordinance during the london blitz.

 

[Woodpecker]

So, 1 million visitors/year for at least 50 years and nobody came across this thing until now?

 

[s1uggo72]

So, 1 million visitors/year for at least 50 years and nobody came across this thing until now?

I think it was buried
But agree it’s not a great explanation

 

[ElJefe603]

Just imagine the unease of plowing a field in Vietnam or the Middle East with perhaps hundreds or thousands of those still laying just under the soil.

In my experience, which to this point has mainly been in the Horn of Africa, the locals have a decently good idea of what areas are UXO prone even if they're largely unmarked/unmapped.

Driving, however? Woof. That's already a unique experience in that part of the world and it's just part of the assumed risk that there may be UXOs where you're driving.

 

[WestSideLion]

Makes you wonder about WWII and what still may be out there.

There are YouTube channels that follow military artifact hunters who scour Eastern Europe for German and Russian WWII artifacts. There seems to be an incredible amount of stuff out there just waiting to be metal detected and excavated.