In a local paper there is an article about a woman pulling a kettle shaped bomb out of the brook, the bomb disposal squad confirmed it was a bomb and blew it up, i can only think it was jettisoned from an aircraft in WW2. So does any one know of a kettle shaped bomb?
Where in the world did this occur ? It would help to identify who dropped the thing. Maybe the impact of hitting the ground distorted the shape of it so that it resembled a kettle.
This was in the UK, the nearest (target) for a WW2 bomb is 8 miles away and that of little importance, i am told that several bombs were jettisoned into the cement quarry 2 miles from this find.
That's the trouble with newspapers - half the information. It could have been a home-made device. WWII aerial bomb in the shape of a kettle? No. Impact-deformed aerial bomb, taking on a kettle shape? No. Most were cast bodies and the casting would shatter rather than deform.
Big kettle.Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! And the dam buster bombs were cylindrical.
Wonder how big it actually was. I presumed "kettle" meant something like a cooking pot. Here's a manner of incendiary bomb with cylindrical submunitions- (a "kettle" ?) http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/ab70-1.html Casing designed to open to allow them to fall out.
It could not have been very heavy, as the article said the lady pulled it out of the brook, the article all so said that the explosion could be heard for miles around.
Here's a wee one... dimensions remind me of a soup can or small vegetable can. http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/sd2.htm Still almost half a pound of TNT inside, though.
Not much like a kettle shape, but with some distortion who knows, i would guess that no specialised bombs would be used for general destruction, the main targets near to me would be Coventry, Birmingham, both about 20 miles away, Coventry was heavily bombed.
