Poland Evacuates 750 People as WWII Tallboy Bomb Is Defused

Poland Evacuates 750 People as WWII Tallboy Bomb Is Defused
A large water fountain rises behind the Iron Bridge when a bomb from the Second World War in the Main River is detonated with a blast in Frankfurt, Germany, on April 14, 2019. Frank Rumpenhorst/dpa via AP
The Associated Press
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WARSAW, Poland—Hundreds of people in northwest Poland have been evacuated for a few days to allow Navy sappers to neutralize a British World War II giant Tallboy bomb resting under a waterway leading to the port of Szczecin.

The 5.4 ton bomb was found in Sept. 2019 during work to deepen the waterway. It’s located on the southern edge of a popular Baltic Sea resort of Swinoujscie, that, like Szczecin, was a busy Nazi Germany military port during the war.