A live German sea mine from World War Two washed up on the Sussex coast has been towed out to sea and blown up. The large metal device measuring about 6ft (1.8m) and thought to weigh about 1,000kg ...
Officials said the ordnance was a German GD Magnetic influence mine. Magnetic mines lay on the bottom of the sea until triggered by the metal hull of a ship that passed above. A spokesman for the ...
The November moon—moon of the ancient Saxon “Blood Month”—swelled to full last week,* and with it grew the grimness of World War II at ... Germany was laying mines from the air in British ...