Comment by smackeyacky
17 hours ago
It’s worth tracking down a UK miniseries called “Danger UXB” that was made in the early eighties. Not sure how accurate the actual on screen dry ice and cut the red wire stuff was but as a character study of the men involved and the danger they were constantly in it was compelling viewing. Heartbreaking too. One of my favourite TV shows
While searching for that I discovered "U.X.B." a 1942 UK bomb disposal training film that is surprisingly thorough in description of the types of German bombs, fuses, and how to report UXBs (during WW2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhpmXeCp6sc
Not directly bomb related but another good UK series from the 80s that gives a good impression of how so many bombs ended up undiscovered is "The Machine Gunners".
My parents were around the age of the children in the series during WW II in Germany and what they recounted matched how the children experienced the time pretty well.
That was one of my favourite TV series as a kid.
It was still in fresh memory for a lot of people, broadcast 25 years after the end of WW2, I think it got the feeling over very well.
James May did a bit about it in one of his shows https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnQ_pS4T0vI
Oh how i would love a modern incarnation of man lab! Such a good show!
Also "Blitz Street" with Tony Robinson, where they build a street of typical 1940s houses and slowly increase the WW2 bomb size to see the damage the would do.
Whoh 1979! Downloading now, thanks for the rec
Downloading from where?
https://archive.org/details/danger-uxb-1979
A very worthwhile watch. I come back to it every few years.