Photo: Royal Thai Police
A long time ago, before our enlightened era of peace and plenty, humans used to kill each other by dropping giant metal eggs loaded with explosives.
As unlikely as it seems, a Skytrain construction crew appears to have unearthed one of these relics, an unexploded bomb likely dropped on Bangkok during World War II.
Police were called to a BTS Red Line construction site in the Bang Sue district after workers reported finding what looked like a giant bomb Saturday evening.
Bombs squad personnel were called in to examine the bomb, which was more than 30 centimeters wide and 1.2 meters long.
Interestingly enough, according to the very specific Wikipedia entry titled “Bombing of Bangkok in World War II,” the first ever combat mission for the Boeing B-29 Superfortress targeted the Bang Sue rail yards in 1944.
Apparently 98 of the 58th Air Division’s B-29s flew all the way from India only to find bad weather conditions made it terrible for hitting their targets. So they dropped a lot of bombs that reportedly landed everywhere but their intended targets.
“Only 77 of the B-29s made it to Bangkok, with 21 having had to return home because of various engine problems. Arriving at the Thai capital at about 11:00 am, the bombers found the target obscured by bad weather which in turn caused an element of confusion in the attack,” the entry reads. “The B-29s were meant to have dropped their bombs from between 22–25,000 feet altitude but instead did so from between 17–27,000 feet. Only 18 bombs hit their intended targets.”
Photo: United States Air Force
No one has identified what exactly the device found by workers is, but netizens are speculating about its resemblance to those bombs dropped during the second world war.
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