Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "Imperial War Museums" channel.

Odd that I never heard of that capacitor fragment until today, as I tend to track such things. Thanks for that information! The more conventional bombs of WWII are still killing people on occasion today, either construction crews or if the infernal thing didn't blow, responding EOD teams. And even today, farmers pile up unexploded WWI shells for collection by EOD teams.
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@recoil53 some of the Apollo 13 crew and support team are still around, you can mention that to them. Still, it wasn't a replication of Soyuz 1. We got back a living crew, the Soviets got back charcoal.
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And even today, both Germans and British EOD technicians get calls to disarm bombs unearthed by construction crews. Far too frequently, unsuccessfully, killing the EOD team.
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@dafyddllewellyn6636 not really, the Lancaster was more accurate, as it was piloted and guided toward the target. The V2 had a crude INS guidance, which was largely dead reckoning, with only a gyrocompass for guidance, so could be miles off in its CEP. Of course, the Nagasaki device detonated 3 miles off target as well, thanks to the Norden bombsight.
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@jeffkardosjr.3825 well, we can thank the super accurate Norden bombsight for that, which missed the target in Nagasaki by 3 miles (yeah, I'm serious). Typical (in)accuracy was around a quarter mile of target, with in one attack using over 1000 bombs, only one bomb landed on the grounds of a German chemical plant. The entire super-secrecy of the sight being exclusively created as part of sales propaganda by the sight's manufacturer. Nearly as laughable as carrots for good night vision, which was actually initially a joke told to a German spy, who had asked how British fighters were able to find German bombers so accurately and quickly at night and the British weren't going to admit to major advances in radar. That myth still is repeated today, but then the super accurate Norden myth is nearly equally repeated today.
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@freeculture Soyuz I, far more impressive. It actually made its flight before incinerating its occupant. The parachute got stuck, due to paint and the capsule hit the ground at 300 mph and burned the capsule and cosmonaut into oblivion. The cosmonaut had put in his will that the generals that ordered the unready flight to launch had to be photographed with his remains and they actually did do so, photographed with a charcoal mass that didn't at all look like it was once a human. Good for him! Pity that they launched the damned thing though. Soyuz 11, valve dislodged, venting the atmosphere into space, killing all 3 crew. The valve, right under a cosmonaut's seat, where it couldn't be reached in time. Still, we're ahead in fatalities, courtesy of the space shuttle. Because, complacency kills.
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@zoiders I was speaking of both the UK and Germany, the last I recall was in Munich in 2021, injuring 4, a few years previously, techs were killed when a 2000 pound bomb detonated. Around every 5 years a team gets one that goes off in their face. Other than boobytrapped bombs, corrosion and chemical instability from all that time underground can make the bomb extremely unstable. In some cases, the bomb is too badly damaged to defuse and the bomb has to be detonated in place, which is labor intensive as hell, as one has to make trenches to protect nearby buried utilities and building foundations. Can't remember the UK organization, but Germany has teams by state. Of course, Germany was the only nation bombing the UK, a whole lot of folks were angry at Germany during WWII. Then, there are French farmers fields, where frost pushes up old WWI UXO's, farmers literally stack them at collection points, where they're collected, trucked off and destroyed.
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@Guido_XL you do realize by definition, a reprisal occurs after something objected to has occurred? Do you now choose an odd stance that there's some magical timer that expires, after which a reprisal for deaths is invalid? That murder now has a statute of limitations during war? If one is unable to muster the reprisal within a short time frame, it's forever gone? By that principle, we'd have to release imprisoned Nazis and murderers from prison and forbid their being charged with a crime forever! Then, war criminals can simply plan in advance to erode the allowable time frame until the war crime remains a crime, just nothing that anyone can do anything about. If that's the case, I want to lay on a supply of high explosive, poisoned bullets and delay proceedings until your magical time limit has ended. I'm sure that the Waffen SS wishes that were so - oh wait, many of those were executed in reprisals for murderering Allied POWs on capture.
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