The recent 7:10 to Tokyo article, Unexploded WWII Bombs In Japan- How Many Are Out There?, provoked some interesting responses but it came as a bit of a surprise to hear from someone who was actually on the ground in Japan disposing of these remnants from WWII.  Roy Kasier took an interest this article and provided a lot of food for thought in his well-researched comments. Roy had a fifteen year career in Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) for the US Army and spent three of those years (1967-1970) at Ikego Army Ammunition …

On March 27th an unexploded bomb was found in the Tokyo suburb of Chofu by construction crews.  It is suspected that the B-29 bomber carrying the ordinance collided with a Japanese Hien fighter plane on April 7, 1945 before it had an opportunity to deliver it’s payload.  A 63 year old resident of the area was a junior high school student at that time and sketched the crash in his diary and returned the following day to sketch what remained of the B-29 bomber.  Researchers compared the sketch with the …