This could have been a shocking discovery.
Construction workers at a housing development in Colorado stumbled upon a piece of American history on Monday: a World War II-era bomb.
The cast-iron “military style weapon” was discovered buried in Aurora at the former Raleigh Bombing and Shooting Range, the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office said. I said this week.
An explosives disposal team was called in to examine the remains, but X-rays revealed that the small bombs posed no danger nearly a century after they were dumped into the ground.
The bomb was identified as a Mark 23 Mod 1, one of three small bombs used for bomb training during World War II.
The three-pound bomb was used primarily against land targets, but could not be used against targets with armored decks.
While construction crews work on the housing development, experts continue to remove munitions from the former Lowry Bombing Range site. According to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment:.
The site, which covers about 100 square miles, was used as a bomb training and military weapons base by the Air Force, Army, Navy and Air National Guard from 1938 to 1963, through the Korean and Vietnam wars.
The small bomb discovered this week is now owned by the Buckley Space Force Base.
