Hi Genghis, you might like to follow up on the career of Jack Howard 20th Earl of Suffolk who ran an experimental bomb disposal outfit, his last words whilst dismantling a German 500kg bomb were, 'oh bugger this ones got a third f.......
He seems to have been a bit of a legend having spirited 86kg of heavy water out of France in 1940 with 27 scientific staff and the whole French nuclear research archive arriving in Falmouth on 26th June.