Research for a possible book project has brought up a question which I'm hoping someone here might answer.
After the war ended, at least one squadron spent time dropping surplus bombs into the sea.
Would those bombs have been dropped live, to explode on contact? Or, would they have been dropped say, with holes in their casings to allow the water to enter and render them inert? Indeed, would it have just been the filling that was being dropped, as I wonder if the metal of the casing might have been useful. Swords into ploughshares as it were.
Google isn't my friend in this case, it seems to latch onto the work of the bomb disposal branches.
Hopefully someone here might know. However, a trip to national archives is coming up, which may shed light.
Now, back to puzzling over the excellent "what cockpit" thread!