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Old 16th June 2007 | 23:44
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Hempy
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From: ɐıןɐɹʇsn∀
Originally Posted by Green Flash
Didn't I read somewhere that the Grand Slam on display at the main gate was found to be live! It was eventually moved/defused/blown up at the Wash, or something???

apparently true. Exhaustive investigations then took place, but nobody could find the long-gone 1944, 1945 or 1946 records which might have shown how a live 22,000 lb bomb became a gate guard for nearly the next decade and a half
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