2004 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 8 Nov 2004 16:16:02 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Vietnam disposes biggest bomb
 
Vietnam disposes biggest bomb ever found in Indochina 

Xinhua (China)
November 8, 2004


HANOI, Nov. 8 (Xinhuanet) -- Vietnam has succeeded in disposing a bomb
weighing 5.5 tons, the biggest bomb found in Indochina, local media
reported Monday. 

Six local army engineers Sunday t ook 3.5 tons of explosive out of the
bomb dropped by the US army in the central highlands province of Gia Lai
in the Vietnam War. Earlier, they had to dig hundreds of cubic meters of
soil and rock. 

...

For the entire article, see
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/08/content_2190739.htm

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