May 7, 2022
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A bomb washes ashore in Florida
St. Pete Beach, Florida – A person walking along the surf on St Pete Beach saw a cylindrical object lying on the shoreline on Sunday. It was metallic, with barnacles growing on it, and had a cone-shaped cap on the end. It looked like the kind of bomb a plane might have dropped, but appeared to have been in the water for some time.
Beachgoers stuck behind the 300 foot perimeter watch the crews work on the bomb – photo credit: Dirk Shadd, Tampa Bay Times
The beach and homeowners close by were evacuated until the bomb squad from Hillsborough County could be brought in to take care of the issue. The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office set up a 300 foot perimeter around the object.
Not an ordinary bomb
The Hillsborough County bomb squad saw that it was military ordnance, and called MacDill Air Force Base Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team for assistance.
The officials at MacDill identified the object as a photoflash bomb. It was approximately 4 feet long.
Crews detonated the bomb at 5 pm on Sunday. It is unknown how the bomb got in the water.
The photoflash bomb was detonated at 5 pm on Sunday – photo credit Dirk Shadd, Tampa Bay Times
The photoflash bomb
It turns out the bomb could have been exceedingly dangerous to handle. A photoflash bomb was issued without a fuze, but the charge was “extremely sensitive to friction, shock and temperature.”
The bombs were developed for use by reconnaissance planes that needed to take pictures of targets at night…especially if they couldn’t get close enough to get a good photo. The brilliance of the flash illuminated the target so that planes would not be as vulnerable to enemy anti-aircraft fire.
According to the Harrington Museum, the light from the flash would have been “detrimental” to anyone looking directly at it.
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