: A 550-pound (250 kg) German bomb was found at Aston Expressway, near Birmingham, and destroyed by British Army experts with a controlled explosion.

2 March 2017: A 500-pound (230 kg) German bomb was found and defused by a British Army disposal team in Brent, north-west London.

: 1,100 properties were advised to evacuate and three primary schools were closed after a 500-pound (230 kg) German bomb was found under a school playground in Bath, with the bomb being safely deactivated the following day.

11 August 2015: A 550-pound (250 kg) German bomb was found and defused by British Army experts in East London.

5 March 2010: A 100-pound (45 kg) unexploded German bomb was found in Southampton and was blown up in a controlled explosion by the Royal Navy.

1 October 1969: A German parachute mine was defused by a team led by Major George R.

February 2020: Hundreds of people were evacuated after construction workers discovered a World War II bomb in Maasmechelen, Limburg.

Buried bombs, as well as mortars, land mines and grenades, are often found during construction work or other excavations, or by farmers tilling the land. In Berlin alone, 1.8 million pieces of ordnance have been defused between 19. Every year, an estimated 2,000 tons of World War II munitions are found in Germany, at times requiring the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents from their homes. In 2018, the British Ministry of Defence reported that 450 World War II bombs were made safe or defused since 2010 by disposal teams. In the United Kingdom, the German Luftwaffe dropped more than 12,000 metric tons of bombs on London alone.

The Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces dropped 2.7 million tons of bombs on Europe during World War II. Technicians inspecting a British bomb unearthed in Koblenz, Germany in 2011

London city airport bomb