Preventing Old Bombs From Claiming New Victirms
How Air Force Database Is Preventing Its Old Bombs From Claiming New Victims -- Christian Science Monitor
The US military estimates that an Air Force lieutenant colonel is saving hundreds of lives a year through a new database he is creating of past bombing campaigns. He's also challenging the history books.
The work of one amateur historian in the US Air Force is quietly upending the conventional wisdom and history of America’s wars.
It is also helping to map the unexploded bombs of America’s air campaigns across Europe and Southeast Asia, saving hundreds of lives each year, by US military estimates.
It has the weighty warrior acronym of the old Nordic god of thunder: THOR, the Theater History of Operations Report, which is fast becoming a critical tool for Air Force officials.
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My Comment: That's a lot of bombs to map and find.
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