24/07/2022 Stati Uniti, Florida, Leon, Tallahassee
“If you ever come across anything suspicious like this item, please do not pick it up, contact your local law enforcement agency for assistance”
Wednesday’s bomb scare is not the first time police have gotten a call like this in that area. In November of 2016, military explosives experts were called in to detonate a World War II bomb. Construction workers found it entangled in the roots of a tree. Members of the Air Force dug a 14 foot hole to bury the bomb and covered it with sandbags before detonating it. Now, the reason law enforcement was so cautious is because of the history of the area. Tallahassee used to be the home of the Dale Mabry Army Airfield where several planes loaded with bombs would take off. The big bend area is known to be full of history, but one of it’s best kept secrets may be an army airfield located right here in Tallahassee. ”We had a major fighter training base here in Tallahassee called the Dale Mabry Army Airfield and it’s location was basically where Tallahassee Community College is today. Appleyard drive was the north-south runaway,” shared Dale Mabry Army Airfield Museum CEO Chuck Wells. Wells says the airfield was bigger than FSU’s footprint today, with historic duplexes on FSU’s campus that housed officers. ”There were 77 units here and what was known as Mabry heights. Obviously Mabry, because of Mabry army airfield in heights because of being on one of Tallahassee’s seven hills,” Wells broke down. The airfield trained between six to eight thousand fighter pilots during World War II, who took part in more than eighty thousand flights. So when bomb scare incidents like Wednesday’s occur, it doesn’t surprise Wells. ”I mean I’m surprised it’s been five years since the last one was discovered. I drive down Gaines Street all the time and I think to myself, I see all this construction going on over here and I wonder what they are going to find. And I hold my breath because I wouldn’t want anybody to get hurt,” exclaimed Wells. Luckily Wednesday’s device was not a bomb, but if it was, wells says it would have been live just like the one in 2016.
Source: wctv.tv
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