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Originally Posted by 5./JG27.Farber
My farther, born in 1951 found a SD2 hanging in a tree near Sheffield... Derbyshire I think, proberbly near Dronfield, as they roamed quite far as kids in the woods... I will ask him about it but obviously this was well after the war...
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He said it was when he was 9 or 10 years old. Sheffield is built on 7 hills, so at the back of his row of terreced houses (in England terraced house where built around 1900 as a general rule) was a wall of about 8 feet, behind the wall was a big drop with a steep 30 degree slope. They would climb over the wall drop onto a ledge slide down the slope onto another ledge and drop off on some wooded waste ground. Nobody went there as the land was not used for anything and adults could not get, nor wanted to, go down there. Anyway there was a butterfly bomb hanging in a tree. So if this is 1961/2 in a city and there is a bomb hanging in a tree! I wonder when it was dropped? When did the LW stop bombing Northern cities? The longest it could of been there was 1940 so thats 20 years! He thinks it must have been defective and I would agree. Anyway some how (he forgets how) the police were informed and it was disposed of.
Anyway still looking through my manuals etc and I know ive seen a picture of the SD2 on both the 109 and 110 but need to find the proof to check the year.... This is annoying me now.