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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
The Mark 6 nuclear bomb dropped to the bomb bay doors of the B-47 and the weight forced the doors open, sending the bomb 15,000 ft down to the ground below.
Two sisters, six-year-old Helen and nine-year-old Frances Gregg, along with their nine-year-old cousin Ella Davies, were playing 200 yards from a playhouse in the woods that had been built for them by their father Walter Gregg, who had served as a paratrooper during World War II. The playhouse was struck by the bomb. Its conventional high explosives detonated, destroying the playhouse, and leaving a crater about 70 feet wide and 35 feet deep.
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Do you know where the impact occurred? Only clues: the flight originated near Savannah, it was headed to the UK, and there are pine trees in the photo. I grew up in SC and I vaguely remember hearing something about something like this happening near Florence, SC.
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https://www.hngn.com/articles/238230/20211005/air-force-bomber-accidentally-dropped-atomic-bomb-south-carolina-home.htm
They left the crater and now it's a tourist attraction.
