Looks like a pond on the site of the crater from the bomb (photo)
He appeared during the Second world war.
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On the outskirts of the Norwegian city of Tromso is a small and ordinary-looking pond. But he looks normal only those who do not know its history.
A bomb crater that has become a tidal pool. The crater is from one of the Tallboy bombs that was dropped on the WWII German battleship Tirpitz just outside Tromsø. Approximately 1000 people was killed during the attack. pic.twitter.com/AhosmZxtmw
— Stein Farstadvoll (@wasteunearthed) 20 Nov 2018.
During the Second world war to the shores of Norway approached the German battleship “Tirpitz”. In combat, he almost did not participate, but threatened the Arctic convoys to the Soviet Union and fettered power of the British Navy.
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To destroy “Tirpitz” was trying two and a half years. Finally, on 12 November 1944 after an air attack super-heavy bombs Tallboy “Tirpitz” was sunk docked in Tromso.
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During the air strikes killed about a thousand people. Parts of the battleship are still in military museums around the world. And in place of one of the explosive craters formed pond, to see which tourists come.
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