The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society has said in a release that at about 4:30 a.m. on May 1, 1940, the Arlington started to sink and the chief engineer sounded the alarm. The crew abandoned the ship and were rescued by the Collingwood. But maintaining the shipping tradition, Captain Frederick "Tatey Bug" Burke went down with the ship.
As waves crested upwards of 20 feet, pelting California’s coast over the New Year’s weekend, a mysterious WWII-era bomb washed ashore in Santa Cruz. USA Today reported that around 2:20 pm on Sunday, the Santa Cruz Sheriff’s Office’s bomb team was called to the Pajaro Dunes, located between Santa .
Russian Emergencies Ministry specialists has lifted out of the water and destroyed in one day about 1,200 munitions of the Great Patriotic War (WWII) time in the Guilzovaya Bay, the Crimean Peninsula.
Huntsville’s Redstone Arsenal is getting new attention for an ongoing $1 billion cleanup of old and unexploded chemical and conventional munitions from burial sites on the base.