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Originally Posted by Anthony
Eh, you have to look at it in perspective. That's big... for artillery. But this is WWII, and there's bombers out there. A Tallboy was 5,400 kg -- of which 2,400 kg was explosives.
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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin
Yes, a Tallboy went 70 feet into normal earth and made a hole 70 feet deep and a hundred feet wide. It also pierced 16 feet of reinforced concrete. You might think you were safe if your ceiling were 20 feet of reinfoced cocnrete but the Tallboy would collapse those after it exploded.
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Speaking of Tallboy bombs. One was found recently in Poland,
and this happened (link to YouTube)