More than eighty years after the war, the coasts of the United Kingdom still have countless intact devices, and with each storm, erosion is brought to light, sometimes in the footsteps of a passerby. On a beach in the Thames estuary, one of these unexploded ordnance has just been destroyed on site.
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More than eighty years after the war, the coasts of the United Kingdom still have countless intact devices, and with each storm, erosion is brought to light, sometimes in the footsteps of a passerby. On a beach in the Thames estuary, one of these unexploded ordnance has just been destroyed on site.