They are warning local beachcombers to collect amber in tins, saying pieces of phosphorus dropped in incendiary bombs by the Allies in World War Two still wash up. White phosphorus burns at 1,300 ...
Can you imagine an 1,100-pound unexploded bomb being unearthed by construction crews breaking ground on a Manhattan ...
The scattering of phosphorus fire bombs over cities in World War II caused widespread death and destruction. In July 1943, Hamburg was subject to several air raids in which 25,000 phosphorus bombs ...