Nice one, I wish my dad was still around, being a St Eval RAF wartime postee, he would have been amused by this.
One thing I do not recall seeing mentioned is that quite a few station personnel were killed by the Luftwaffe during raids at St Eval and so fortunately this is one bomb that thankfully did not claim even more.
A few of the victims are laid to rest in the peaceful St Eval church, as were I understand some Luftwaffe aircrew who were later re-interred elsewhere at a later date?
One thing that is puzzling me though. I was always under the impression that if a bomb was discovered at sea, the Royal Navy disposed of it, If a bomb was discovered on land, like this one was, then the Army disposed of it, but if it was ordnance discovered in an aircrafy wreck on land the the RAF disposed of it?
If this is true, then how come the navy disposed of this one and not the army, or did pure location and logistics apply in this case?
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