Bomb found when tank is removed
Written by Angela Gooch on March 30th, 2008 in War and Military.
As the result of a request made by the Skegness Council to the War Office, a Territorial Army and visited Skegness and removed the remains of the battered Mark I Cromwell Tank from the Gibraltar Point bird observatory. The tank had to be dragged from where it, rested, partly sunken in the soft, sandy turf, by a bulldozer.
The removal of the Cromwell, which has been the plaything of many local children, disclosed a live P.I.A.T. bomb and an unexploded mine detonator, and during the operations one of the caterpillars of the bulldozer Passed within three inches of the bomb before its presence was discovered The tank was hauled on to a 4o-ton, 12-wheel transporter.
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