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ALA SSIFIED INDEX in bomb blitz as IRA brings terror to market

... ALA SSIFIED INDEX in bomb blitz as IRA brings terror to market A.man aged 22 was heing quizzed by police last night after a ga.s-bottle bomb b'itz in the Somerset town of The Provisional IRA In fhiblin !aloe claimed responsibility for the attack% Market-day ...

Published: Saturday 24 February 1979
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 343 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BRIEFLY ... . I Airliner hijackers tried to set off petrol bombs

... BRIEFLY . I Airliner hijackers tried to set off petrol bombs THREE PEOPLE hijacked a Soviet airliner on a flight from Oslo to Moscow yesterday and tried to set off petrol bombs on board but were overpowered by guards and crew members. Police in Stockholm ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1979
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 431 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Sunday Mercury February 25 ‘Bombs factory’ had roof blown in which injured four' people in all The devices were of

... Sunday Mercury February 25 ‘Bombs factory’ had roof blown in which injured four' people in all The devices were of sort which could have been made by sehoolbof” he said Tenth Army bomb disposal experts detonated a tenth bomb in Yeovil yesterday Two of ...

Published: Sunday 25 February 1979
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 996 | Page: 53 | Tags: none

ISa t a n’s 60ft hell and an error MORE THAN 5000 high explosive bombs were dropped on Birmingham during

... (250Kg) the principal types of German bombs t f p e c series UXb'' how in unexpioded bomb which safely in s hoisted from the fuse up clock could still These cut in pocket straight out steamed explosive Mr bombs versa found hazardous work The wartime ...

Published: Monday 26 February 1979
Newspaper: Sandwell Evening Mail
County: West Midlands, England
Type: | Words: 315 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

UXBs— therealdrama

... years, 1973 and 1975 were literally boom years with 90 and 106 bomb calls respectively. Between 1940 and 1949, Royal Engineer bomb disposal “sappers’’ had 36,988 instances reported to them of bomb finds. Of these, they dealt with 24,326, A total of 15304 were ...

Published: Friday 23 February 1979
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 589 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Four bombers sent to jail

... of the bombing. Fox and Digney were given concurrent fiveyear sentences for belonging to the Provisional LR.A. Burke, Digney and Fox were given concurrent 12-year sentences for causing the three explosions at the hotel and possessing the bombs. Dornan ...

Published: Friday 23 February 1979
Newspaper: Ulster Star
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 382 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

a force

... a force 755 gun attacks and 455 bomb explosions last year. In 1972, when the IRA was undoubtedly at its strongest, there were more than 10,500 shootings and nearly 1,400 bomb attacks. Nearly 180 bombs, weighing a total of 5,859 lbs, were defused, and ...

Published: Thursday 22 February 1979
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 103 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

anti-personnel THE ARMY sergeant crawled foot at time across the field butterflies his end edged up the ..

... Butterflies safety at field was a wide the bombs” '-personnel Disposal war CLEM LEWIS 1000 kilogramme Hermann bomb “We believe outside the Hospital” his widow Lily Barton Yardlev recalls All types of bombs tell leave John field of butterfly the did not ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1979
Newspaper: Sandwell Evening Mail
County: West Midlands, England
Type: | Words: 285 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Police toquiz man hurt in blast Police were to-day wait- emergency operation last vas re-opened to the public ..

... midnight. bombings. seriously injured teenager has not yet been named , is However the South Woolworth's assistant expected to undergo Street car park where a manager, Mr. lan Maudsley. to question him about the another operation to-day. second bomb exploded ...

Published: Saturday 24 February 1979
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 275 | Page: 2 | Tags: none