Italy Defuses B-17 Bomb
Associated Press
LATISANA, Italy —
Authorities evacuated about 16,000 residents of two towns in northeastern Italy for several hours Tuesday as experts safely defused a bomb weighing nearly 10 tons that had been dropped by a U.S. B-17 bomber during World War II.
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