A team of intrepid divers who recovered two “lost” World War Two practice bombs from the bottom of a lake visited the Hertfordshire museum where one of them is now on display.
Members of the East Cheshire branch of the British Sub-Aqua Club (BSAC) saw at the de Havilland Aircraft Museum the ‘bouncing bomb’ they had recovered from the depths of a Scottish loch.
In 2017, the divers carried out a remarkable recovery operation to retrieve the perfectly preserved inert Highball bomb which had lain on the bed of Loch Striven for more than 70 years.
The RAF had used the loch as a bombing range in the 1940s to test Barnes Wallis’ Highball bomb.
“The museum has done a wonderful job of preserving the bomb and stopping it corroding,” said Kevin Phillips, who had been diving officer for the 11-strong team of scuba divers.
“It doesn’t look like the bomb we got out of the loch. It is looking remarkably pristine now.”
The dive team members were welcomed by the London Colney museum’s chairman, Alan Brackley, and presentations on the preservation work and the bomb were given by Martin Bull and Bob Glasby, both museum volunteers.
Source: https://www.hertsad.co.uk/things-to-do/highball-bouncing-bomb-de-havilland-aircraft-museum-8449630
