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Navy locates bombs ditched over Barrier Reef by US fighter jets
Herald Sun
16 August 2013
THE navy has successfully located four unexploded bombs on the Great Barrier Reef, exactly one month after they were dropped by US fighter jets.
The Defence Force said the bombs - two inert and two high-explosive, but unarmed - had been found in conjunction with the US Navy by the RAN minehunter HMAS Gascoyne. Read more
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