Portugal - Spain

Feb. 02, 1966 - The Village Where The H-Bomb Fell. Palomares, a village in Spain, hitherto so undistinguished that few gazetteers list it - has captured the world's headlines since an American B52 bomber crashed there, spilling its quartet of 10-megaton H-bombs, which fell out of the sky when the bomber collided with a tanker while refuelling overhead. Three bombs fell on land and one fell into the sea. After the bombs came their owners. American servicemen move into the village Geiger counters. Fifteen American warships and two submarines moved into the village fishing grounds. One of the bombs was buried in the garden of Miguel Bonillo, a peasant farmer who was tending his two-acres of tomato plots when it fell. Another was buried behind the church - a third in the hills near the village cemetery. A fourth - still not recovered - lay in the deep Mediterranean which laps the beach 800 yards from the village. The Americans have been at Palomares ever since, and may be there until April. Photo Shows:- They are the people who saw the H-bomb fall, and lived to talk about it. The people of the Spanish village of Palomares. Now they talks of nothing else, And when their vocabularies become inadequate they use their hands, like fishermen talking of their fish

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Bombs Buried Collided Counters Crashed Else Fifteen Geiger H-bomb H-bombs Hitherto Inadequate Laps Lived Miguel Moved Nothing Overhead Owners Palomares Plots Quartet Recovered Refuelling Servicemen Spilling Submarines Tanker Tending Tomato Undistinguished Warships Yards

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