Looking for more I strolled onto a more complete version of the article:
Fang Pullers - TIME
I liked this on a large bomb threatening St. Pauls; Stirring stuff!
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Day & night, for 96 tense hours, Lieut. Davies and his squad burrowed. No excitement of active combat, no military ends, no instinct to destroy the enemy urged them as they grubbed 27 feet into the wet, sandy soil. They were in constant expectation of a blinding, icy flash of death. As they dug, a gas main caught fire and began to broil the bomb. Twice on the way up the bomb slipped its tackles and fell to the bottom of the hole.
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Having pottered around various Leicestershire cemeteries looking for the graves of some of these chaps, and having the backgrounds to their deaths explained by the person who needed the pictures, I'll
never fail to be impressed/amazed at the stone-cold selfless bravery of anyone who climbs into a hole with a non-metaphorical 'ticking bomb'.