POLAND-GERMANY-BRITAIN-HISTORY-WWII-BOMB-TALLBOY

Halina Paszkowska, resident of the island of Karsibor, part of the city of Swinoujscie, poses in front her house on October 9, 2020, a few days before Polish divers will defuse a Second World War 'Tallboy' bomb discovered in the Piast Canal. - Polish military divers are due to begin a delicate operation on October 12, 2020 to defuse one of World War II's most powerful types of bombs at the bottom of a navigation channel to the Baltic Sea. The five-tonne device -- nicknamed "Tallboy" and also known as an "earthquake bomb" -- was dropped by the Royal Air Force in a raid on a German cruiser in what was then Nazi Germany. (Photo by Lukasz Szelemej / AFP) (Photo by LUKASZ SZELEMEJ/AFP via Getty Images)