I remember watching this series on PBS when I was a kid. My one thought: I am so glad I wasn't born in 1920... or thereabouts...

I have an observation about bomb disposal both back then and today: If you know the property is already destroyed, pretty much, or there are no lives around that need to be saved by disarming the bomb... then why do it? Just blow the thing up!

If anyone reading this from, say, I dunno, Afghanistan or Iraq, and who is involved in ordnance disposal, please comment. I'd like to know.