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| Exploding chocolate bars, and other WW2 boobytraps | |
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| CJ | Oct 1 2015, 12:11 AM Post #1 |
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A very minor case of serious brain damage
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34396939 Drawings of wartime boobytrap bombs, including an exploding chocolate bar and devices intended to sink ships, have been rediscovered after 70 years. The drawings were made by a young artist called Laurence Fish for MI5's counter-sabotage unit. There is an incendiary bomb designed as a Thermos flask, an army mess tin with a bomb hidden beneath the bangers and mash, and a high-explosive device concealed in a can of motor oil. There is a magnetic limpet mine for a ship's hull which explodes when detached. And there are timing devices ranging from the highly complex to the remarkably simple - like a test tube full of dried peas which expand as they absorb water and push two contacts together. All were unpleasant weapons dreamt up by German sabotage experts to spread havoc among their British enemies. There are some interesting ones here - and these are only the ones that MI5 found out about! It makes me wonder what other unknown ones there might have been (probably because they were planned and never used )
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| GrieferLord | Oct 1 2015, 12:21 AM Post #2 |
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Tank Sniper
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or could have been used and mis-identified that can also happen but it's interesting they found all that out. |
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| CJ | Oct 1 2015, 07:01 AM Post #3 |
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A very minor case of serious brain damage
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Well, I would expect that most of these were identified due to their successful use on people . But, I could be wrong - and if I am, then I'm pretty impressed with MI5 .
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