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MiloMorai
06-23-2013, 10:39 AM
Remembering the terror the Luftwaffe's butterfly bombs brought to the North.
In the summer of 1943, scores in Grimsby and Cleethorpes were killed by the German SD2, or butterfly bomb. Seventy years on, James Rogers sheds some light on one of WWII's lesser-known chapters.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2013/jun/21/butterfly-bombs-luftwaffe-cleethorpes-grimsby
Wolf_Rider
06-23-2013, 02:59 PM
http://www.lonesentry.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/sprengbombe-dickwandig-2kg-sd2.jpg
nasty...
Feathered_IV
06-24-2013, 08:02 AM
Nasty indeed. Is it true they were painted in bright colours, or is that a myth?
swiss
06-24-2013, 03:13 PM
Butterfly bombs were usually painted dark green. A dull yellow colour scheme was sometimes used, either for use in the middle east, or when dropped on grain crops at harvest time to kill farm-workers.
s: inet
raaaid
06-24-2013, 09:11 PM
that should lead me into my vocation:
its scarry how science people use their minds as opposed to artists
yeah hitler was a painter but he quit
who knows what life would be now had he been accepted in the art academy
major_setback
06-26-2013, 08:55 PM
that should lead me into my vocation:
its scarry how science people use their minds as opposed to artists
yeah hitler was a painter but he quit
who knows what life would be now had he been accepted in the art academy
Good point.
Have you been accepted, by the way?
:-)
MB_Avro_UK
06-26-2013, 10:24 PM
Did the allies use Butterfly bombs? And if not, why not?
Best Regards,
MB_Avro.
swiss
06-27-2013, 10:35 AM
Did the allies use Butterfly bombs? And if not, why not?
Best Regards,
MB_Avro.
They preferred Nukes. :)
On a serious note: "The United States manufactured a copy of the SD2 for use during World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam War, designating it the M83 submunition.[6] The 4-pound (1.8 kg) fragmentation bomblet was used in the US M28 and M29 cluster bombs." wiki
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