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06-23-2013, 09:39 AM
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June 14 1943
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-nor...horpes-grimsby 
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06-23-2013, 01:59 PM
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 nasty...
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06-24-2013, 07:02 AM
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Nasty indeed. Is it true they were painted in bright colours, or is that a myth?
Last edited by Feathered_IV; 06-24-2013 at 07:25 AM.
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06-24-2013, 02:13 PM
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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
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06-24-2013, 08:11 PM
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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
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06-26-2013, 07:55 PM
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06-26-2013, 09:24 PM
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Did the allies use Butterfly bombs? And if not, why not?
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06-27-2013, 09:35 AM
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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 Last edited by swiss; 06-27-2013 at 09:38 AM.
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