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Jam Tin Bomb

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dano1917

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"Take a jam-pot (in fact a tin), fill it with shredded gin cotton and ten penny nails, mixed according to taste. Insert a No.8 detonator and a short length of Bickford's Fuse. Clamp up the lid. Light with a match, pipe, cigar or cigarette and throw for all you are worth".

From: Eye Deep In Hell Trench Warfare In World War I
By: John Ellis
 
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