Hello,
This is my first time here and I'd like some help uncover a tragic event that happened in 1945.
Boys found a 'blind' 2" mortar on a mountain training area, took it home and tampered with it the following day killing 3 boys aged between 14 and 6. I read the coroner's inquiry in the local press archive and a lucky witness testified: Heasked me to hold the bomb while he screwed off the fin. Ted then knocked offthe cap and pulled out a screw with a pliers and a spring came out. Then he puta screwdriver in a hole in the bomb and white powder came out. The boy's mother called him in for tea and that's when the bomb exploded as he sat down at the table. Could anyone guess which of the 2 springs this is likely to be: the detent or the detonator and if the 'white powder' was the pentolite or the TNT.
I'd appreciate any information surrounding this and thank you in advance.
Kind regards,
Rondee.
This is my first time here and I'd like some help uncover a tragic event that happened in 1945.
Boys found a 'blind' 2" mortar on a mountain training area, took it home and tampered with it the following day killing 3 boys aged between 14 and 6. I read the coroner's inquiry in the local press archive and a lucky witness testified: Heasked me to hold the bomb while he screwed off the fin. Ted then knocked offthe cap and pulled out a screw with a pliers and a spring came out. Then he puta screwdriver in a hole in the bomb and white powder came out. The boy's mother called him in for tea and that's when the bomb exploded as he sat down at the table. Could anyone guess which of the 2 springs this is likely to be: the detent or the detonator and if the 'white powder' was the pentolite or the TNT.
I'd appreciate any information surrounding this and thank you in advance.
Kind regards,
Rondee.
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