paul the grenade
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very interesting, how does it work?
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BOCN Guess what it is
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Greater minds than mine will no doubt expand on this Paul ( I borrowed the picture from a BOCN thread on incendiary destructors). I believe that it was designed to be used as a pull the pin and run device to destroy / damage a downed or abandoned plane. Possibly it had a shaped charge in the base? I am sure that someone has the answers. I just had the picture ( not for long thanks to Bonnex).
It was filled with 3/4 lb of lean Torpex on a minute's delay. The idea was to place it under a fuel tank so that it made a big hole and ignited the fuel and the fuel would spill on the ground under the aircraft and continue to burn thus cooking the airframe. Nothing fancy about the charge.
Allan,
I think that is close enough. It is a container to hold twelve frames of 35mm microfilm that could be secreted 'about the person' by a courier. The film was wrapped around an incendiary pellet in the container. The combustible container was in two parts that screwed together having loaded the film around the pellet. The pellet was initiated by a percussion cap fired by a spring loaded striker. If the courier was captured and the container discovered, unscrewing of the two halves would cause the striker to be released and the film would be consumed by the burning incendiary pellet and case.
Opening the container by cutting with a saw would allow the film to be retrieved unharmed. The device was designed late in the war by the SOE technical people to meet a specific requirement of the Danish Resistance.
Over to you.
I think that is close enough. It is a container to hold twelve frames of 35mm microfilm that could be secreted 'about the person' by a courier. The film was wrapped around an incendiary pellet in the container. The combustible container was in two parts that screwed together having loaded the film around the pellet. The pellet was initiated by a percussion cap fired by a spring loaded striker. If the courier was captured and the container discovered, unscrewing of the two halves would cause the striker to be released and the film would be consumed by the burning incendiary pellet and case.
Opening the container by cutting with a saw would allow the film to be retrieved unharmed. The device was designed late in the war by the SOE technical people to meet a specific requirement of the Danish Resistance.
Over to you.
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Tom,
It is actually a RS Container which I think stands for Rectal Safety Container but I hesitate to imagine how safe a cocked striker, percussion cap and several grams of incendiary mixture 'up one's bottom' is in reality. It makes the Saturday night Vindaloo sound rather tame.
It is actually a RS Container which I think stands for Rectal Safety Container but I hesitate to imagine how safe a cocked striker, percussion cap and several grams of incendiary mixture 'up one's bottom' is in reality. It makes the Saturday night Vindaloo sound rather tame.
I have absolutely no idea - but as this thread approaches its 1000th post I would like to thank Spotter for starting it and generally to thank him for all that he has done and continues to do to make BOCN the premier site of its kind. OK..back to the guessing game.
