http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SCARCE-BA...940-WW2-/301708117443?&_trksid=p2056016.l4276
Didn't know these were dropped on London!
Didn't know these were dropped on London!
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- Thread starter hangarman
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I think it's just a story like the price.... Dave
The Blitz in London may be a little early for the AB-500 (to my understanding the B-1 incendiaries were still dropped by then by He111 using BSK-36 containers) but the city of Bristol was bombed in 1944 by Ju88s using ABB-500 containers with ten single candle flares or 140 x 1kg B1 incendiary bombs each. AB-500-1 (containing 393 earlier, shorter, B1 incendiaries) were also used over England.
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AB-500 with incendiaries (A - 184 incendiaries B1, B - 116 incendiaries B2)
And the Abwurfbehälter für Brandbomben ABB-500:
http://www.skbgmbh.de/kdm_monate/2013/13_08.pdf
And the Abwurfbehälter für Brandbomben ABB-500:
http://www.skbgmbh.de/kdm_monate/2013/13_08.pdf
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Mickey Mouse story hacked together for the listing.
The AB500 container was not dropped on Britain until summer 1942.
It was not parachute-retarded. That looks like part of the parachute from a parachute mine or flare that he has put with the other item, 2+2=5.
He also doesn't know much about pricing!
The AB500 container was not dropped on Britain until summer 1942.
It was not parachute-retarded. That looks like part of the parachute from a parachute mine or flare that he has put with the other item, 2+2=5.
He also doesn't know much about pricing!
The Luftwaffe used various types of containers to carry and drop small incendiary bombs (B1 and B2 types) and in the early part of the war these were usually the BSK-36 (BombenSchaltKasten), holding some 36 B1 El's. During early 1942 the AB 500 container, which held 140 B1 El's was brought into us; more effective than the older BSK 36, the new container held not only more incendiaries but concentrated its entire contents over a small area. The final development was introduced in 1944 during which the bombers with the AB 1000, capable of holding up to 620 B1 El's or 360 B2 E's.