Vanes Spin Big Multiple Bomb Casting Out Incendiaries

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One of the most.destructive weapons introduced in the war of 1940 is the multiple incendiary bomb dumped over the wooden cities of Finland from Russian planes. The secret of its operation was learned when Finnish soldiers. captured an unexploded bomb. Seven and one-half feet long and two and one-half feet thick, it had projecting vanes which made it spin as it fell, and as it rotated sixty small incendiary bombs sprayed out in all directions, starting fires over a wide area.

Title (Dublin Core)
Vanes Spin Big Multiple Bomb Casting Out Incendiaries
Subject (Dublin Core)
en
en
Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
Vanes Spin Big Multiple Bomb Casting Out Incendiaries
Language (Dublin Core)
eng
Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core)
World War II
Date Issued (Dublin Core)
1940-07
Is Part Of (Dublin Core)
Popular Mechanics, v. 74, n. 1, 1940
pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
65
Rights (Dublin Core)
Public Domain (Google digitized)
Source (Dublin Core)
Google books
References (Dublin Core)
Finland
Russia
Archived by (Dublin Core)
Enrico Saonara
Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Spatial Coverage (Dublin Core)
Finland