Homemade tank bombs
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Homemade tank bombs
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Title: Homemade tank bombs
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ji Biv more than one way to
stop a tank, and one of the sim-
plest is the “Molotov cocktail”
which has been used successfully
on European battlefields. Lieut.
Col. William F. Heavey, U. S. Army
Corps of Engineers, writing in a
recent issue of the “Infantry Jour-
nal,” states that an efficient bomb
of this type can be made from an
ordinary quart bottle. This is filled
with a mixture, half gasoline and
half ofl or creosote, as gasoline
alone burns out too quickly. A
good-sized piece of cotton waste is
taped to the bottom of the bottle,
and an engineer's fuse lighter to
the side. In use, gasoline is poured
on the waste, the lighter is pulled
and the bomb is thrown. Because
these devices can be dangerous to
throwers as well as to targets, Col.
Heavey suggests that troops should
practice for a while with water-
filled bombs before using an explo-
sive mixture. A direct hit will usu-
ally create enough heat to force the
crew to abandon the tank in a
hurry.
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Language (Dublin Core)
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Eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1941-06
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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97
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Public domain
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Sami Akbiyik
Popular Science Monthly, v. 138, n. 6, 1941
