Big russian bomb holds sixty little ones
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Big russian bomb holds sixty little ones
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Big russian bomb holds sixty little ones
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WHIRLING down from the |
sky, a gigantic aerial bomb
employed by Russian air-
craft breaks open before it
strikes the ground, to release
and spread a deadly cargo of
small incendiary bombs over
a wide area. Nicknamed
“Molotov's bread basket,”
after Viacheslay M. Molotov,
Russian Commissar for For-
eign Affairs, the mammoth
bomb is seven and a half feet
long and over two feet in di-
ameter. Vanes at its tail
cause it to whirl when re-
leased from the rack of a
bombing plane. This action
ultimately opens the steel
sides, allowing sixty small in-
cendiary bombs within it to
hurtle outward in all direc-
tions and plummet earthward
to set fire to any inflammable
object on the ground within a
broad circle. First used in ac-
tual warfare against Finland,
the bomb was employed to set
fire to towns whose houses
were constructed of wood.
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eng
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1940-07
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86
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Public domain
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Sami Akbiyik
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
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Spatial Coverage (Dublin Core)
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Russia
Popular Science Monthly, v. 137, n. 1, 1940
