A training exercise for soldiers that consists of disarming a mine guided only by their sense of touch

Titolo: A training exercise for soldiers that consists of disarming a mine guided only by their sense of touch
Oggetto: en Technology; en Training
Article Title and/or Image Caption: "Mine reading"
extracted text: “MINE READING.” Disarming an Axis
land mine is a tricky business even in broad
daylight. Doing it in the black of night is
a heart-in-throat job that calls for the deft
touch of a steel-nerved pickpocket. To |
train their sappers in this hazardous work,
British forces in Italy have devised the
““Moascar stocks’—walls with burlap-shield-
ed holes through which men thrust their
arms and, guided only by their sense of
touch, practice taking enemy mines apart.
Instructors on the other side of the walls
are quick to point out any mistake, which in
combat might prove to be the sapper’s last.
Lingua: eng
Copertura temporale: World War II
Data di rilascio: 1944-04
pagine: 88
Diritti: Public Domain (Google digitized)
Sorgente: Google Books
Archived by: Lorenzo Chinellato; Marco Bortolami (editor)