Couldn't really find an apt thread so thought I'd start one in the 1940 section to do with Allied mines and their use. This is taken from a...
I'm surprised there is no general thread on this subject - That I could find. Anyway my question is: Was it common practise for Minefields to...
Hi, I wonder if you can help me? I have seen a photo of a sapper in the process of mine detecting with a very large amount of white tape on a...
It may be of interest to members of the forum to know that, during the battle of Britain, most of the runways at air bases were rigged with pipe...
For reference. Anyone got any pictures etc? Taken from I Corps Intel file WO 167/125: [IMG]
If anyone is interested? They can come along with me, as a small team of Sappers prepare to lift "S" Mines. Sapper
HMS Mirtle was a chalk quarry near Buriton in the South Downs where experiments and steaming out of explosives was done. There were two quarries...
Might I have, perchance, cracked this one? During the war, a 'Land Mine' was dropped on the south east corner of the Highbury Estate, Cosham. It...
Hello, By the end of the war, the German navy was using sea mines as anti-tank -anti everything really - in the roads. Does anyone know what...
Libya / Jeep blown up by Mine Got the information about this jeep from a colleague who was working in the country may years back - before GPS was...
What exactly were aerial mines, and when were they used on land? How did they differ from bombs? I have come across an Army man (VIIIth Hussars)...
Is that what is going on here? Attach some 3" rockets to a Churchill and see if it blows the mines out of the way? Or strap a big jet engine to a...
The veteran that took this photo said that the planes were used to explode German mines that had been parachuted into the Suez Canal. Can someone...
WW2 brought about a new phase in mine warfare. in two main areas anti-tank and anti-personal. The Germans through their long preparation for war,...
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