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10-12-2007, 10:29 PM
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You're Top Poster: #31  | Kamikaze Pole Mines? Was there Kamikaze soldiers who carried sticks with explosives mounted at the end and charged into US tanks/Vehicles? Just asking here as i remember playing the videogame 'Medal of Honor Rising Sun' some years ago. |
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10-12-2007, 11:51 PM
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You're Top Poster: #3  | They sure did and quite a bit more. Read all about the Lunge Mine etc here: Lone Sentry: New Weapons for Jap Tank Hunters (U.S. WWII Intelligence Bulletin, March 1945) Also: Viet Minh "death volunteers" fought against the French colonial army by using a long stick-like explosive to detonate French tanks, as part of their urban warfare tactics which would have been a direct result of the above.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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04-01-2008, 08:11 PM
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You're Top Poster: #22  | Hi. From the US TM 9-1985-4 (german captions by me): Lunge Mine:  from top: - wooden handle - safety pin - shear wire - connection cylinder - striker - threaded connecting ring - detonator - steel case - explosive filling - steel cone - bottom plate - legs pull out safety pin, struck it against target, shear wire breaks, detonation penetration: 130 mm A similar construction with more chances to survive the explosion but only for lightly armoured vehicles and soft targets: Suction-cup mine: same source  from top: - pull igniters - safety fuze - blasting cap - connecting sleeve - primacord - handle - charge container - cast explosive - blasting cap - suction cup total length: 1800 mm charge container: 135 mm X diameter 112,5 mm charge weight: 2010 g charge type: 53 % RDX, 47 % TNT Two delay elements/primacords are used parallel to make sure the explosion happens. suck mine against target, pull friction igniters, safety fuze delay time 10-15 sec, upper blasting caps detonate igniting primacord, lower blasting caps ignite explosive Some of these devices were used during the December 1944 airbourne operations against US airstrips on Leyte and the Philippines Yours tom! 
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04-01-2008, 09:23 PM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Very interesting Tom and a good site. Tell us a bit more about yourself in the introductions thread. Cheers Geoff
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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