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incendiary bombs.:
they may go through an ordinary | ‹ roof made of tiles, slates or cor- rugated iron, they probably would in remain in an upper story and start a roof fire, which it would be very difficult to put out.
these up with has a fairly
Now, these incendiary bombs are tion.
surprisingly small. The most usual ondon or Man- type weighs about two pounds, and the bomb war- one large bomber can carry between f a judicious 1000 and 2000 of those things. If ose and incen- scattered over a city and not dealt The pattern of incendiary bomb robably a small with at once, they might start so which we are told is most likely to This writer's many fires that no fire brigade be used against this country is the ill be relative- could cope with them all. Moreover, one usually called the electron bomb
used, for the the previous use of huge ex- and which carries 34 ounces. os have an ex- plosives will have damaged water consists of a tube nine inches long ect as com- mains, so that there would pro- and two inches in diameter, made losive or incen- bably not be enough water for fire of an alloy of magnesium and,
engineer to use, and will also have aluminum. broken up thoroughfares so that
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At one end there is a tail five fire engines could not reach the sites inches long to steady the bomb in of the fires.
flight. The tube is filled with Incendiary bombs, owing to their priming composition of the thermite
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lightness and general flimsiness, type, and the bomb is fitted with an cannot be aimed with any degree of igniter which may be situated either accuracy. They - are not dropped in the nose or in the rear end of the singly, but are released from con- tube. tainers, each holding ten to 20 bombs, and in fact, a big salvo of several containers can. be released g it impossible simultaneously.
is over London lanes to drop a bison gas and ith plenty of xplosive. This with TNT and ings and smash
generally pave These bombs have very poor po- rmous rain of wers of penetration, so that, while
The bomb ignites on impact and does not explode. One point to be remembered is that, although this type is often described as a thermite bomb, the incendiary agent it con- tains is not the thermite composi- tion, but the magnesium tube itself. The thermite will burn for just un- der a minute at a temperature of 2500 degrees centigrade, and this great heat melts and ignites the magnesium tube. The magnesium itself will burn up to a quarter or an hour at a temperature of about 1300 degrees centigrade, and it may remain active as long as 20 minutes and will set fire to anything in- flammable within a few feet.
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