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To: IYAS9YAS

It’s a butterfly bomb and the Germans dropped thousands of them. Unsuspecting children would come across these hung up in trees or laying on the ground, thinking they had found a toy. In fact they had found a 2 kg anti-personnel cluster bomb...


41 posted on 12/07/2010 9:14:18 AM PST by stormer
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To: stormer
It’s a butterfly bomb and the Germans dropped thousands of them. Unsuspecting children would come across these hung up in trees or laying on the ground, thinking they had found a toy. In fact they had found a 2 kg anti-personnel cluster bomb...

Thanks for the explanation. I've never seen one before. I figured it to be some type of booby-trapped explosive, but wasn't sure of it.

43 posted on 12/07/2010 9:36:51 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (Liberalism can be summed up thusly: someone craps their pants and we all have to wear diapers)
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