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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220827-03
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1940s
Country: England,United Kingdom
Location:
TC Begins: 16:22:34
TC Ends: 16:32:25
Duration: 00:09:51
WWII - 1940s, Documentary: Beware - Butterfly Bomb R1 of 2 Adapted by US from British army instructional film - how to recognize & dispose of a butterfly bomb. 16:23:10 Two British servicemen walking along path thru trees spot butterfly bomb looking like scrap metal laying on ground. One touches & explodes in their faces; CU bloody face. VO “They paid a heavy price for ignorance.” 16:23:54 Bombed out houses. CU of Butterfly Bomb; soldier holding. Demonstration of how bomb opens, wings cause to rotate unscrewing spindle to arm the fuze. Drawing showing bursting above ground; on impact or on delay. Military truck driver recognizes butterfly bomb in oak leaves & tiptoes round it but it explodes putting shrapnel holes in truck. 16:25:57 CU butterfly bomb on gravel. Military camp, soldier runs into Guard Room & reports butterfly bombs dropping. Officer picks up phone & reports. CU wristwatch: 02:50; 03:25. Men dispatched; march thru camp; officer & sentry to bomb on ground & men rope off area. 16:28:43 UXB sign chalked. Men unload sandbags & build wall around butterfly bomb. Search & mark location of bombs in field. Wings of bombs w/o explosives found. WW2 Training Films; Anti-personnel bombs; Bomblets; Aerial Mines; Fragmentation Bombs; WW2;