OIL-BURNING BOMBS
NEW INCENDIARY TYPE USED
BY GERMANY,
LONDON, August 30. <
A new type of German incendiary bomb has been found in London. It consists of a section filled with crude oil and a! section for igniting it, and it provides fire-fighters with a new •problem, because water will not extinguish the burning oil, /necessitating more supplies of sand.
The use of the new bombs is probably due to the necessity for, Germany to economise in magnesium thermite, which is used in the common type of incendiary.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 54, 31 August 1940, Page 11
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87OIL-BURNING BOMBS Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 54, 31 August 1940, Page 11
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