These were used initially by the Royal Air Force Bomber Command and the German Luftwaffe in 1940-41. They acted as blast bombs and were capable of killing up to 100 people.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
These were used initially by the Royal Air Force Bomber Command and the German Luftwaffe in 1940-41. They acted as blast bombs and were capable of killing up to 100 people.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Parachute mines
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Feminist and pacifist. NUWSS, editor of Common Cause, internationalist, pacifist. Mainly metropolitan based. Born in Munich as Helena Maria Lucy Sickert, sister to Walter Sickert. Married the Man...
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Person, Politics & Administration, Science, France, Germany, USA
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Person, Literature, Politics & Administration, Germany, Mexico
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