• Pardon the dust while the boys rebuild the site.

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Airborne TNT

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Dan Kleeman

Rifleman
The airborne soldier usually carried 2 half pound blocks of TNT. How did they set it off? Did they carry a detanator or what?
 
Im reading the filthy 13 right now and i don't now if this will help but they carried lots of prima cord . And if you ever watch saving private rian a paratrooper set of tnt with a detonator but he could have gotten that anywhere. Hope this helps
 
The filthy 13 is a great book. Your quite right, I remember that they always had primer cord on them even during training they were blowing things up.

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They were almost certainly using a non-electric fuse lighter - not a detonator like you see in the Road Runner cartoons.
 
primacord is in itself an explosive, burining at thousands of feet per second, it allowed for the near simultaneous detonation of several charges. Engineers could wrap it several times around a tree and detonate it to drop the tree. It required a fuse lighter or blasting cap to set it off, setting it off directly would be disastrous. And always wire from the charge to the detonator!
 
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