WOW, love those Primers!!!!
Dean O
Ajax Canada
WOW, love those Primers!!!!
Dean O
Ajax Canada
I started another thread showing some of my dug up SOE OSS stuff so I won't hijack this one again.
Dean O
Ajax Canada
Must be a first on this forum!
Most excellent.
You can't beat a good exploding rat!.....
When I was a kid, the exploding rats were FAR louder and of better quality than todays inferior imported rats!
I wouldn't think that looking for possible exploding rats would be much different from the sort of security sweeps the Germans would have to undertake to try to counter sabotage attempts in general-which then raises the irony of the SOE manual which features the exploding wooden clogs, which in French are called sabot and are the origin of the word saboteur (a Peninsular War term coined by the French to describe 'guerrilla' folks using the clogs on their feet to dislodge boulders to fall on troops or block roads in the mountains).
I remember the 'splodin' rats and other such things featuring in 'Force 10 From Navarone' as carried in James Fox's bag of tricks.
Now available for tropical theaters of war: Exploding camels and exploding elephants offering considerably more bang for your buck! (Still under development are exploding whales for naval warfare: Exploding sperm whale carcass caught on camera in the Faroe Islands - YouTube )
Sorry, just couldn't resist it!
But, seriously: Very interesting; I had never heard of that.
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