SD2 BUTTERFLY BOMB WINGS.
MINOR UPDATE…….I SNAGGED TWO OF THESE…..THAT’S RIGHT TWO!!!! THE GREEDY BUGGER THAT I AM. I THINK THEY BOTH HAVE THE ARMING WIRE ALSO.Victory is mine! Snagged an unmolested set set FINALLY!!!!!! original paint and in not too bad a condition. A soak in the “juice” & I think they will come out looking good.
Now If iIcan just locate a charge body……….
TOPFMINE A4531 that i would love to add to my collection.
Here is a brief run down on the Topfmine:
The Topfmines were a series of German circular minimum metal anti-tank blast mines that entered service with the German army in 1944, during the Second World War.
The mines used a case made of compressed wood-pulp, cardboard and tar along with glass plugs and components designed to be undetectable by Allied mine detectors. Often the only metallic part of the mines was the detonator.
To enable the mines to be found by friendly forces, the mines were painted with a black sandy substance called Tarnsand (camouflage sand). Allied forces found that although the mines were undetectable by Allied mine detectors, German mine detectors could find the mines when they had been marked with Tarnsand. The secret of Tarnsand was maintained until after the end of the war, when it was discovered that it was amildly radioactive substance and the German mine detectors incorporated a simple Geiger counter.
Topfmine A
The Topfmine A had a flattened dome-shaped case with a raised flat circular pressure plate on the top surface surrounded by a circular shear groove. The case was normally made from pulped wood and cardboard mixed with tar for waterproofing. However, sometimes the case was made from bituminous coal waste. The SF 1 fuze was inserted into the underside of the mine and was placed inside a large glass plug which sealed the bottom of the mine. A secondary fuze well was provided on the bottom of this plug for installing anti-handling devices.
The SF 1 fuze was constructed of glass and wood and contained a detonator and booster charge.
Pressure of approximately 330 pounds (150 kg) on the pressure plate caused the plate to shear off from the mine casing, collapsing down on the glass head of the pressure fuze. The glass head was driven downwards, crushing two glass vials of chemicals, which reacted together causing a flash, initiating the detonator, booster and finally the main charge of TNT.
Two versions of the mine were produced - a fully waterproofed version designated “To.Mi.A4531” and the normal “To.Mi.4531”.
Topfmine B.
The Topfmine B (To.Mi.B4531) was broadly similar to the “A” version, the principal difference being a smooth case without a raised pressure plate. This version instead had an internal shear groove to prevent water from working its way into the mine and possibly deactivating it.
Topfmine C.
The Topfmine C (To.Mi.C4531 or Pappmine) changed the design to an eight-sided flattened cylinder shape, with a central glass fuze plug on the top. This design was very thin-walled and sympathetic detonation could occur if the mines were planted closer together than seven feet (2 m).
WW2 HISTORY BOOKS FOR SALE.
Ok history nerds I just added 9 new titles to the museum library & some of them I already have. So I’m passing them on to you. I will let you know what titles are going to be up for sale & their price in the next few days. If you have any questions just let me know. These are great books & are full of great info & maps etc. They are compiled from German, US & Soviet after action reports & first hand accounts from captured personnel. These are genuine not reprints or copies. They are great reads & you know you want um. So get off your butts get some learning in.
WEHRMACHT INTERNET MUSEUM LIBRARY. I love the smell of old books
Here is a title list: WHIM MANUAL INVINTORY.
HISTORICAL STUDIES:
#20-202 German Tank Maintenance in WW2
#20-231 Combat in Russian Forests & Swamps.
#20-233 German Defense Tactics Against Russian Breakthroughs.
#20-236 Night Combat #20-240 Rear Area Security in Russia.
#20-255 The Campaign In Poland (1939) *hardcover*
#20-260 The German Campaigns In The Balkans (spring 1944)
#20-242 German Armored Traffic Control During The Russian Campaign.
#20-292 Warfare in The North.
#20-271 The German Northern Theater Of Operations 1940-1941
TACTICAL & TECHNICAL TRENDS:# 53,56,57
WAR DEPT TECHNICAL BULLETIN:
#TB SIG E8 German Radio Transmitters 20 W.S.c & 20 W.S.d
#TB SIG E9 German Radio Transmitter 100 W.S.
#TB SIG E14 German Radio Receiver Kw. E.a
#TB SIG E16 German Radio Set Torn. fu. g.
#TB SIG E24 German Field Telephone Model 33.
INTELLIGENCE BULLETINS:
#VOL. I. NO 11 July 1943
#VOL. II. NO 1. Sept 1943
#VOL.II. NO 2. Oct 1943
#VOL. II. NO 3 Nov 1943
#VOL. II. NO 4 Dec 1943
#VOL. II. NO 5 Jan 1944
#VOL. II. NO 6 Feb 1944
#VOL.II. NO 7 Mar 1944
#8
#VOL. II. NO 9 May 1944
#VOL. 11. NO 10 June 1944
#VOL. II. NO 11 July 1944
#12
#1
# VOL. III. NO 2 Oct 1944
# VOL. III. NO 3. Nov 1944
#4
# VOL. III. NO 5. Jan 1945
#6
#7
#8
#9
#10
#11
#VOL III. NO 12 AUG 1945
SPECIAL SERIES:
NO. 8 German Tactical Doctrine.
NO. 10 German Antiaircraft Artillery.
NO. 14 German Infantry Weapons.
NO. 16 Enemy Capabilities For Chemical Warfare.
NO. 18 German Winter Warfare.
NO. 21 German Mountain Warfare.
NO. 22 Company Officers Handbook of the German Army.
German Military Symbols
TECHNICAL MANUAL:
TM 5-325 Enemy Land Mines & Booby Taps.
TM 30-450 Handbook On German Military Forces.
TM E9-369A German 88-MM Antiaircraft Gun Matériel.
TM E9-325A German 105-MM Howitzer Materiel.
TM 5-223C German Mine Warfare Equipment
TM 9-1985/ TO 30B-1A-9 German Explosive Ordnance (bombs, fuzes, rockets, land mines, grenades & igniters)
TM 9-1985-3/TO 39B-1A-10 German Explosive Ordnance (projectiles & projectile fuzes)
FM 30-15 Basic Field Manual Military Intelligence: Examination of Enemy Personnel , Repatriates, Documents & Matériel
FM 30-22 Basic Field Manual Military Intelligence Foreign Conventional Signs & Symbols
FM 30-42 Basic Field Manual Military Intelligence: Identification of Foreign Armored Vehicles German, Japanese, Russian & Italian.
FM 9-40 Ordnance Unexploded Bombs Organization & Operation for Disposal.
Enemy Equipment Part 1 German Mines & Traps 1943
Military Training Pamphlet #58 Disposal, Destruction & Immobilization of Vehicles in the field. 1943.
Military Training Pamphlet #40 Mines & Booby Traps Part 2 (all arms) Laying & Recording of British Mines. 1944.
AFV Recognition Part 2. July, 1943 Enemy Turreted AFVs.
FM 5-31 C5 Engineer Field Manual Land Mines & Booby Traps. (supplemental update) Mines-Charges used by the German Army. (small w green cover)
Don’t Get Killed by MINES & BOOBY TRAPS. (small red cover)
Weapons & Armaments of the modern German Army. (small yellow cover)
Handbook Of GERMAN AIRCRAFT AMMUNITION Project TS 1-48 Feb 1956 Development & Proof Services ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND.
Recognition Handbook of Technical Equipment used by the German Army (& other ground forces) Section IV, Signals Equipment
SD2 BUTTERFLY BOMB TRANSPORT CASE.
This is not from my personal collection. A good friend landed this last year.
I just wanted to show it seeing as we are on a bit of an SD2 kick right now.
A quick shot of my S-mines (BOUNCING BETTY) & their accessories.
Going Left to Right:
Wood accessories box, this held fuzes, fuze adapters spare sealing washers & blasting caps. The wood box is the first version & was used throughout the war.
Next is a S.mi.35 mine. This is a very early version of this mine. Its painted green still has its Bakelite transit cap. Also interesting with this unit is the sealing wax….its still on it!!!! The wax was used to seal the inner mine body that “bounced” up once the mine was triggered.
Next to it is the later version S.mi.44 its painted in Ordnance Tan & is a simplified version of the 35.
The box on the far upper right is the mid/late war accessory box made of stamped steel & spot welded steel dividers.
The bottom row going Left to Right again is the Bakelite box for 3 S.mi.Z.35 fuzes.
In the middle is a carboard box for 15 ZZ.42 fuzes.
The small waxed carboard wrapped wood box held 15 #8 Sprengkapsel (blasting caps)
In the next row we have a mid/late war cast iron 3 way fuze adapter then a set of spare rubber sealing washers & the early war 2 way fuze adapter.
On the bottom we have a Gluhzunder 28 electric fuze.
