The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
FLINDERS NAVAL DEPOT, VIC. 1942-08. "D" TYPE GERMAN PARACHUTE MINE, USED FIRST AT COVENTRY, ENGLAND, AND LATER USED EXTENSIVELY AS A MAGNETIC MINE IN VARIOUS WATERS AROUND ENGLAND. THE MINE IS DROPPED BY MEANS OF A PARACHUTE, AS SHOWN IN PICTURE NO. 26193, AND CAN BE EXPLODED ON IMPACT OR BY MAGNETIC MEANS. THE MINE FALLS AT BETWEEN 40 AND 45 MILES PER HOUR.
FLINDERS NAVAL DEPOT, VIC. 1942-08. "D" TYPE GERMAN PARACHUTE MINE, USED FIRST AT COVENTRY, ENGLAND, AND LATER USED EXTENSIVELY AS A MAGNETIC MINE IN VARIOUS WATERS AROUND ENGLAND. THE MINE IS DROPPED
This German Teller mine was used extensively in the Tobruk area. The wire acted as trip to set the mine off. As a double menace, pull type igniters were often placed under the mine so that when it w
The release of a bundle of CHRI (also known as American ropes) from a window launching machine Mk 1a. Two ropes from the previous bundle can be seen in the background. Dropping speed: 20 bundles per m
Wedmore, England. Informal portrait of Lieutenant Howard Dudley Reid GM and Bar, RANVR, attached to the Enemy Mining Section at HMS Vernon. He is standing beside the first German Type C aerial magneti
Wedmore, England. Royal Army Service Corps mine disposal staff supervising the retrieval of the first German acoustic parachute mine made safe by mine disposal officers attached to the Enemy Mining S
A parachute, used as an ammunition carrier, caught in the trees at Vaire Wood, during the Battle of Hamel on 4 July 1918, when the supply of ammunition to the infantry by means of parachutes was a fea
