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- From: Bruce Munro <B.Munro@bnr.co.uk>
- Subject: Re: Daisycutter
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:33:05 GMT
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- From Bruce Munro <B.Munro@bnr.co.uk>
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- In article <Bxq1qr.pr@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson) writes:
- >
- >From viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
- >
- >bf469@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Twila Oxley Price) writes:
- >
- >
- >>AS I recall, this is not an FAE. It is a GP or General Purpose Bomb,
- >>basically high explosives in a case.
- >
- > I noticed some of this ambiguity in the previous discussion,
- >and talked to Jim Jesma (Force Recon, MAC-SOG, etc...) about it. His
- >term for a Daisy-Cutter was one of those mini depth-charges they
- >dropped out of Huey's. It was a cylinder that contained a bunch of
- >washers, hence cutting down virtually everything in the new LZ.
- >
- > Perhaps the slang is not incredibly descriptive here?
-
- Hmmm. I remember watching a documentary about Vietnam that showed a
- Daisycutter being dropped to create an LZ. However, it was somewhat
- bigger than could be dropped from a Huey, being rolled out the back
- of a Hercules transport on a parachute. This was used to create an instant
- LZ in the forest, and the footage of the explosion was pretty spectacular,
- with the shockwaves running through the forest like ripples on a pond.
- Shame about the rainforest though.
-
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