Nevertheless, even when the enemy knew the dump had been tampered with, it was nearly impossible to detect which round was booby-trapped so Italian Green and Pole Bean also succeeded in sowing seeds of doubt. The name was changed to Project Italian Green, and later, to Pole Bean and the rest of the ammunition was quickly placed in ammo caches, although without the leave-no-trace finesse of the Eldest Son operations.
On 17 February 2018, a booby-trapped Palestinian flag was planted along the Israel-Gaza border fence, east of the.
#THIS WAR OF MINE GAME BOOBY TRAPPED AMMUNITION TV#
It is a very, very small percentage of the ammunition that has exploded.” There were even Armed Forces Radio and TV PSAs about the dangers of using captured weapons due to their “faulty metallurgy” which were, of course, meant for the enemy to overhear.Įldest Son was compromised when its details appeared in US press in 1969. conjunction with anti-vehicle mines to prevent tampering with or removal of the mine. One bogus enemy report read “We know that it is rumored some of the ammunition has exploded in the AK-47. If there was any exploding pens in italy then my bet is they were OSS or british commando items supplied to partisans for destruction of axis supplies/munitions.It is well known that there were many 22 caliber and 25 caliber 'pen guns' used clandestinely and available for purchase even before the war. intelligence briefs designed to fall into enemy hands. Interesting yet so much wartime facist bunk.
Then, the second part of Eldest Son kicked in: the dissemination of forged Chinese and NVA documents about the problem as well as U.S. When the ammo turned up in the front lines, weapons began exploding, killing enemy riflemen and sometimes entire mortar crews. They were always careful to leave just one round at a time so all the evidence of sabotage would be destroyed when the round was fired. They would also load them into the magazines of rifles found near dead enemy soldiers.
Green Berets carried booby trapped rounds with them and slipped them into enemy ammunition caches whenever possible.
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