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3 unusual facts about incendiary device


Incendiary device

The first incendiary devices to be dropped during World War I fell on coastal towns in the south west of England on the night of 18–19 January 1915.

The Hunt for Eagle One

They rescue Jennings and demo (set incendiaries in the lab) in an anthrax lab to eliminate the threat of chemical warfare.

Vincent R. Gray

Gray has a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Cambridge University after studies on incendiary bomb fluids made from aluminium soaps.


Blackburn Twin Blackburn

The first attacks by German bombing airships on the United Kingdom in the winter of 1914-15 resulted in the British Admiralty issuing a requirement for a two-seat aircraft with long endurance to attack Zeppelins by dropping incendiary Ranken darts onto the airships in the hope of igniting their gas envelopes, with an order for nine Blackburn TBs being placed in March 1915.

Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei

At 5 pm on February 20 an incendiary device was detonated at the Athens law firm of Anastasios Papaligouras, former Minister for Justice.

Renegade Rocket

A Mysteron reconstruction of Reeves arrives at Base Concord and takes over the launch control room, shooting the officer on duty, priming an incendiary Variable Geometry Rocket and launching it under the code "ZERO".

Rüsselsheim massacre

On the night of August 25, the British RAF sent 116 Lancasters into Russelsheim in order to attack the Opel Plant on a bombing mission, dropping 674 2,000-lb bombs and more than 400,000 incendiaries on the city, destroying the plant and damaging the railtracks, more by far any previous air raid in World War II.


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