Description
The cardboard body contains a hemispherical split wooden nose plug to which is nailed a nose fuze housing. A burster charge also fits into the cavity of the nose plug. There are two longitudinal slits in the body which terminate 2 inches from either end of the body. A cardboard tail cone is attached to the body by four bayonet joints which engage four bolts on the exterior of the bomb body.
Four cardboard fins are taped to the tail cone and are braced by two sets of cardboard box type struts.
The bursting charge splits the bomb longitudinally along the two slits into halves allowing the pamphlets to escape.
Hazardous Components
Small burster charge. No explosive weight or composition given.
See Also
General Information, Japanese Army Bombs
Nose, D-1(b), Aerial Burst
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