SOLD….WW II BOMB DISPOSAL FUSE EXTRACTOR

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SOLD….WW II  BOMB DISPOSAL FUSE EXTRACTOR Rare Item

This WW2 fuse extractor, is the manual version that was developed for the early bomb disposal guys, and removes fuses from their pockets at a safe distance.

This is the design No 7  (AP21106)  This piece comes in the original wooden box with brass carrying handle, it has metal plates to the corners, and a brass swivel lock.

This box is full of items for use on various devices and so has many spares.

WWII Bomb Disposal Fuse Extractor :- The United States War Department felt the British Bomb Disposal experience could be a valuable asset, based on reports from U.S. Army, Navy, and Marine Corps observers at RAF Melksham in Wiltshire, England in 1940. The next year, the Office of Civilian Defense (OCD) and War Department both sponsored a bomb disposal program. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the British sent instructors to Aberdeen Proving Ground, where the U.S. Army would inaugurate a formal bomb disposal school under the Ordnance Corps. Col. Thomas J. Kane became the U.S. Army Ordnance Bomb Disposal School commandant, and later served as ETO Director of Bomb Disposal under Dwight D. Eisenhower.^[9] In May 1941, British colleagues helped establish the Naval Mine Disposal School at the Naval Gun Factory, Washington, D.C. Concurrently, the U.S. Navy, under the command of Lt. Draper L. Kauffman (who would go on to found the Underwater Demolition Teams – better known as UDTs or the U.S. Navy Frogmen), created the Naval Bomb Disposal School at University Campus, Washington, D.C..

WW II BOMB DISPOSAL FUSE EXTRACTOR

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