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[US-Subs]

For those who have never been to the US National Archive, I highly urge you you make a visit. While it takes a little more effort than your standard museum visit the rewards can be high.

Rummaging through some info I recently came across a few pictures of EOD cleanup in the PI after the Japanese departure. A mixture of US and Japanese ordnance, I've left these full size so that you can zoom in for a better look.

 

[kiwieod]

very interesting,what are the small bombs in photo #4,ive never seen those before

 

[kahu1]

I think they were the type that were dropped on bombers.

 

[MINENAZ16]

This one :

 

[Fjordhouse]

Nice pictures, I am still looking for one of those, if anybody has one and he wants to sell it please let me know, regards Ben

 

[US-Subs]

The 1/2 kg is much harder to find than the 1/3kg HEAT. While there does not seem to be any different models of the submunition we have seen three variations of the fuze. One with a knurled body, one not knurled, and one with a pointed body rather than curved (sharp ojive).

 

[US-Subs]

A few more. In photo 1 it is identified as 1 million rounds of small arms mixed with M47 incendiary bombs, 2 is interesting with the torpedoes, the M74 incendiary submunitions,and just to their left I'm not sure if it is a non-standard Japanese bomb or an early (pre-WWII) US MKIII 25lb bomb. Photo 3 is identified as a Japanese 40kg FS smoke pot, and photo 4 has some Jap 50kg Army bombs, some interesting ammo drums in the background, a large quantity of the 1/3rd kg submunitions and just above them what appears to be several M83 submunitions with the fins released.

Movement of both the 1/3rd kg and the M83s would seem like a pretty bad idea, but it doesn't appear that much consideration was given.

 

[US-Subs]

 

[JCB99]

Great photos JO, hope you are good. Happy new year. Love seeing pictures like this. So little of the big stuff survived. Thanks for posting!

Jim
JapaneseOrdnance at Yahoo.com

 

[US-Subs]

 

[MINENAZ16]

Very nice and rare pictures.
Thanks for sharing.

 

[US-Subs]

This is it from this group. Starts off with some 120mm AA material, then a couple of collection shots which appear to be the same site from different angles.
In regard top the final photo, it appears that the guess about picture 2 of the second group above was likely correct as a WWI US bomb. The identification for this photo is "Improvised glide bombs, obsolete 100lb US WWI type".