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LucianV	Posted: February 24, 2013 09:38 pm
Soldat Group: Members Posts: 2 Member No.: 3086 Joined: July 01, 2011	Hello! I am doing some research about Ploiesti during the bombardments in WW2. I am not a specialist in military topics and details about the equipment. That is why i have just opened this topic. At this moment, i have a question: i found in a file fro 1941 with instructions given to the people by the mayor, and he said that there was a so-called ”block-bomb”, a bomb which contained like 40-50 incendiary bombs. After the mother-bomb was dropped it spreads in those incendiary bombs. They also had a diameter of 6 cm. Is this information true? Did some bombs like that exist in 1941? Or is just the imagination of the Romanian authorities? Many thanks!

Radub	Posted: February 24, 2013 10:41 pm
General de corp de armata Group: Members Posts: 1670 Member No.: 476 Joined: January 23, 2005	I think that may be the AN-M32. See here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category...or_incendiaries Hth Radu

Posted: February 26, 2013 03:32 am

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QUOTE (Radub @ February 24, 2013 05:41 pm)

AN-M32 is American.
LucianV mentioned that the instructions are from 1941.
The only one that bombed Romania in 1941 was the VVS (Soviet Air Force).

Radub	Posted: February 26, 2013 08:43 am
General de corp de armata Group: Members Posts: 1670 Member No.: 476 Joined: January 23, 2005	You are right, I did not pay enough attention to the year. The concept of incendiary cluster bomb is not unique to America. It is verry likely the Russians had an equivalent. Radu

luciang	Posted: February 26, 2013 12:23 pm
Soldat Group: Members Posts: 35 Member No.: 3280 Joined: March 18, 2012	Indeed the russians had such bombs, used already against the finns in the 1939-1940 Winter War: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov_bread_basket LucianG

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