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incendiary bomb |
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incendiary bomb [in′sen·dē‚er·ē ′bäm] (ordnance) A bomb designed to be dropped from an aircraft to destroy or reduce the utility of a target by the effects of combustion. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In this spirit, on March 28 Harris commenced an offensive that targeted German residential areas, hitting Lubeck with incendiary bombs at night. Because incendiary bombs were by definition indiscriminate regarding specific targets, they became the weapon of choice for wreaking widespread destruction--a lesson the British learned from the German bombing of the industrial city of Coventry in November 1940, as well as of London and provincial cities like Bath and Canterbury intermittently throughout the following year. Noster also had detailed how he planned to use an $8,000 two-seat gyro helicopter to drop an incendiary bomb that would ignite after a several-second delay, investigators said. |
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