UK bomb-disposal teams were having continuing problems rendering safe with German Butterfly bombs because no examples had been safely dismantled to learn the best process.
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In 1943 a number of people were killed and houses were damaged when butterfly bombs were dropped on the estate during a German air raid on Grimsby.
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Again, new approaches were tried; in June 1943 a raid on Grimsby saw the use of " butterfly bombs ", a delayed action anti-personnel device, which resulted in heavy civilian casualties.
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On 14 June 1943, an early-morning air raid by the Luftwaffe dropped several 1, 000 kg bombs, 6, 000 incendiary bombs and more than 3, 000 Butterfly Bombs in the Grimsby area.
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On the island of Malta in 1981 Paul Gauci, a 41-year-old Maltese man, died after welding a butterfly bomb to a metal pipe and using it as a mallet, thinking it was a harmless can.
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Whilst dealing with eight butterfly bombs which had fallen on RAF Harlaxton and failed to explode, Flight Sergeant Hanford of RAF Bomb Disposal ( based at RAF Digby ) noticed that the arming rods on the bombs had not fully unscrewed themselves i . e . the fuzes were not fully armed.
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Instead, the standard render safe procedure for any unexploded SD2 butterfly bomb was to evacuate the area for at least 30 minutes ( in case the bomblet was fitted with a type 67 time delay fuze ), then surround it with a ring of sandbags ( to cushion the explosion ) and destroy it " in situ " by detonating a small explosive charge beside it.
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The last recorded death from a German butterfly bomb in England occurred on November 27, 1956, over 11 years after the end of the war : Flight Lieutenant Herbert Denning of the RAF was examining an SD2 at the " Upminster bomb cemetery " ( some remote sandpits situated East of RAF Hornchurch, where explosive ordnance disposal experimental and research work took place ) when it detonated.
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