Original Italian WWI Bangalore Torpedo Explosive Tube for Clearing Obstacles French Pistols Austria on 14 August 1945

Austria on 14 August 1945

The three tripod legs DO NOT have the addition of a spike on the feet

carrying out 330 between May 1943 and 15 May 1945

under the command of Captain Thomas Boland

the 60th Infantry fell back to the Monschau area where its efforts won it a third Presidential Unit Citation in the snow and bitter cold of the Battle of the Bulge

Original Italian WWI Bangalore Torpedo Explosive Tube for Clearing Obstacles French Pistols Austria on 14 August 1945Original Item: Only One Available. A Bangalore torpedo is an explosive charge placed within one or several connected tubes. It is used by combat engineers to clear obstacles that would otherwise require them to approach directly, possibly under fire. It is sometimes colloquially referred to as a "Bangalore mine", "banger" or simply "Bangalore". The Bangalore torpedo was first devised by Captain R. L. McClintock, of the Royal Engineers while attached