What's old is new again - Butterfly bombs?

[Hayata]

I'm a fan of the WWII and this is the first I've heard of these...

I need to step up my game...

 

[Redneck1919]

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

 

[palmettomoon]

At Ft. Sill we were constantly warned about straying into 'bomb run' areas where cluster bombs had been dropped. They'd get caught in trees and drop at random with the wind.

 

[napp]

At Ft. Sill we were constantly warned about straying into 'bomb run' areas where cluster bombs had been dropped. They'd get caught in trees and drop at random with the wind.

I ran across a sleeping nook in a underground VC bunker in 1967, where the little guy had set up an empty ammo box by his hammock (like a bedside table). On top or the ammo box was a single cluster bomb being used as a candle holder. Our demo guys were afraid to move it; so they detonated it in place....it was live.