Literature on German Air Dropped Mines

[Chris Goss]

I was going to put this in the books section but thought it might get overlooked. I had hoped that Fleischer's book "German Air-Dropped Weapons to 1945" covered LMS, LMB and BM1000 but I cannot find even a mention. Are there any publications which cover this? I have copy of the CD Training Pamphlet No 2 "Objects Dropped from the Air" dated 1944 which does but in no great detail

[Snautzer]

"TM 9-1985-2: German Explosive Ordnance (Bombs, Fuzes, Rockets, Land Mines, Grenades and Igniters

OP 1673A: German Underwater Ordnance - Mines" (U.S. Navy Bureau of Ordnance, 1946)

I think i a a pdf if you can not find it on line.

[Chris Goss]

Thanks-found it online. If you want a copy Abe Books are asking quite a bit!

[Nick Beale]

Frustratingly, the Bundesarchiv digital viewer is down for maintenance at present but there are some digitised files available, e.g.

RL 7-4/143, Baueinheiten im Bereich der Luftflotte, Aug. 1941 (Kopie)Aug. - Okt. 1941
This includes: Kurze technische Angaben über Luftminen, Sept. 1941 (= brief technical statements about aerial mines)


RL 7-3/715, Verwendung von Bomben und Zünder (1941)
Including: Übersicht der Luftminen und Zündungsarten (= overview of aerial mines and types of fuse)


RL 3/7554, D (Luft) 4312 Abwurfmunition-Übungsminen.- Munitions-Handbuch.- Heft 1: LMA III (Ex), LMB III (ex), LMA III (Wurf-Ex) und LMB III (Wurf-Ex) (Sept. 1941)


RL 2-III/480, Luftminen (22. Dez. 1939)
Description mentions: 7./KG 26, 1./KG 30, 1./KG 40

[Chris Goss]

Thanks Nick