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What Was a Magnum?

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5th June 2025, 00:59

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Re: What Was a Magnum?

According to references in the book "An Expendable Squadron: The Story of 217 Squadron, Coastal Command, 1939–1945" By Roy Conyers Nesbit, a Magnum was an air-dropped 2000 lb electro-magnetic mine, activated by the magnetic field of a ship passing over the mine.

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