Traps and Mines

Traps are designed to hold, maim or kill an enemy, mines are always designed to maim or kill an enemy. Many traps and mines have been improvised over the years and put to a range of uses. Traps and mines do not differentiate between friend or foe, everything that moves is their enemy and a potential victim of their usually deadly wrath. Wartime use has seen hundreds of thousands of innocent victims, as well as enemy soldiers, maimed or killed. Traps that proove too effective have seen many civilians sentenced to lenthly prison sentences for employing them to protect their own property. Never the less, the topic is an intriguing one, and one which is covered on this website in depth.

Mines and Booby Traps The following report concerning mines and booby traps was prepared by a former rifle platoon leader who served with the Americal Division in late 1967 and early 1968. His observations and reproduced to assist all personnel in detecting and neutralizing enemy emplaced mines and booby traps.

Booby Traps An array of improvised trap designs.

Land Mines The following will describe how field expedient land mines are built but with a twist. It is electrically fired rather than primer detonated.

Mines and Booby Trap A number of triggering devices for use in booby traps.

Pepper Pot Mine An example of an improvised version of the famous Pepper Pot MIne.

Shotgun Grenade How grenade type exploding ammunition for shotguns could be improvised.

Shotgun Shell Mine Details how shot-gun shells could be converted with basic materials into anti-personall mines.