The following brief report on WWII Luftwaffe antipersonnel bomb was originally printed in Tactical and Technical Trends, No. 5, August 13, 1942. [DISCLAIMER: The following text is taken from the U.S. War Department publication Tactical and Technical Trends. As with all wartime intelligence information, data may be incomplete or inaccurate. No attempt has been made to update or correct the text. Any views or opinions expressed do not necessarily represent those of the website.]

12-KILOGRAM GERMAN ANTIPERSONNEL BOMB There are apparently two types of the German 12-kg. (26.4-lb.) antipersonnel bomb. One has walls of solid steel. The other has two concentric containers, each 0.1 in. thick; the intervening space is filled with steel pellets embedded in concrete. The inner container is coned at the base and the outer one closed by a base plate.

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