Yeah, some of the stuff SOE did in the war is just amazing
The stuff they managed to make booby-traps, fuses, timers, radios etc is absoultely amazing. An immensely resourceful bunch of people, if ever there was.
From teh wikipedia:
SOE developed a wide range of explosive devices for sabotage, such as limpet mines, shaped charges and time fuses. These were later also used by commando units. The SOE made pioneering use of Plastic explosive (the term plastique comes from SOE packaged plastic explosive originally destined for France but being taken to the USA instead) It was used in everything from car bombs, to exploding rats designed to destroy coal fired boilers.[20] Other, more subtle sabotage methods included lubricants laced with grinding materials, incendiaries disguised as innocuous objects and so on.,
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