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Show 'Bouncing Betty' Bouncing Betty is Public Enemy No. 1 of the American doughboys slowly but steadily battling their way up the Italian peninsula to Rome. Bouncing Betty is not a female, but the name which the Infantryman the man who sees most and knows best all the weapons the Germans can throw against him has given, with grim humor, to the Nazi S-rnine. S-rnine. This mine, which the doughboys have elected their toughest foe, is a nasty little contrivance shaped like a good-sized tin can. It is buried bur-ied just below the surface of the ground and has three small metal prongs above ground. When one of them Is touched n small explosive charge Is detonated which throws the can about five feet in the air. There the main charge goes oil, hurling a multitude of small metal balls In all directions. |