Bomb Nose Fuze AN-M104, AN-M120A1, M170

To insure maximum safety, the following precautions should be taken when using clus-ters of bombs containing these fuzes:

1. Insure by repeated instruction that ALL men handling clusters containing bombs with these fuze understand the construction and operation of the cluster and fuzes. Keep the number of men to a minimum.

2. Inform local Bomb Disposal Officer of the use of these clusters and have hom stand by or be available upon call to assembly, handling, and loading areas.

3. Only Bomb Disposal Personnel, or other personnel similarly, are to handle armed fu-zes.

4. Insure that pilots and crews are informed of the possibility of a bomb's detonating following both land and water crashes. (The arming wire may be accidentally removed by impact, arming the fuze.)

5. Assemble fuzes to clustered bombs prior to hoisting into aircraft. (Because more care can be taken under more favorable conditions of light, weather, and accessibility.)

6. Fuze clusters only as needed.

7. After the cluster is positively fastened to the rack or shackle, the fuze arming wires should be checked and then the fuze safety cotter pins removed.

8. Do not mix loads of para-frags with other bombs.

9. Carry clusters only in TBF or other bomb-bay type aircraft of maximum safety.

10. These clusters may be used safety only with continuous maximum care.

Bomb Nose Fuzes AN-M110A1 and AN-M126A1

The following precautions should be taken when using bombs or clusters of bombs con-taining these fuzes.

1. Insure that all people handling bombs, or clusters of bombs, containing these fuzes are aware that a blow crushing one of these fuzes may cause the fuze to fire, detonat-ing the bomb. This could result from dropping a cluster of bombs five to ten feet onto a hard surface. Appropriate care must, therefore, be exercised.

2. It is recommended that clusters or bombs containing these fuzes not be carried on external racks in landings of carrier-based aircraft, since on arrested landings an acci-dentally released cluster or bomb might detonate as a result of crushing, even through the fuze were unarmed.