104. Grenade mine E-5 (Behelfsmine E-5)

a. Description. The improvised antipersonnel grenade mine E-5 (fig. 127) consists of a sheet-metall box and lid, about 8 inches square and 4 inches high. The box, painted a dark green drab, contains five standard French egg hand grenades. The four outer gre-nades are of the thin-shelled concussion type and the central grenade, which acts as a booster charge, is a thick-shelled fragmentation type. A Buck chemical fuze (par. 28) is screwed into a metal adapter in the central fuze well in the lid and the adapter is screw-ed into the fuze well of the fragmentation grenade.

b. Employment. This mine is laid along road shoulders, trails, and hedgerows as an anti-personnel mine.

c. Functioning. A pressure of 15 pounds on the Buck chemical fuze, or on a pressure board laid over the mine, chrushes the fuze and fires the fragmentation grenade. This grenade, in turn, detonates the four concussion grenades.

d. Installing and Arming.

(1)

Place four concussion grenades in the corners of the box and a fragmentation gre-nade in the center of the box.

(2)

Place the lid on the box.

(3)

Grasping the Buck chemical fuze as near to the base as possible, screw it with the attached detonator, into the fuze well in the center of the lid.

e. Neutralizing.

(1)

Unscrew the fuze, holding it as near the base as possible.

(2)

Remove the detonator.

Note. If the aluminum cylinder is at all defaced, this improvised mine should be des-troyed in place.

Figure 127. Improvised antipersonnel grenade mine E-5.