Color and markings: Olive drab over all with "P.W. 2-41" in red across top of both cover and mine body. "P.W. 2-41" inscribed on fuze head.

Description: The body is of pressed steel construction with a crimped-on base. The co-ver is also pressed steel with four side slots corresponding with screw holds in the body which take the small fixing studs.

In the center of the cover is a brass plug. A helical spring holds the cover away from the body. The igniter and detonator assembly screws into the top of the body of the mine. The striker is spring-loaded and is held off the cap by the 1/16 inch diameter, soft cop-per shear wire. There is no safety pin.

The detonator assembly consists of a detonator tube enclosed by an outer tube, and a primer.

Employment: The Japanese use the mine mainly against personnel, laying them in nar-row trails, on beaches, and at entrances to bovouac areas. Normally they lay it on top of the ground.

Operation: The movement of the cover is regulated by the size and position of the slots. Pressure on the cover is transferred from the brass plug on to the striker head, thus shearing the shear wire and allowing the spring to drive the striker into the cap thereby detonating the mine.

A load of 50 pounds is sufficient to shear the copper shear wire.

Figure 157 – Dutch Antitank and Antipersonnel Land Mine.