Army & Navy - Incendiary Goose

Dispatches from the war zones have occasionally mentioned a new and highly effective incendiary machine-gun bullet in use by Allied airmen. Last week the Army authorized publication of some details which can be no secret to the Axis by now.

Main fact about the projectile, which is fired from a .50-caliber machine gun, is that it can blow up an enemy aircraft's self-sealing gasoline tank. Earlier in the war the self-sealing tank was good insurance against old-style tracer bullets. By preventing leakage of fuel and formation of explosive vapor, the tank nullified the tracer. But the new bullet explodes...

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