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LLIGEECE
BULLETIN NO.3
ENGINEER SECTION
HI.EIGHTH ARMY
DECLASSIFIED
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE
PAGE
SECTION I - EDITORIAL, All Troops
1
SECTION II
- GENERAL REPORTS FROM OPERATIONAL
AREAS__
2
Cebu
2 - 29
Zamboanga
30 - 32
SECTION III - ANTI-WITHDRAWAL FUSES
33
Jap Naval Torpedo FEploders Used in
Land Mines
33 - 41
Japanese Tail Fuse, E-l(a)
42
SECTION IV -
JAPANESE USE OF MINESS
45
Booby Trapped Ammunition Dump (Luzon)
45
Depth Charge Road Block - Cebu City
46
Improvised 'Artillery Shell' Land Mine
49
Electrically Fired Controlled Road Mine -
(Panay)
49
Improvised Release Type Road Mine (Negros)
49
Pressure Bar Used in Road Mine (Negros)
49
Japanese Mine Road Block (Negros)
49
Controlled Mine Field (Panay)
49
Japanese Type 90 Flare Igniter Used as a
Pull Firing Device for Aerial Bomb Mines
50
NOTICE
This document is
classified as SECRET only because portions
of the contents describe the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of
Japanese tactics, techniqpes, and material against cur troops.
The material contained herein may be used for the training of
troops.
Published by
ENGINEER SECTION, HEADQUARTERS EIGHTH ARMY
in May 1945
Distributed to all Eighth Army units; GHQ, SWPA: USAFFE;
FEAF; Sixth Army; Tenth Army; Seventh Fleet; PHIBSEC; Land
Headquarters, SWPA; and Engineer Board, Ft. Belvoir, Va.
I-ALL TROOPS
Because the subject matter of this issue of the Engi-
neer Intelligence Bulletin is of general interest and ap-
plication, it is being distributed to Eighth Army troops
of all branches. The contents are limited to certain spe-
cific information on Japanese use of land mines an forti-
cations obtained during recent operations in the SA.
The material on mines should be used by troops only
in accordance with existing training directives, which pro-
vide in general:
that all combat and service troops will
be trained in precautions to be taken in the vicinity of
mines and booby traps, methods of probing for mines, me-
thods of removing mines and booby traps at a safe distance
with cables, and methods