Wooden stick is used to prevent possible shock concussion detonation if you used metal, bare hands..... Well rubber gloves not common, just wait for the headache later
My dad was with the 1st Canadian Division when they went ashore in Reggio De Calabria, Italy. He told me he had, in addition to his personal equipment, a half-dozen Bren mags, two cases of projectiles for the Piat mortar, a hundred feet of rope, a six-foot ladder and a 5-foot section of bangalore torpedo. Somehow, the ladder, the rope and the bangalore got lost over the side of the landing craft on the way in. Nobody ever asked him for any of them.
The British Army now have an improved version called the Bangalore Blade. During tests an original Bangalore cleared a path 3m/10ft wide through triple razor wire. The Blade which is made from aluminium and locks together rather than screws (so doesn't clog as easily) cleared a path 10m/30ft wide. It also disturbs the ground to a depth where landmines are commonly laid.
Jeffrey Crawley Dont they now have a Bangalore cable of sorts attached to a rocket and mounted on vehicles? I saw a video a year back where they launched a rocket trailing an explosive cable that was detonated once it hit the ground effectively clearing mines and barbed wire for 100 ft.
@@codyblea3638 That's it, the corners shear off like cutting blades. A few years ago I attended a demonstration where they were showing the effects of shaped charges and the like. they strapped a variation on this around a 300mm square reinforced concrete column and it sliced it like paper cutting scissors.
@@TheAir2142 I know there was talk of a rifle launched cable system but the group I was with were more interested in civilian applications - best "bangs" display since I was invited to family bonfire night at Fort Halstead at Sevenoaks!
The British 8th Army tank unit - the 1st Assault / Scorpion Regiment used what they called 'snakes' in the Desert Campaign and in Sicily and Italy. My dad told me that a 'snake' was a much longer Bangalore Torpedo which was attached to the front of a Sherman tank and pushed into barbed wire, next to pill boxes, minefields etc to clear them. They were very effective but hell for the tank crew when they exploded. He was left with red cheeks due to blast damage to his capilliaries. Thanks for posting - it brings back memories of my dad's war stories.
Thanks to the Periscope Film for this documentary on "Bangalore Torpedo", this equipment was produced in Bangalore, The Bangalore city which is now capital of state of Karnataka in India.
Hope with the new privatization of our defense supply sector we will continue the legacy of Bangalore how they helped the Allied Forces to defeat the Axis powers in Normandy Beaches
Or better, if you are wearing your helmet, align the crimping pliers, and hold the assembly over your head, and your helmet and THEN crimp it onto the fuse. Then you only lose fingers if you screw the pooch...
Great idea, let's crimp a det without looking at it, after moving it around or your body, so risking pulling the safety fuse out of position, or you holding onto the explosive body part of the det.
@@chaz8758 This was how the defence force thought it. just because you can't wrap your head around the concept does not make it an invalid one. I will pass on the message that lessons learnt the hard way are in fact incorrect according to chaz8758 from TH-cam
Sky hiker! I just watched the longest day for the first time in my life. Ditto! It led me to this particular video. History going back to World War 1 wow.
Crawling up to the wire, the enemy _will_ shoot _at you_ if they see you; this _might_ hit/cause your deceasement (this is GooTube).....Failing to run as fast as you possibly can after igniting the fuse _will_ cause your deceasement...usually into several hundred very small, damp pieces.
Also a little ironic that it creates a traffic funnel where the enemy knows where you will be due to their attention being raised by a large bang. Workplace health and safety nightmare that.
Usually this is done at several places in the wire and the enemy is too busy keeping down and out of the way of artillery explosions and covering fire to notice a few more.
did you know when they built wooden cabins in the 1800's all the tools were cordless and needed no batteries.. and 1 tool always did 100 other things amazing
@@codyblea3638 every time i had an MRE, i liked to imagine some very hungry officer searching the ground for 3 days because the instructions originally only said "use a rock"...so the Army had to add "or something" to keep butter-bar LT's from starving to death.
@@steveej1558 You should try K-rations and one P-38 (can opener) for every 5 boxes of K-rats. The bayonette came in quite handy when you didn't have a P-38. Num-nums.
They are a blast to touch off. thankfully we just went right out to the range to learn about them and bypassed this kind of snore inducing film.Still, now that I'm retired this is kinda fun to watch.
That convenient box was cutting-edge technology at the time. Not many know this, but that's what won the design contract. Everyone else had their bangalores just rolling around on the floors of vehicles as their transport method.
If you believe the mythology, there's nothing on earth more ingenious and resourceful than a wartime soldier trying to a) avoid getting himself killed or b) fill his belly. Everything else is of secondary importance.
Apparently, from the “improvised” portion of the video, all you need is some downspout pipes, a crap ton of TNT, a “wooden plug” from a tree branch, and some cannon fuse. Add in huge testes from the greatest generation and you too can cut all the barbed wire in sight. Also, won’t make a crater in soft dirt but will destroy a bridge? Sounds suspicious...
We used 2 U- shaped pickets, 8' long. 4 blocks of C-4 several feet of det cord and a blasting cap, held together with duct tape. It has been at least 30 years since I have done any Cbt Eng work.
they actually do....find the right size branch and cut to length with a rope saw or similar. Did you ever go camping or were in the boyscouts? The woods are full of tools and materials.
Sort of, the exteme high speed burn of the cord fractures the structure of the explosive causing the material to detonate commonly called a high low det.
Should never run from an explosive the fuse should be long enough to walk away, cause if you trip whilst running you might sprain your ankle and then you gotta crawl or limp
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why are these called 'torpedos'? is there some antiquated definition of 'torpedo' that covers this? aren't torpedos the munitions that naval vessels launch under the surface?
Back in the day, they called those 'automotive torpedoes' as opposed to the non-automotive kinds we'd now call 'mines'. Name comes from a fish that stuns bigger creatures with an electric jolt.
Like the adjective "torpid," "torpedo" can be traced back to the Latin verb torpēre, meaning "to be sluggish or numb." In Latin torpedo referred to stiffness or numbness, and also to the crampfish or electric ray. "Torpedo" first entered English as a name for the electric ray. During the Napoleonic Wars, the American inventor Robert Fulton experimented with an explosive charge for use against warships which he called a "torpedo" (and which we would now refer to as a mine), after the electric ray's ability to incapacitate creatures it comes in contact with. Fulton was also the inventor of the "Nautilus," an early hand-powered submarine which was one of the precursors of the vessels that would deliver the more familiar cigar-shaped torpedoes with such devastating effects during the 20th century's two World Wars
I like how the guy throw down the assembled detonator at around 515 Sneak up the enemy to install the Bangalore because of enemy machine gun and sniper fire. Run away from the detonation exposing yourself to the enemy machine gun and sniper fire and watch the fun. That seems like a contradiction.
“The Bangalore Torpedo was 50 feet long and packed with 85 pounds of TNT, and you assembled it along the way-by hand. I’d love to meet the asshole who invented it!”
They're just packing TNT into a steel pipe with bare hands and a stick. Grandpa was a badass.
Wooden stick is used to prevent possible shock concussion detonation if you used metal, bare hands..... Well rubber gloves not common, just wait for the headache later
It’s still done that way in demolition today
Just don't lick your fingers...
Standard military issue stick
@@ffjsb lol it actually absorbed through the skin and did the same as medical nitro- glycerin..gave a them nice headache
"Bangalores come in convenient boxes.."
Neat, I'll pick some up next time I'm at the Super-O-Shoppe Center!
I was thinking the same thing! and it was probably the only thing in the war that was convenient!
My dad was with the 1st Canadian Division when they went ashore in Reggio De Calabria, Italy. He told me he had, in addition to his personal equipment, a half-dozen Bren mags, two cases of projectiles for the Piat mortar, a hundred feet of rope, a six-foot ladder and a 5-foot section of bangalore torpedo. Somehow, the ladder, the rope and the bangalore got lost over the side of the landing craft on the way in. Nobody ever asked him for any of them.
Big thanks to your Dad for his service.
Everybody needs 100 feet of rope, I learned this from D&D.
The British Army now have an improved version called the Bangalore Blade. During tests an original Bangalore cleared a path 3m/10ft wide through triple razor wire. The Blade which is made from aluminium and locks together rather than screws (so doesn't clog as easily) cleared a path 10m/30ft wide. It also disturbs the ground to a depth where landmines are commonly laid.
Isn't that one a square body with thicker corners? Like so thick that the internal hole is circular with the thinnest parts at the flats?
Jeffrey Crawley Dont they now have a Bangalore cable of sorts attached to a rocket and mounted on vehicles? I saw a video a year back where they launched a rocket trailing an explosive cable that was detonated once it hit the ground effectively clearing mines and barbed wire for 100 ft.
@@codyblea3638 That's it, the corners shear off like cutting blades. A few years ago I attended a demonstration where they were showing the effects of shaped charges and the like. they strapped a variation on this around a 300mm square reinforced concrete column and it sliced it like paper cutting scissors.
@@TheAir2142 I know there was talk of a rifle launched cable system but the group I was with were more interested in civilian applications - best "bangs" display since I was invited to family bonfire night at Fort Halstead at Sevenoaks!
@@LosPeregrinos51 thanks brosef
Gotta love these training films. Puts you right in the chair next to all them boys who were watching them back then.
Bill D. in Iowa
All through High School dozens of us who didn't like PE sat in ROTC watching these old movies.
And then we entered service as E- 3s.
I'm very grateful to have so many period films so that I can understand the mechanics of the old wars better.
I'm prior service from the early 90's and I enjoy watching these old military videos.
I literally watched saving private Ryan the other day and thought to myself “man I’d love to see a doc on those things.”
'literally'?
@@lilianahenry4572 Yes, it's allowed nowadays.
That film was the first time I ever heard of Bangalore torpedoes. I suppose Tom Hanks' company saw this film.
"Bring up the Bangalores"
Howard Pringnitz maybe write in emojis, they’ll understand.
The British 8th Army tank unit - the 1st Assault / Scorpion Regiment used what they called 'snakes' in the Desert Campaign and in Sicily and Italy. My dad told me that a 'snake' was a much longer Bangalore Torpedo which was attached to the front of a Sherman tank and pushed into barbed wire, next to pill boxes, minefields etc to clear them. They were very effective but hell for the tank crew when they exploded. He was left with red cheeks due to blast damage to his capilliaries. Thanks for posting - it brings back memories of my dad's war stories.
Thanks to the Periscope Film for this documentary on "Bangalore Torpedo", this equipment was produced in Bangalore,
The Bangalore city which is now capital of state of Karnataka in India.
@Dennis Young *Yes*
Hope with the new privatization of our defense supply sector we will continue the legacy of Bangalore how they helped the Allied Forces to defeat the Axis powers in Normandy Beaches
@@divyamansinghsen2912 Kingdom of Mysore had a good relation with british, So mysore was ahead compared to other kingdoms in india
@@divyamansinghsen2912 Mysore is the first city in asia to use electricity
Always crimp detonators to your side, facing the other direction. this atleast saves your eyes and face in the unlikely event the detonator goes off
Or better, if you are wearing your helmet, align the crimping pliers, and hold the assembly over your head, and your helmet and THEN crimp it onto the fuse. Then you only lose fingers if you screw the pooch...
@@Jonascord That does infact sound like a better procedure. Thank you for that
Great idea, let's crimp a det without looking at it, after moving it around or your body, so risking pulling the safety fuse out of position, or you holding onto the explosive body part of the det.
@@chaz8758 This was how the defence force thought it. just because you can't wrap your head around the concept does not make it an invalid one. I will pass on the message that lessons learnt the hard way are in fact incorrect according to chaz8758 from TH-cam
I have known guys that have lost fingers crimping dynamite caps !
Ever since I saw “The Longest Day” I’ve wondered about Bangalore Torpedoes.
Wow. Those things pack a punch. I never realized how powerful they were. Those guys setting up the weapon under fire had iron balls.
Loved training with these during live fire exercises..
I am from Bangalore and I approve of this video!
It's a literal boomstick.
I always knew there was something missing in my "Boy Scout Manual".
Was it porn, Ken?
Never trained for this . But I saw a movie , only once , of some troops using it . Each man caries a part of it . Cool as hell when they used it .
Sky hiker! I just watched the longest day for the first time in my life. Ditto! It led me to this particular video. History going back to World War 1 wow.
Seems ironic that you "crawl/sneak-up" on the barbed wire line but get up and run like hell after you light the fuse.
Crawling up to the wire, the enemy _will_ shoot _at you_ if they see you; this _might_ hit/cause your deceasement (this is GooTube).....Failing to run as fast as you possibly can after igniting the fuse _will_ cause your deceasement...usually into several hundred very small, damp pieces.
Also a little ironic that it creates a traffic funnel where the enemy knows where you will be due to their attention being raised by a large bang. Workplace health and safety nightmare that.
@grumpy old fart yup, usually uses a bic lighter. They used to use matches until that one time stumpy didn't get away in time......
Dude that is exactly what I was thinking!
Usually this is done at several places in the wire and the enemy is too busy keeping down and out of the way of artillery explosions and covering fire to notice a few more.
did you know when they built wooden cabins in the 1800's all the tools were cordless and needed no batteries.. and 1 tool always did 100 other things amazing
One of the best examples in the movies is the Bangalore relay on Omaha Beach in The Big Red One, with Lee Marvin and Mark Hamill.
Watching the Longest Day!!!
I still find gravel and bits of wire in my legs from a blast from a Bangalore Torpedo detonation 1978.
So that's what Robert Mitchum and the guys were using on the beach in The Longest Day! Now I see!
Very interesting.
My Mom and Dad told me what they were when we watched the movie on the tube, some 50+ years ago.
The movie "Big Red One" kinda demonstrated them using it on D-Day.
"The Longest Day", too.
Saving Private Ryan too.
Big Red One gave an opinion on how to reward the inventors of the Bangalore.
That they did chocobo.
You can use them on a neighbor too
I trained with these but when they told me the life expectancy of a pioneer/engineer was about 90 seconds in action, I wasn’t so enthusiastic
I'm not surprised.
I bet there's no line in the Army field manual which states "first, find yourself a small sliver of wood as you're going to need it later"....
Hey man, you need a "Rock or something" to prop up your MRE and FRH to uncle Sam's approved level.
@@codyblea3638 every time i had an MRE, i liked to imagine some very hungry officer searching the ground for 3 days because the instructions originally only said "use a rock"...so the Army had to add "or something" to keep butter-bar LT's from starving to death.
@@steveej1558 You should try K-rations and one P-38 (can opener) for every 5 boxes of K-rats. The bayonette came in quite handy when you didn't have a P-38. Num-nums.
Generals always imagine they're fighting in Europe deep down inside. Oh, and fighting WW II over again. Other terrains are merely a side show to them.
They are a blast to touch off. thankfully we just went right out to the range to learn about them and bypassed this kind of snore inducing film.Still, now that I'm retired this is kinda fun to watch.
I miss hearing Paul Harvey in the morning.
'and now: page two!'
burntorangeak
I turned on the radio at noon for years just to hear him.
Lowell Thomas is the narrator of this film.
@@jeffreyprice2982
I stand corrected.
Thank you.
That convenient box was cutting-edge technology at the time. Not many know this, but that's what won the design contract. Everyone else had their bangalores just rolling around on the floors of vehicles as their transport method.
I have been to Bangalore.
I approve this video.
Nothing more to say on this.
I have a feeling that many of these ideas were thought up by the soldiers who were using them before this training film suggested other uses.
of course...
Believe early ones were on a long stick with a long fuse
If you believe the mythology, there's nothing on earth more ingenious and resourceful than a wartime soldier trying to a) avoid getting himself killed or b) fill his belly. Everything else is of secondary importance.
Lt. Checkov says, "Bangalore torpedo avay...."
How do I go about ordering a convenient box containing ten sections of Bangalore torpedo? Amazon?
Acme.
Apparently, from the “improvised” portion of the video, all you need is some downspout pipes, a crap ton of TNT, a “wooden plug” from a tree branch, and some cannon fuse. Add in huge testes from the greatest generation and you too can cut all the barbed wire in sight.
Also, won’t make a crater in soft dirt but will destroy a bridge? Sounds suspicious...
Destructive device. Atf wanna know your location.
Kingwiththeax , placing sand bags on top will deflect the shockwave downwards.
@@mikesweeney5244 Beep beep!
Invented by Captain McClintock of the British army in bangalore in Bengal India
I'm 74 and have watched countless WWII movies but recently watched 2 that mentioned these. I had to find out WTF they were talking about.
G.I. crimping tool same as/similar to Klein Tools PWC-26 or J1005 ? (I use the -26 daily, for hundreds of crimps... excellent tool!)
The tool to use is a Gerber SOG survival knife.
@@barryhopesgthope686 for crimping?
Great tool for wars we no longer fight, lets hope.
After seeing these used in movies it’s good to know how they are actually implemented.
Thanks for the upload. I remember reading about these in a book but I couldn't really picture what they were talking about.
We used 2 U- shaped pickets, 8' long. 4 blocks of C-4 several feet of det cord and a blasting cap, held together with duct tape. It has been at least 30 years since I have done any Cbt Eng work.
You Engineers had all the fun!
@@david9783 Or is that steroids on a pipe bomb🙃
Star pickets and gelignite for us, ironically held together with fencing wire.
6 foot angle iron pickets windlassed together was our most common improvised version.
Ah, now I know why it sounds like the city I live in. It was actually made in Bangalore.
What do they think wooden plugs grow on trees?
they actually do....find the right size branch and cut to length with a rope saw or similar.
Did you ever go camping or were in the boyscouts? The woods are full of tools and materials.
@@muskokamike127 Er, woosh?
Fence posts. Firewood. Branches, small trees. Yup, they grow on trees.
Iam from Bangalore, never had thought of a weapon named after my city !
You should credit the Madras Sappers, Bangalore Torpedo was made by them (but designed by a Brit officer)
Yet another nifty use for bamboo!
The army always expects that there’s a little piece of wood every where you go...
The wood plugs comes in the box with them.
Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.
Sounds like the narrator is Lowell Thomas. He mostly narrated news reels. Didn't know he did these during the war.
Lockbar ya, it sounded like a newsreel
Jesus what a video , now John what do you say we go out tonight with the birds we met last week aye
7:31 - Crawling to the front, and running back exposed themself to sniper / MG but the job done
sweet. Ive been looking for this.
I wonder how it works with the new Razor wire ?
Introducing the "Clutter-B-Gone"!
Doing this under fire seems unbelievably impractical
Believe it or not the US Marines had WW2 bangalor torpedos in Desert Storm
A lot of older ordnance was used in Desert Storm.
Make sure you're not hung up on the barbed wire before igniting the fuse.
I wonder if it worked on Omaha beach as well as it did in the movie, The Big Red 1 ?
Robert Deen yes it did
Jeffery Hunter used them on " The Longest Day". Robert Mitchum made him a 2Lt for all of 5 mins.
At 4:00 he's using just bare hands to put TNT into a pipe. That stuff is poisonous, but I guess that they didn't expect to live long anyway.
Wire cutters seem a little easier that's such a big production just to cut barb wire
'Vipera Bofors' was an explosive rope propelled forward by a rocket to achieve the same effect...
I played with these while with 2nd CEB at CAX.
I wanna see them blow up the bridge and tank trap tho
Great way to part barbed wire entanglements
this is awesome , i want to buy one bangalore
FYI amanol is TNT and amonium nitrate
I remember using it at fort Leonard Wood during ait
In combat engineer school
In 1969.
The improvised bangalore is using eavestrough downspout.......crazy but effective!
Basically a pipe bomb on steroids.
We used 6 foot angle iron pickets wired together, I tried a plastic pipe but needed a. length of metal inserted to shred the wire
That was an awesome video extremely informative You think Ace Hardware has any down there lol
Saving Private Ryan used these in the beach scene
Same in "The Longest Day" where we see Capt. Christopher Pike (Star Trek Pilot) AKA Jeffery Hunter bite the big one.
Bangalore’s up the line!!!
Patterson, grab the Bangalore!
Low crawl to the target that is covered by machine guns, place the torpedo, then get up and run.
Don't forget to serpentine.
Background music=explosive
PE and star piquets worked even better!
Having watched "The big red one" some 20 years ago, I finally know what´s up with those BANGalores.
What if my Bangalore hit the mine under the wire?
Who is the narrator? The voice sounds familiar.
"Bangalores come in convenient boxes.." It seems that, that is the only thing convenient about it.
"prima-chord' (vs. primer-chord?)... same/similar to Detchord?
I think it is the same. Explosive cord used to shock a larger container of high explosive material.
Sort of, the exteme high speed burn of the cord fractures the structure of the explosive causing the material to detonate commonly called a high low det.
"Primacord" is the name of a specific brand of detcord. All Primacord is detcord, but not all detcord is Primacord.
It's all fun and games until someone looses an arm
Ah ya have a spare one.
That's loses, not looses.
Bring up the Bangalore's!!!!!
Watch the fun. Hilarious 😂😂
Should never run from an explosive the fuse should be long enough to walk away, cause if you trip whilst running you might sprain your ankle and then you gotta crawl or limp
Bang! Galore!
The bangalore is good and all, but I prefer the M58 MICLIC for obstacles.
The improvised one looks like eaves trough down spout.
Better check your down spouts.
Love your films, hate the counter at the bottom. Can't you do away with that? It blocks a good part of the picture where there may be captions.
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Anyone have a wooden plug?
Holy crap, how do you spell boom? B a n g a l o r e! They could use these now days on Michigan roads.
Aren't things bad enough with water freezing in the cracks and creating potholes?
G.I. crimping tool same as Klein Tools PWC-26 or J1005 ?
john hopkins how many more times you going to ask this stupid question?
@@samiam619 first post disappeared, so re-posted... don't be an asshole.
All looks like a breeze until you try under enemy fire
andy d
Like pretty much everything.
India has come a long way from Mysore Rockets to Bramhos and Agnis to become third most powerful nation in the world
why are these called 'torpedos'? is there some antiquated definition of 'torpedo' that covers this? aren't torpedos the munitions that naval vessels launch under the surface?
Back in the day, they called those 'automotive torpedoes' as opposed to the non-automotive kinds we'd now call 'mines'. Name comes from a fish that stuns bigger creatures with an electric jolt.
Like the adjective "torpid," "torpedo" can be traced back to the Latin verb torpēre, meaning "to be sluggish or numb." In Latin torpedo referred to stiffness or numbness, and also to the crampfish or electric ray. "Torpedo" first entered English as a name for the electric ray. During the Napoleonic Wars, the American inventor Robert Fulton experimented with an explosive charge for use against warships which he called a "torpedo" (and which we would now refer to as a mine), after the electric ray's ability to incapacitate creatures it comes in contact with. Fulton was also the inventor of the "Nautilus," an early hand-powered submarine which was one of the precursors of the vessels that would deliver the more familiar cigar-shaped torpedoes with such devastating effects during the 20th century's two World Wars
The mob used to call their hitmen torpedoes.
I like how the guy throw down the assembled detonator at around 515
Sneak up the enemy to install the Bangalore because of enemy machine gun and sniper fire.
Run away from the detonation exposing yourself to the enemy machine gun and sniper fire and watch the fun. That seems like a contradiction.
We used to use a longer safety fuse and crawl away often keeping head towards it
they used this on the beach in Saving Private Ryan. My kid was just playing Rogue Company and asked me what a Bangalore is?
“The Bangalore Torpedo was 50 feet long and packed with 85 pounds of TNT, and you assembled it along the way-by hand. I’d love to meet the asshole who invented it!”
Don't you get shot when you stand up to run away?
I came here because I was wondering what it did in the Beach landing scene in Saving Private Ryan!
Idk that was a British invention, learn something every day.
lol warning not to be confused with the Tent poles lol .