Butterfly Bomb

Whit Monday 14th June 1943; the worst day in the history of Grimsby and Cleethorpes!

WW2 butterfly bomb fragments.

WWII AB23 butterfly bomb container (inert – this was never a bomb).

WW2 ‘butterfly bomb’ (or SD 2) smashes pavement.

Butterfly Bomb Poster c1943.

A ‘Butterfly Bomb’ (or Sprengbombe Dickwandig 2 kg or SD 2) c1943.

Relic shell of a WW2 ‘butterfly bomb’ bomblet from Grimsby; totally inert 1943.

Butterfly bombs were everywhere!

An INERT ‘Butterfly Bomb’ or Sprengbombe Dickwandig 2 kg or SD 2.

German butterfly bomb SD2

‘Butterfly bomb’ lodged in a hedge c1943.

The ‘Butterfly Bomb’ or Sprengbombe Dickwandig 2 kg or SD 2.

German markings on a wing of a butterfly bomb dropped on Grimsby on 14th June 1943.

Butterfly bomb wings from the Grimsby area raid on 14th June 1943

The Clockwork of a Type 67 Butterfly Bomb Fuze.

An original piece of a Butterfly Bomb dropped on the boundary of Grimsby and Cleethorpes in June 1943.

SD2 Butterfly Bomb (Field Grey with Red and Yellow Stripes).

A yellow Butterfly Bomb – not used on Grimsby (see description).

Butterfly Bomb arming spindles c1943