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Nose Bag Booby Trap

Found on the Western Front

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Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson
Jan 09, 2026
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On 20 August 1917, the chief of staff of the German Second Army published a circular that described a new type of booby trap that British troops had placed in ‘no man’s land’.

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