Item:
ONSV7278

Original U.S. Korean War M12 Antitank Practice Mine with Carrier

Item Description

Original Item: Only One Available. The antitank practice mine M12 (M12A1, M12B1) is used for training personnel in the precautions and proper methods to be observed in the care, handling, laying and arming, booby trapping, and disarming of the high explosive heavy antitank mine M15.

The M12 practice mine is a flat, cylindrical, steel casing externally similar to the high explosive mine M15. The mine is shipped empty, with arming plug M4 assembled over the primary fuze well, but without primary or secondary fuzes. It is to be loaded with sand and fuzed in the field. The mine is inert, but explosive components will be found in the primary fuze, and if used, in the secondary fuze and activator. The arming plug has a steel shutter which moves from a side position to a center position as the setting knob is moved from SAFE through DANGER to ARMED position. A wire carrying handle is provided. Mine is painted blue, the color of US training munitions. The bottom is stenciled in white paint:

MINE, AT
HEAVY
PRACTICE
M12

It is also dated 4-53 placing its date of manufacture towards the end of the Korean War which was concluded with the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement on July 27, 1953.

Also included is the original steel transit case, complete with yellow painted stencils offered din very good condition.
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