Thread: 303 vs wet blanket ?

Originally Posted by Beavis

I briefly had a New Zealand Home Guard manual which mentioned this in the section about preparing buildings for defensive positions. It did mention hanging wet blankets in the windows and covering the openings with chicken wire to keep grenades out.

New Zealand Home Guard Manual 1941, "Page 195. Section C iii A wet blanket hung in front of a window so that it sways gently will stop a bullet."

Bugger me! I suspect that was copied, obviously without verifying, from one of the many UK manuals which were utilised in part to make up the NZ manual.