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All kinds of explosions in the works of W. E. Johns[]

  • Thunder Over Germany - Biggles and co. bomb a fuel depot
  • Sergeant Bigglesworth C.I.D.
    • Chapter 8. Biggles lands his Mosquito into a minefield at El Zufra.
  • Sergeant Bigglesworth C.I.D.
    • Chapter 16. Biggles tosses two grenades at the enemy base in the Sanseviera and sets it alight.
  • Sergeant Bigglesworth C.I.D.
    • Chapter 17. Grindler steps into a dell where landmines had been stacked.
  • Biggles' Second Case
    • Chapter 3. The Tern is torpedoed.
    • Chapter 5. Approaching a submarine base, the aircraft is rocked by a violent blast which "striking the under-surfaces of the aircraft, caused it to yaw wildly". It was a booby-trap triggered by a wild hog.
    • Chapter 5. Biggles suspects a can is a booby trap and shoots at it, triggering "a vicious tearing explosion".
    • Chapters 7, 12, 14. The U-517 is attacked three times with depth charges. Near misses which caused damage.
    • Chapter 15. Biggles explores the U-517 and discovers it has been booby-trapped. Escapes just in time as the submarine blows up.
  • Biggles Gets His Men
    • Chapter 12. Major Cardwell has planted a booby trap bomb in the workshop hut in Prince Ling Soo's camp. It explodes when so of Ling Soo's men enter it.
  • Another Job for Biggles
    • Bertie blows up the dam at El Moab.
  • The Renegade
    • Biggles blows up Vandor's cache of weapons, ammunition and fuel.
    • Biggles blows up a truck which was loaded with munitions
    • During egress, Biggles throws two explosive charges at his pursuers.
  • Biggles Follows On. Chapter 14. The base at Kratsen is blown up by Gimlet and co. A lot of secondary explosions. "The earth erupted in a dozen places at once."
  • Biggles in the Gobi. Chapter 9. Algy blows up Ma Chang's stock of dynamite before the latter can use them to demolish the caves at Nan-hu.
  • Biggles Cuts It Fine. Chapter 9. Algy lands in a bay which has been mined. The resulting explosion lifts up the Sunderland and beaches it on a shelf of rock.
  • Biggles Cuts It Fine. Chapter 13. A Russian submarine blows up after striking a mine which it itself had laid earlier on.
  • Biggles Foreign Legionnaire. Chapter 14. Kurdish tribesmen set fire to the camp of the secret squadron. The flames ignited the bombs kept in a wooden hut.
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