WW2 M10 Rocket Tube launchers

p51 · **Posted:** Thu Aug 24, 2023 1:56 pm

Richard W. wrote:

The one in the MAPS museum collection has some spots where the paint is worn off, and the texture there looks like what you see with resin impregnated cloth construction. Like an M1 helmet liner.

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Okay, that I'm willing to accept. But plastic in the way we know them today, didn't exist then. This was more resin, impregnated and wrapped into a weave. Even straight bakelight wouldn't have worked as it'd shattered from the launch.

Cvairwerks · **Posted:** Fri Aug 25, 2023 1:45 am

For that time period, both Micarta and Bakelite would have been considered to be plastic. If you can see a weave or pattern in it, then it’s Micarta.

Shay · **Posted:** Fri Aug 25, 2023 5:22 pm

Closer up view for reference of a CBI P-38 w/ M10 launcher:

Caption: "P-38J-10-LO Lightning 42-67842 with bazooka rocket tubes of the 459th Fighter Squadron, pilot Major Willard Webb"

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