816:(September 1940) The section digs for a huge bomb in the sewers beneath a risqué nightclub. Entertained by Mickey, a dancer stranded at the club, and by Copping's replacement, Sapper Baines, the section eats and drinks the club's wares and is in no hurry to find the bomb. Mickey and Lance Corporal Salt begin a casual affair. Later, the section's rankers assist Salt in smuggling Mickey clear of the nightclub, where (due to the UXB) civilians are not supposed to be. After the bomb is located, Brian discovers that it is equipped with the new type 50, a hypersensitive fuse designed to detonate when the usual defuzing procedures are employed. The boffins have just developed a counter-tactic, however, and Brian is the first to try it: the BD liquid discharger, which forces a mixture of alcohol, benzene and salt into the fuse that causes the capacitors in the fuse to discharge their stored electricity harmlessly, thus neutralising the fuse . When Susan comes up to London, Brian takes her out for a night of dining and dancing. As a thank-you for preserving his stock, the silversmith next door to the nightclub presents a small loving cup to 347 Section.
1215:(15-22 February 2001), rather than the drama series. However, many of the dramatic incidents shown in the series turn out to be based on actual cases. For example, the incident with one bomb in a schoolyard and another in a garden that cost Ken Machin his life is covered on pages 78 and 79. The liquid-oxygen fire in "Dead Letter" while Ash was defusing the Type Y fuse is covered on pages 152 and 153. Chapter 8 covers the Grimsby Raid of June 13, 1943, which forms the basis for "Butterfly Winter" and includes the development of the string-and-pulley system for moving the SD2s about, the bombs in the bean field, and the inspiration for Sergeant James being blown off the stone wall and breaking his arm. And pages 187 and 188 recount the inspiration for "The Pier" and Brian Ash's serious injuries.
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696:(September 1940) Brian is reprimanded, first by Captain Francis for a newspaper story about the section that the 2IC believes injures the dignity of the service, then by Major Luckhurst for his reckless behaviour when defuzing a low-priority bomb. Brian becomes acquainted with a new officer, Ken Machin, who is assigned to his tutelage and billeted with him. Ken introduces Brian to his wife. Brian and Ken find they are to be sent on a hastily developed new course on bomb disposal.
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883:(December 1940) While the section works on a bomb at a gas works, Lance Corporal Salt wanders off, hears cries for help, and finds a young woman trapped beside a second bomb with a time fuse . Without Brian's knowledge or permission, Salt and several other men take a great risk and manhandle the bomb into the
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