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Anti personnel land mine (not a anti tank mine). Once a grunt triggered the device by walking on or near it, the mine jumped into the air (hopefully above the crotch, in the minds of most infantrymen) and detonated.

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Probably from the 1930's cartoon, the sex symbol "Betty Boop." The "bouncing" came from the way the bomb skipped across the water.

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