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Post by woodyz on Feb 6, 2014 10:41:08 GMT -7
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Post by Number5 on Feb 7, 2014 15:32:49 GMT -7
My back hurts just lookin' at all that. Diggin' the Garand and the 1911 tho...
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Post by USCGME2 on Feb 8, 2014 13:08:35 GMT -7
Why is the one grenade lighter in color?
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Post by garret on Feb 8, 2014 14:09:31 GMT -7
Why is the one grenade lighter in color? probably smoke rather than high explosive
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Post by Ceorlmann on Feb 8, 2014 16:07:35 GMT -7
I don't recall smokers being pineapple-shaped. If it really is a smoker then what're in the two left pouches?
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Post by kutkota on Feb 8, 2014 16:20:42 GMT -7
The far left looks like clusters or flares. Not positive but don't think the bottom grenade is smoke
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Post by woodyz on Feb 8, 2014 16:24:57 GMT -7
New Made Item: All US Ordnance items have color-coding to indicate the nature of the contents. Everyone is familiar with the red tip for M1 .30 caliber tracer bullets. Yellow is the code color for high explosive ordnance, and at the beginning of World War Two, the familiar Mk II “pineapple” hand grenade was painted entirely yellow. You can see this in period photographs. Not long into the war, the paint scheme was changed to an olive drab body with a small yellow ring at the top. The armorers of the great HBO miniseries THE PACIFIC (supplied by IMA) paid such close attention to detail that you can see the Marines on Guadalcanal using the early yellow-coded grenades. IMA is pleased to offer the Mk II dummy grenade in the early yellow high-explosive color code. www.ima-usa.com/us-mk-ii-pineapple-hand-grenade-pacific-theatre-configuration.htmlThe caption to the picture I posted said it was a WWII Radio Parachutist (sp) pack. So based on the above the bottom is more than likely a yellow one and the rest green, just using up some older ordinance.
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Post by USCGME2 on Feb 8, 2014 16:34:53 GMT -7
I wonder how many of those pieces of "fruit" are still around? I always wanted to chuck one of those but, never got the chance
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Post by woodyz on Feb 8, 2014 16:41:14 GMT -7
I wonder how many of those pieces of "fruit" are still around? I always wanted to chuck one of those but, never got the chance OK! So here is my real world advice. Use in tight and/or enclosed spaces = good. Throwing toward the target on the ground = not worth the weight to carry. Just my .02
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Post by woodyz on Feb 8, 2014 16:58:08 GMT -7
Pineapple went out at end part of Korea, they were made that way to aid in gripping it, used smokeless powder, was heavy and not real effective. Later this one came along en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M67_grenade#M69_Practice_Grenadecomp B, 14 oz, better reliability better effective zone. But my .02 remains the same.
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Post by thywar on Feb 8, 2014 18:01:45 GMT -7
They should have continued the use so they could be gripped better.. how do I know.. because I saw a trainee drop one in the bottom of the grenade pit with an instructor next to him.. the instructor bailed and the trainee (and how he did it I have no idea because the bottom of the pit had about 5" of rain) reached down and threw it about 25 feet and ducked.. Everyone lived but the instructor had a new pucker factor..
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Post by missasip on Feb 8, 2014 19:30:00 GMT -7
They should have continued the use so they could be gripped better.. how do I know.. because I saw a trainee drop one in the bottom of the grenade pit with an instructor next to him.. the instructor bailed and the trainee (and how he did it I have no idea because the bottom of the pit had about 5" of rain) reached down and threw it about 25 feet and ducked.. Everyone lived but the instructor had a new pucker factor.. And the trainee a lot less azz..... Jimmy
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Post by thywar on Feb 8, 2014 19:41:27 GMT -7
Actually once the grenade went off I came out from the bunker (I was responsible for counting and accounting for each grenade) and walked the instructor away from the trainee. Told him to cross the road and have a smoke. The trainee was mine. I think the trainee might have wished I'd let the instructor have at him
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Post by angelhelp on Feb 8, 2014 20:42:15 GMT -7
Ask Ceorlmann about his own grenade tale... it highlights one of my parenting failures since I have the skill that he lacked.
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