Large common misconception in MkII “Pineapple” grenades is the “purpose” of the segmentation in the bodies of the grenade. Despite popular (and erroneous) belief, they were not segmented to aid in fragmentation during detention, but instead they were designed to provide better grip of the body, if the weather conditions were wet, or the terrain was muddy.
Interesting,I have one of the post war trainers I just realized from this. from an army surplus but the fuse looks like your replica & not like the post war one on here but the spoon is different from all 3😅 Frankenstein one maybe idk.
Fascinating discussion, so thanks. Your discussion about the spoon designs brings back something I discovered for myself long ago. In the late 1950s and early ’60s my father was stationed in France and there was still a lot of ordnance to be found in places, including US hand grenade fuses with the wrap-around spoon design, and which I became familiar with (don’t ask how 🙄 ). Later in the US, including during basic training, the one thing I noticed was that the fuses had the hook style spoons. At the time I assumed that the change had perhaps been made to make ejecting the spoon from the fuse more reliable.
Large common misconception in MkII “Pineapple” grenades is the “purpose” of the segmentation in the bodies of the grenade. Despite popular (and erroneous) belief, they were not segmented to aid in fragmentation during detention, but instead they were designed to provide better grip of the body, if the weather conditions were wet, or the terrain was muddy.
Does it come in the early war yellow?
I see a lot of pictures with the grenade attached to the harness. How as this done?
Interesting,I have one of the post war trainers I just realized from this. from an army surplus but the fuse looks like your replica & not like the post war one on here but the spoon is different from all 3😅 Frankenstein one maybe idk.
Fascinating discussion, so thanks.
Your discussion about the spoon designs brings back something I discovered for myself long ago. In the late 1950s and early ’60s my father was stationed in France and there was still a lot of ordnance to be found in places, including US hand grenade fuses with the wrap-around spoon design, and which I became familiar with (don’t ask how 🙄 ). Later in the US, including during basic training, the one thing I noticed was that the fuses had the hook style spoons. At the time I assumed that the change had perhaps been made to make ejecting the spoon from the fuse more reliable.
Early gernades were yellow and came in kits where you had to put in the powder and fuse
Lot of soldiers got in trouble making fire works
does this count as autism?
Seen your product at Reading, a 10/10 item. Hope to see you again this year - 26YDHRG.