Frag Out! WW2 Hand Grenades

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Here we examine the main types of Allied and Aix fragmentation grenades used in WW2, from the Mills Bomb to the Potato Masher and the Red Devil.
Dr. Mark Felton FRHistS, FRSA is a well-known British historian, the author of 22 non-fiction books, including bestsellers 'Zero Night' and 'Castle of the Eagles', both currently being developed into movies in Hollywood. In addition to writing, Mark also appears regularly in television documentaries around the world, including on The History Channel, Netflix, National Geographic, Quest, American Heroes Channel and RMC Decouverte. His books have formed the background to several TV and radio documentaries. More information about Mark can be found at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fe...
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@MarkFeltonProductions Месяц назад

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@Tjalve70 Месяц назад

13:40 "It contains a charge of 60 grams, or 21 ounces of TNT". I assume that is supposed to be 2.1 ounces. Not 21.

@yaakovelbrujo1731 Месяц назад

Could you do a video about Brazil in Monte Cassino amd Monte Castelo in Italy? Never seen a content about it here and your amazing knowledge about Ww2 would be AWESOME talking about it! Congratulations for your amazing job and research Mark! You re the BEST

@paddyjoe1884 Месяц назад

First thou shall pull the holy pin & then count to 3. Thou shalt not count 2, except 2 proceed 2 3. Thou shalt count 4 & 5 is right out. Once thou count 3 lobbit the holy hand grenade at thy enemy, who being very naughty in thy presence shall snuff it, forever & ever amen

@danepatterson8107 Месяц назад

How common was the German fragmentation sleeve for the potato masher type hand grenade? I've seen a sleeve designed to go over the warhead made of a thin metal in a waffle-like pattern.

@chriskleinbach-vd5ch Месяц назад

Ja ich don't trust the grenade ich glober der garande ist dangerous very dangerous my God old boy less we forget our safety regulations word homie 😖🇺🇸.

@SourVodka Месяц назад

A young Army officer was severely wounded in the head by a grenade , but the only visible, permanent injury was that both of his ears were amputated. Since his remaining hearing was sufficient, he remained in the Army. Many years later he eventually rose to the rank of Major General. He was, however, very sensitive about his appearance. One day the General was interviewing three servicemen who were candidates for his headquarters staff. The first was a Squadron Leader pilot from Air Force , and it was a great interview. At the end of the interview the General asked him, 'Do you notice anything different about me?' The young officer answered, 'Why, yes, Sir, I couldn't help but notice that you have no ears.' The general was displeased with his lack of tact and threw him out. The second interview was with a Naval Lieutenant Commander, and he was even better. The General then asked him the same question, 'Do you notice anything different about me?' He replied sheepishly, 'Well, sir, you have no ears.' The General threw him out also. The third interview was with an Infantryman and a commando qualified Major. The General liked this guy, and went ahead with the same question, 'Do you notice anything different about me?' To his surprise the Major said, 'Yes, sir, you wear contact lenses.' The General was very impressed and thought, 'What an incredibly observant officer, and he didn't mention my ears.' He asked, 'Major, how do you know I wear contacts?' 'Well, sir,' the officer replied, 'It's pretty hard to wear glasses with no f******g ears.'

@BrianMurfitt Месяц назад

That is one lame joke, inappropriate and offensive to those poor innocent soldiers who were seriously maimed or lost their lives, due to the handling of grenades! 🙄🤨

@MasterMalrubius Месяц назад

@@BrianMurfittLikely the type of home they would tell each other.

@mikebrase5161 Месяц назад

@@BrianMurfittyou sound like somebody who almost served. I spent twenty years in the Infantry and 3 years in combat. That joke is hilarious.

@astralclub5964 Месяц назад

@@BrianMurfittYou’re not a military guy, are you? Believe me. This joke would crack up any group of uniforms. Now, if a civy told the joke, then emergency dental surgery would result!

@Penekamp11 Месяц назад

That’s funny my man.

@E7DMG Месяц назад

My late father was injured at Dunkirk by a German Potato masher, he was 21. My mother was still picking bits of cordite out of his back right up to when he died at 72!

@mattheide2775 Месяц назад

Your Father was a tough man to shrug off a grenade. If it wasn't for men like him we would have suffered a terrible fate.❤

@aleksazunjic9672 Месяц назад

Him, and you by extension 😁, had a very good luck Germans did not use one of those pineapple grenades full of fragments.

@pixelpatter01 Месяц назад

Cordite?

@Mjdeben Месяц назад

Cordite?

@lexiheart6558 Месяц назад

Yeah shrapnel never really goes away

@generalkenobi9782 Месяц назад

“You were killed by a grenade. Watch out for the grenade danger indicator.”

@patrickt4 Месяц назад

Ring of Steel on Veteran in a nutshell

@MrDeckeric Месяц назад

Once the pin is pulled Mr grenade is not our friend

@fluttzkrieg4392 Месяц назад

NO, NOT WAW ON VETERAN, OH GOD

@markdexter6338 Месяц назад

"You're suppose to throw the grenade, NOT THE PIN!"

@Arindam_Gaming Месяц назад

Call of Duty Modern Warfare Tip

@oldtop4682 Месяц назад

Getting low to the ground or behind shelter after throwing a grenade was important! My father was hit by multiple pieces of a grenade thrown by one of his men in WWII. He always said he didn't duck fast enough lol. These fragments would work their way out via his skin, and in locations far from where they entered. The larger piece was identifiable as part of a pineapple and came out his shoulder in 1972ish.

@scrappydoo7887 Месяц назад

That's pretty crazy. I'm glad that he didn't end up with many infections from all of the shrapnel. 👍

@DennyBass Месяц назад

I know it may sound weird, but tossing real frags in combat is one of the coolest things I’ve ever done.

@scrappydoo7887 Месяц назад

Nope I don't think that is weird at all.

@843SouthernPride Месяц назад

For when "Fuk You" just doesn't get the point across, the M67 is great for bringing forth the scunion.

@CL-vz6ch Месяц назад

*flex*

@memirandawong Месяц назад

As always....It's true that giving is better than receiving.

@Iron_Wyvern Месяц назад

The potato masher will always be the coolest looking one

@michaelbruns449 Месяц назад

Of course German, able to be thrown the furthest and probably more accurately.

@andrewtodd5919 Месяц назад

The potato masher though was not the most produced grenade in Germany

@sirbughunter9972 Месяц назад

He said it is the coolest one. At what point did he or anyone else for that matter, say the potatoe masher was the most produced?

@jerryjeromehawkins1712 Месяц назад

At a military show years ago... they had a display setup where, for a dollar, you could throw both a German stick grenade and an American pineapple across a field. I was shocked at how much further I could throw the "potato masher" compared to the pineapple. It was explained to me that the handle acted as a fulcrum before being thrown... helping to carry the grenade an impressive distance. It was all for charity... you should have seen the line of people!

@clvrswine Месяц назад

@@sirbughunter9972 *Potato, not potatoe, smart-guy. To answer your dumb comment: no one, at any point was so ignorant as to use "potatoe masher" in any comment. That was just you. Feel superior much?

@seegurke93 Месяц назад

M24 is cool but the Main GERMAN Handgrenade was the Eihandgranate, Egg Handgrenade M39. Its not as recognizable as the M24 with the long stick, but more than double were made. Sad that you dont cover this. Guess its the same as Spitfire vs Hurricane in the battle of france or britain. Without the Hurricane the UK would have lost. But spitfire was just more recognizable and newer... However M39 > M24 and thats a fact.

@magnusfranzonuvebrant9519 Месяц назад

@Maltor95 Месяц назад

@seegurke93 thats what I thought. I was quiet surpised that Doctor Felton didnt mentioned the M39 grenade.

@apacifistmachinegunner669 Месяц назад

Fallschirmjäger loved them

@benx6264 Месяц назад

came here to mention that too. I guess "Rule of Cool" wins again

@abzzeus Месяц назад

When the pin is out Mr Grenade is no longer our friend

@paavobergmann4920 Месяц назад

"GamerDude82 tried to push the pin back in"

@thEannoyingE Месяц назад

I love that they used baseball as an example when training back then, through Vietnam. Probably even today too.

@yeticonfettis Месяц назад

no, we just throw grenades

@jimbevske Месяц назад

Yeah, that's how I was taught in 1979. But the grenade is much heavier and the amount of strength needed much more to get it the same distance.

@jerichofalls8236 Месяц назад

Great way to blow out a shoulder lmao.

@DJSockmonkeyMusic Месяц назад

@@jimbevskeI trained on the M26A2 and was coming in to say "they are really heavy, and stupid hard to throw well"

@ugahdugha Месяц назад

Still did as of 2018

@patavinity1262 Месяц назад

"The seven second fuse was found to be too long, and the Germans often threw them back. Thereafter they were fitted with a four second fuse" That would have made for a nasty surprise for any German soldier who wasnt aware of this change.

@BrutalEnough Месяц назад

In my town the kids often played with ordonance they found after the war. They were well instructed with german weapons but did not know that allied grenades used shorter fuzes. One kid was killed by a russian hand grenade because of this...

@squeguinquack2570 Месяц назад

@@BrutalEnough don’t mean to doubt you but I’m pretty sure Stalin would’ve confiscated all of the German weapons after the war instead of letting civilians have them

@BrutalEnough Месяц назад

@@squeguinquack2570 lots of lost weapons and unexploded ordonance littered the area! You could still find equipment until the 70s! (and in very care cases until today) children did find ot and playwd with it. Many have received pre military training in the HJ, so they know in theory how to use a hand grenade...except thazvrussian fuses were shorter! ps: also at every construction site there is a chance to find USAF bombs in the ground....

@nightowl9519 Месяц назад

@@squeguinquack2570I think you underestimate just how much ordinance a major war leaves laying around.

@tkeo12 Месяц назад

Today we've got a package from an old viewer from Germany. Let's see what is inside..

@raymondtonns2521 Месяц назад

if it is long and narrow call the bomb squad

@ariane11970 Месяц назад

You should be in hurry, there's only 5 sec. to explain ... 😁 Greets from Germany. 👋

@ourlifeinwyoming4654 Месяц назад

My Dad still has two type 97 grenades - inert of course - that his father mailed home from Guam.

@binaway Месяц назад

At the beginning of the long march the German guards dad had were each issued 2 stick grenades. All but one put them in their packs, un-fused. One guards, a bully, fused his grenades and stuffed the handles into his belt, in front of his stomach. Dads group were caught up in the USAAF bombing of Regensburg. After the raid they found that guards body. Both grenades had detonated and blown his guts out. Nobody, even the other guards, missed him.

@Jordan-rb28 Месяц назад

Love you Mark, you're one of the golden channels on this platform right now. You are singlehandedly educating generations of people with better teachings than often even found in schools and universities.

@demef758 Месяц назад

But Mark is falling FAR behind today's university in his Gender Awareness studies!

@oliverreedslovechild Месяц назад

@@demef758 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@timelordtardis Месяц назад

No mention of the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch 😁

@raymondtonns2521 Месяц назад

what is it?

@aka99 Месяц назад

Watch Monty Phyton Holy Crail and you will know it.

@michaelmorley7719 Месяц назад

Details can be found in Armaments 2:9-21 (KJV).

@ytcensorhack1876 Месяц назад

"And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, 'O Lord, bless this thy hand grenade, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.' And the Lord did grin. And the people did feast upon the lambs, and sloths, and carp, and anchovies, and orangutans, and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats, and large chulapas...

@TheDarkWizard666 12 дней назад

Fnv

@LJWalter78 Месяц назад

The German potato masher is an iconic classic. Forever to be associated with WW2 Axis forces.

@timothyhouse1622 Месяц назад

It wasn't actually Germany's primary hand grenade though.

@timothyhouse1622 Месяц назад

The potato masher, or stielhandgranata, was NOT the main hand grenade of the German Army. It shows up most in photos because it is more "photogenic" and looks great for propaganda. The actual MAIN hand grenade for the Wehrmacht was the Model 39 Eihandgranate, which was produced in FAR greater numbers.

@clvrswine Месяц назад

Yeah but @sirbughunter9972 corrected us all with an all new spelling "potatoe"!

@bwilliams463 Месяц назад

@@clvrswine Must be Dan Quayle's account. I hope that joke is not completely forgotten.

@franzenders344 Месяц назад

My understanding is a ratio of about 55/45, but yes, the potato masher was not the most common. Also, no mention of the fragmentation sleeve or the rifle grenades.

@hyperturbotechnomike Месяц назад

@@clvrswine Stielhandgranat"A"

@dangvorbei5304 Месяц назад

And here I was thinking Signal just cut out all of the guys carrying egg grenades because they weren't photogenic.

@norwich_hema_society Месяц назад

My grandfather was a Burma veteran, and he told me that the Mills Bomb also has an "instantaneous" fuse, which would detonate immediately. These were used in booby traps, the idea being the target trips a wire and pulls the pin, and the explosion was immediate.

@paavobergmann4920 Месяц назад

Or you leave them behind when retreating as "loot"....

@michaelbevan3285 Месяц назад

the stick grenade could also be set to instant explosion and could be used as a booby trap. the same fuse could be used to set off standard Teller mines and Pioneer blasting charges.

@akyukon Месяц назад

As an OR RN working at a VA several years ago, I was talking to a vietnam vet prior to surgery and he said he was hit several times with shrapnel in combat, most of the fragments were left in. He said periodically, years later a few more superficial pieces worked their way to the skin where he just picked them out.

@Jreb1865 29 дней назад

I've done the same thing. Got a piece out 2 years ago...

@ColumbiaB Месяц назад

I recall reading remarks on grenades by a WWII U.S. Army veteran. He noted that the German “potato-masher” type generated much less shrapnel, and its principal effect was the concussion of its direct blast. For that reason, he said, the potato-masher was a useful assault weapon; soldiers could throw the grenade at an enemy position, and then follow it in a pretty aggressive charge. “In contrast, with our fragmentation grenades,” he continued, “we’d throw them, and then have to dive for cover to escape the shrapnel from our own weapons!”

@franzenders344 Месяц назад

Yes, though the Germans did have a fragmentation sleeve for both the stick and egg (more common) grenades.

@tavish4699 Месяц назад

the german grenades had also an extra frag sleeve that you could push over the grenade making it a defensive grenade

@mitchmatthews6713 Месяц назад

You and the Enfield look good together, sir! Cheers, Mark!

@charlesphillips4575 Месяц назад

Note that the Russian F1 can be found with fuses from zero to 13 seconds. The time is marked on the fuse, but the marking is inside the grenade when assembled. So be very careful to ensure you know what is fitted to a grenade, the zero delay is for booby traps and throwing is not advised.

@dima.jiharev Месяц назад

What happens if you throw it?

@Ronald-qs3ke Месяц назад

@@dima.jiharev your internal organs become external organs

@Lappmogel Месяц назад

@@dima.jiharev you don't

@scrappydoo7887 Месяц назад

@@dima.jiharevas soon as the spoon leaves the body so does your arm and probably many other bits of you

@Stickman2030 Месяц назад

The fun-loving U.S. Navy Seals reportedly would sneak into Viet Cong supply caches and replace some of the multi-second-fused Soviet-made grenade fuses with the zero-second fuses, with the intention of demoralizing the VC who survived.

@PassportToPimlico Месяц назад

According to Military History Visualised, the Germans made far more M39 egg grenades than stick grenades during WW2.

@suzyqualcast6269 Месяц назад

So, loads not thrown but left boxed for Russian Metal Detectors to find more recently

@CamBridge-ii9mu Месяц назад

Of course the Italian grenade has the most fabulous style.

@Thisisnolongerajoke Месяц назад

This is why Australian soldiers with cricket skills were valued

@Amac1825 Месяц назад

The fact the potatoe masher in its original form isnt even a fragmentation type will always blow my mind.

@michaelbevan3285 Месяц назад

they had a frag sleeve that slid over the top of the stick grenade head. they learned from fighting in Russia that blast alone wasn't good enough.

@MrSmokincodz Месяц назад

One of my buddies was hit by a pineapple grenade in iraq. ill never forget, he was just peppered everywhere and it shattered his leg. He got two purple hearts for it. Deadly little devices for sure. Love your content Dr Felton.

@M167A1 Месяц назад

The practical application of baseball.

@JZsBFF Месяц назад

Except that a baseball can't take one's hand off... I think.

@johncmitchell4941 Месяц назад

IMO too heavy to compare to a baseball. In '70 we were advised to throw a hand grenade like a football. Shorter distance and the arcing trajectory made sense and I found it much easier to place my throws. 30yd or so would be my limit.

@patavinity1262 Месяц назад

Or cricket.

@patavinity1262 Месяц назад

@@johncmitchell4941It would have been interesting to compare the American soldiers' throwing ability in WW2 compared to the Germans or Japanese, say, to see what the effect of having practiced throwing sports might be.

@johncmitchell4941 Месяц назад

@@patavinity1262 Imaging a cricket bowler and a horse shoe pitcher facing off ...

@Maine307 Месяц назад

baseball was the American pastime, every kid played ball, in some way growing up.. so engineers new to keep it as close to the soze and shape they could, and the GI's could lob it . I met a WWII Marine during the battle of IwoWon the MOH for tossing back grenade uphill after they were tossed own durring the attck. .. we also threw rocks interningled with grenades to keep the supplies up and fool the bad dudes,,..it helped especially when they though we were throwing greandes..etc.. milking em is never advised. love this video!

@WALTERBROADDUS Месяц назад

Was.... You don't see any kids playing baseball anymore. ⚾

@trainnerd3029 Месяц назад

4:49 that looks like a Hollywood “bad guy” if I ever saw one!!

@78bollox Месяц назад

The Italian one is the equivalent of an Alpha Romeo grenade with it's functionality & simplicity 😂 🇮🇹

@dennisyoung4631 Месяц назад

“Known as the red devil, it…”

@mlugin8050 Месяц назад

the intro sound is always great. a sign of quality and consistency. relaxed, and captivating reporting. the condensed and spot on reporting is always organically in a great timing. one of the few channels i enjoy since years. thanks Mark Felton. greetings from Switzerland

@gate7clamp Месяц назад

6:03 that explains that scene and letters from Iwo Jima I didn’t know why they hit the grenade on top of their head.

@Shinzon23 Месяц назад

Yeah it's a sign there industrial base was a dog s*** awful if their fuses were that bad

@ganiniii Месяц назад

My favourite grenade is the italian. What a design! Doesn't even seem harmful. Italians do have their own way of doing things.

@olivere5497 Месяц назад

Im trying to think up a joke involving a very combat shy, vain yet hansome Italian, covered in medals and a grenade.

@jeffgraham4549 Месяц назад

Italian went crazy with their landmine designs as well.

@aleksazunjic9672 Месяц назад

It was not a very good design. Italians tried to make "perfect" grenade that would explode on contact, without ability to be thrown back. What they actually made was a grenade that would often not explode.

@olivere5497 Месяц назад

@@aleksazunjic9672 ahh theres the joke, 'even their grenades were cowards and refused orders!'

@aleksazunjic9672 Месяц назад

@@olivere5497 🤕

@ClarenceCochran-ne7du Месяц назад

Excellent Descriptions and breakdown on how the various grenades were used, mechanism of action, and pros and cons, Dr. Felton.

@petergugganig3225 Месяц назад

The Stielhandgranate is more popular but the Eihandgranate 39 was produced in greater numbers. You could have also metioned that there was a optional fragmentation sleeve for the Stielhandgranate.

@jeffgraham4549 Месяц назад

I'll be sharing this video with junior EOD techs. Great info here!

@foabmoab Месяц назад

The guy who designed the Mills bomb lived on a street close to where I sometimes walk. Randomly stumbled across that fact one day when I saw an information board in a park.

@LoremIpsum1970 Месяц назад

The Mills bomb was originally designed in Belgium, the British perfected it.

@foabmoab Месяц назад

@@LoremIpsum1970 Bill Mills was the guy who designed it from the ground up, though, wasn't it?

@LoremIpsum1970 Месяц назад

@@foabmoab No, not really. Essentially, Mills changed the shape from being round; added the shoulders for the pin and changed the flyoff lever...(1) Mills did not really so much invent the Mills grenade as improve it (albeit significantly) from an original design by a Belgian Officer, Leon Roland. Roland was actually captured by the Germans and a mutual friend *bought his idea and William together* in 1914. (2) it's named after its British *inventor*, William Mills, who *drew inspiration* from the Belgian Roland grenade. (3) William Mills, who had settled in Edgbaston and owned engineering factories in the suburbs, *accepted commissions* to provide a safer model resulting in the standard 'Mills Bomb' grenade. (4) Mills was *inspired* by the earlier work of a Belgian Army Captain, Léon Roland who, upon seeing the Mills Bomb, engaged Mills in a patent lawsuit.

@foabmoab Месяц назад

@@LoremIpsum1970 Ah. The more you know, hah.

@eltenda Месяц назад

I trained with the mod 35 even in the 90's back in italy 🇮🇹 😅

@ThePerfectRed Месяц назад

Actually, Germany used more "Eierhandgranate" conventional round fragmentation grenades than stick grenades. But of course they are less iconic and thus non-existant in movies.

@richardstephens5570 Месяц назад

In the movie "Downfall" Grawitz suicides his family with two egg grenades.

@masahige2344 Месяц назад

Japan did use numerous models of rifle grenade launcher as well, including a finned adaptor that screwed into the same threading on the Type 91 used for the Type 89 propellant canister, fired by spigot launcher. The Type 91 'grenade system' was conceived as the 'do-everything' grenade, being seamlessly deployable at three different ranges by hand, rifle spigot launcher, or discharger. This replaced the Type 10, which was only used by hand or smoothbore discharger. There was also the simplified Type 3 spigot launcher that used a modified Type 99-style grenade, the Type 100 gas-operated rifle grenade launcher, firing the basic Type 99 hand grenade, and the Type 2, licensed from the German Schiessbecher. There were also a number of field expedient designs made to fire the Type 89 discharger grenade, notably the Sho 19 'Burma Model' cup launcher and one based on a Type 89 cup and a cut-down Type 38 rifle. To say nothing of the numerous other late-war anti-tank grenades, ceramic grenades, and Chinese models produced at Mukden arsenal!

@suzyqualcast6269 Месяц назад

I on a family Canvas Holidays camping trip to near Royan (Phare de la Coubre site), in 72 - found the area surrounding was infested with bunkers of all types. What got my then youthful attention were two roadside ammo bunkers. Minimal stuffing of the two ways into each led to the discovery of a wonderland of mainly blown all ammo types. Amongst these were a certain brass round, live and blown,, but also a stick grenade handle, minus it's explosive head but complete with it's ceramic pull within the handle, held together with but string. When the bomb squad called round to out house in 76 to remove stuff after I'd blown 2.5 fingers off they not only took the live stuff, but depressingly also took the stick granate remnant as well, which was additionally depressing.

@frednugent2310 22 дня назад

Enormous respect for your grandfather Dr. Felton. I've read of the extreme hardships of the troops fighting in Burma. They not only had to fight the harsh jungle conditions and Japanese but also sickness and starvation. It's amazing what they endured and overcame.

@aaron6178 Месяц назад

Got to admit, the day when I qualified on grenades was my favorite of all the weapon systems I used in the army. There's something so old school about lobbing a nasty nade. We had to aim for windows of mock buildings and such. The bearings and dirt rain down on your helmet. So rad. As described on the label.

@juhokuusisto9339 Месяц назад

There was a fragmentation sleeve for the M24. And the Soviets used RGD-33's and RG-42's too.

@paistinlasta1805 Месяц назад

2:20 You should ALWAYS hold the grenade in a manner where the handle is against your palm, not against your fingers, so as to prevent accidently releasing it, the spring is quite strong. Also the pin comes off more easily if you twist it first ;)

@Matthew-ix1mq Месяц назад

Hmm, you neglected to mention the Holy Handgrenade, yea and verily it is written

@MasterMalrubius Месяц назад

Great summary of the various grenades. Most I already knew but Dr. Felton always has a couple bits I didn’t know.

@hangin-in-thereawesome4245 Месяц назад

Once again Dr. Felton has shown me something I did not know! Please don't stop your great videos!

@deanbuss1678 Месяц назад

Thanks!

@neilwilson5785 Месяц назад

The critical fault of the Italian grenade was that it needed a Brass Band to operate it. That is at least 25 people.

@scrappydoo7887 Месяц назад

Lol that's god level dad joking

@simonmcowan6874 Месяц назад

I was a tavr EOD royal engineer, we had to clear grenade and mortar ranges in the south of England used as practice ranges for the Canadian and Americans prior to the d day landings, lots and lots of half detonated stuff was left behind, the fields after the war, given back to the farmers were littered with these, later newer tractors were ploughing them up, loosing ploughs, we cleared acres of them with a big bang at the end of the day, I was part of 33 engineer regiment a long time ago.

@wweminehead5458 Месяц назад

Something different awesome Dr F. Thanks as always

@user-gw3us8yz6x Месяц назад

Very comprehensive. Thank you, Doctor.

@Stu.Henney Месяц назад

Excellent Burma knowledge from your Grand pa... Good on the Pongos !!! 👍

@alvaromaharg9768 Месяц назад

The technical aspects were very well explained. If Dr. Felton was based in the US, he could probably saunter down to a gun range and give us a practical demonstration.

@LoremIpsum1970 Месяц назад

...if he had all the paperwork, a single grenade would cost 200USD for just the ATF serial number...

@GunDrummer Месяц назад

I always thought the potato masher seemed unreasonably huge for a soldier to carry around

@scrappydoo7887 Месяц назад

As far as I know they were usually on loops on the hips or the back of the belt . I bet they were inconvenient though

@royalhero4608 Месяц назад

Don't let that get in the way of looking totally badass with a few hanging out of your belt!

@waltie1able Месяц назад

In the Vietnam era we had the baseball type grenades. By the way, the Germans, also, had what they called the egg grenades

@bertram_oredrock Месяц назад

I had the opportunity to throw one live grenade in US Marine Bootcamp in 1974. Truly an experience I've never forgotten.

@brockshields9336 Месяц назад

The Germans developed a cast iron sleeve for the potato masher, making it an effective fragmentary grenade.

@user-si7ve1lf3o Месяц назад

I really enjoy your videos ! They are very informative and interesting! Please keep them coming

@tsmgguy Месяц назад

The grenade is held with the spoon pressed into the palm of the hand, rather than with the fingers. This minimizes the chances of accidental release.

@stevecastro1325 Месяц назад

Watching your episodes are always a blast!

@vaughnmojado8637 Месяц назад

Even though I hate war, I was quite fascinated by this. I don’t have much knowledge about grenades. I don’t think I could’ve named where any were from except for our pineapple and the German Potato Masher. Thank you.

@waynesarf8065 Месяц назад

As I remember it, when I was a child Grandpa Sarf and I were sitting on his elevated front porch and he was talking about the grenades the Germans used in the Great War, drawing a small sketch of the "potato masher" and a line descending from the end of the stick to indicate the friction cord pulled to activate it. Once he told me of himself and a few buddies from the 103rd Infantry (26th or "Yankee" Division) finding half a dozen Germans in a boat "washin' their faces" as he put it, until a comrade fired a rifle grenade into the boat.

@petercarter9034 Месяц назад

My grenade is one of my favourite bits of memorabilia they have always fascinated since a child I must have had a weird childhood lol

@scrappydoo7887 Месяц назад

I've always been fascinated by anything that goes bang or is used in combat so I guess we have a similarity of two somewhere along the way lol

@richardbonner2354 Месяц назад

I knew an InfantryMan.... He said, "There's three kinds o' fuzes; 3 second fuzes, 5 second fuzes, an' fek'd up fuzes." 🙂 Rick Bonner Pennsyltucky

@royalhero4608 Месяц назад

Grenades and landmines absolutely terrify me. It's one thing having some guy shooting at you, but another whole level having some little egg land next to you out of nowhere and taking your foot off

@av7610 Месяц назад

Any day with a new Dr Felton video is a good day!!!!

@larryjohnson7591 Месяц назад

That was a very interesting subject. Thanks Mark, I was intrigued.

@4urluvjones155 Месяц назад

My uncle was a 50 cal machine gunner in Pattons 3rd Army and during the battle of the bulge had a German grenade land in his foxhole and, very fortunately, it did not go off.

@marcmonnerat4850 Месяц назад

In Switzerland, we did use the HG43 (similar design to the Stielhandgranate 43) until the late nineties.

@dr.barrycohn5461 Месяц назад

You've covered all the bases with this one, thank you.

@ringbimmer Месяц назад

The Germans liked to put 6 explosive charges at the end of one stick. You can see examples in places like the war museum at Diekirch Luxemburg or the Bundeswehr collection in Koblenz

@johanvanbeek7138 Месяц назад

Germans in WW2 actually used more of the standard egg shaped grenades, than the stick type.

@richardcutts196 Месяц назад

Towards the end of the war the Germans developed a fragmentation grenade that used past date explosives. The explosives were processed into a liquid and poured into a mold. then, when it had solidified, a detonator was added and a notched wire sleeve was fitted over the explosive and when it went off the sleeve broke up into fragments. They had a similar sleeve that could be fitted over the standard stick grenade for the same reason.

@somtochukwuobidegwu5426 Месяц назад

Amazing video mr Mark. I love all your video and i learn new things from your videos.

@stevenhershman2660 Месяц назад

This is my favorite You Tube Channel. The material is fresh, enjoyable and educational.

@fuyu5979 Месяц назад

Another awesome upload ! Subject not given as much exposure as other weapons of WWII. But deadly n effective not only for physical but psychological damage to the soldiers. Kudos for vid including archival films n still pics. Looking forward to ur next one. Peace

@WAL_DC-6B Месяц назад

Very informative video on hand grenades. I wonder what it was like to manufacture these weapons. Thanks for sharing!

@coadypurchase923 Месяц назад

Thanks mark

@Mk-qb2ny Месяц назад

Back in Finland, doing my conscription service for a reserve, we each had to throw one live grenade. They said the supervising officer's job was one of the most dangerous they had to do, as inevitably you'd get some knucklehead who'd fumble the grenade to the trench floor while trying to throw it. So in that case, the officer would have to grab the youngster, throw him aside (the trench was constructed such that with quick action getting safe away from the blast was possible) and wait for the grenade to explode just a meter or two away behind a wall. Still there were accidents and injuries. I remember waiting for my turn in the queue and listening to the grenades pop as they were thrown one by one, all afternoon and thought, wouldn't want to be that officer! They probably had to pick some steel nerved individuals for that.

@johnfisk811 Месяц назад

When I was doing the training we had to stay upright after throwing long enough to note where the grenade landed. If it failed to detonate then you were the one to walk up to it with the trainer to lay a charge next to it so that it could be detonated. So throw, spot and duck behind cover for a live grenade all within less than four seconds. It made the training far more real knowing that you could really be maimed or killed.

@thomaslangner8894 Месяц назад

I'd been told exactly the same story as a conscript in the german army 37 years ago before it was my turn to throw the grenade. I was pretty nervous then and just happy when I got rid of the damned thing.

@mastathrash5609 Месяц назад

One of my favorite videos that you put out in a while👍

@golic7123 Месяц назад

So much i didn't know - Thank You Very informative

@CloneShockTrooper Месяц назад

German hand grenade (stielhandgranate) was in my humble opinion the best to use.

@lancerevell5979 Месяц назад

Some Russian grenades were made with 0-second fuses, intended to be used in boobytraps. People habeen injured or killed by trying to throw them, but the fuse detonating it immediately.

@asya9493 Месяц назад

At the start, 2:15, the bast way to hold/throw is with the lever (also called a spoon) in the palm of your hand not under your fingers, and your fingers firmly on the grenade body not on the spoon. That gives a firmer hold, is a lot safer and gives a more accurate throw. The stick or potato masher style grenade is far far better than the rest - further and more accurate.

@josem.lopezjr.2605 Месяц назад

Thanks video great information always lean something new

@adbp473 Месяц назад

I wonder how long it took Mark to retrieve those flying grenade handles? Two thumbs up.

@martinlatvian5538 Месяц назад

The wooden handle has a huge genius advantage. You can throw it further than a granade without such handle. Kind of like if Your arm was 25 centimeters longer.

@thomaswoodman6332 Месяц назад

A great video, covering more fascinating topics.

@levanii31 Месяц назад

Thank you!

@evileyeball Месяц назад

My grandfathers were both too young for WWII being born in 1927 and 1930 respectively. My great uncle did lose an arm in WWII as he was older than Grandpa. My wife on the other hand had older grandfathers, One of whom was a Scottish Radio operator on the western front and the other was a German Radio Operator in the east fighting for the Axis.

@andrewmosher-le6ct Месяц назад

I remember the grenade course being one of the easier classes in basic at Knox.

@efnissien Месяц назад

I always remember being told the most dangerous part of a No.36, was the base plug. Due to it being a lump of metal screwed into the case, it generally didn't fragment and could fly some distance.

@rickgoetter6340 28 дней назад

Dr. Felton - thanks for this excellent video!

@Minnesota_Vance Месяц назад

Very well done. I learned a lot about granades I didn't know before.

@monkjohn4833 Месяц назад

Great Work Mark!!

@thEannoyingE Месяц назад

It’s interesting that they used baseball as a basis for training with grenades in the US army, being used into Vietnam, which was then replaced with the baseball shaped fragmentation grenades we see today. Though wwii pineapples did stick around into the Vietnam war. Been waiting for this topic to be covered for some time.