OK, I stirred up some good conversation with the first posting so we'll have another go at it. A mixture of US and foreign items here. The glass bottle in photo 1 contains the 7,643 steel balls I got when I removed the plastic matrix from green grenade to the left of the bottle. I'm hoping someone can shed some light on these three grenades. The two grenades with the black plastic spoons (very wide, almost an inch spoons) match the description of the Egyptian No. 1 Defensive (green body) and No. 1 Offensive (black body), except for the fuzes. The other grenade with the M75 type fuze has a similar but not identical body and no embedded fragments. There are no markings on them except an imbossed 02-88 270 on the bottom of the center grenade. They were all recovered during the Yugoslav conflict period. Were they all made at some point in the former Yugoslavia or the later formed countries or are they Egyptian?
The blue grenade in the fourth picture is the U.S. 3F65 Device, a re-usable trainer for the M26A2. It contained replaceable dye packets. It produced a noise, smoke and dye marker for training soldiers. The program was in the early 1970's, and never was fully adopted.
Also, the Mark I illumination grenade in the last photo is a puzzle. The grenade is a typical one except it has a wide heat shrunk plastic band that covers the joint of the two body sections. It was placed on and then the grenade was painted and stencilled. Unfortunately, someone has removed all of the markings so I cannot identify the year of manufacture. Can't find any reference to the addition of the plastic ever being done.
The blue grenade in the fourth picture is the U.S. 3F65 Device, a re-usable trainer for the M26A2. It contained replaceable dye packets. It produced a noise, smoke and dye marker for training soldiers. The program was in the early 1970's, and never was fully adopted.
Also, the Mark I illumination grenade in the last photo is a puzzle. The grenade is a typical one except it has a wide heat shrunk plastic band that covers the joint of the two body sections. It was placed on and then the grenade was painted and stencilled. Unfortunately, someone has removed all of the markings so I cannot identify the year of manufacture. Can't find any reference to the addition of the plastic ever being done.
