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FRONTLINE
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de to the use of grenades around the world
1 grenade
te: 1908
Trench warfare
: Great Britain
Cast-iron bombshells
Date: 1467
Speciality: Setting enemy camps
and forts on fire
Location: Europe
Ketchum grenade
Date: 1861 1
Speciality: Trench warfare
Location: North-east
United States 7
Speciality: Fragmentation grenade,
effective in trench warfare
Locati
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AMERICANMILESTONES
Tear-gas Mk 40
grenade Date: 1966
Date: 1919 Speciality: Concussion 4
Speciality: Chemical grenade used against
gas grenades, used enemy frogmen and
forriotcontrol divers 4
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Mk1 Mod 0
Date: 1943 re
Speciality: w
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M84
Date: 1995 8
Speciality: Flash
grenade, used to THEWINTERWAR
disorientate and stun 1
enemies FINLAND 1939-1940
M61 In the Winter War, Finnish soldiers use Liquid fire grenades
Date: 1961 Stinger grenade improvised petrol grenades like those used Date: c. 750 BCE
Speciality: Asafety Date: 2000s in the earlier Spanish Civil War. They named Speciality: Consuming
pin prevented Speciality: Riot control, themMolotovcocktailsinmockeryofthe enemies in sticky fire
accidental detonation especially in prisons Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov. Location: Greece
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