Italian munitions worker inserting the fuse of an Excelsior-Thévenot P2 "ballerina" hand-grenade in a factory in Milan, 1917.
Posted by Sad-Commission2027@reddit | ForgottenWeapons | View on Reddit | 23 comments
JunkbaII@reddit
Camera man always lives
Few_Carpenter_9185@reddit
Still better (less bad...) than the Japanese grenades filled with Picric acid that they used into WWII.
The Picric acid would form touch/impact sensitive Picric metal salts with the grenade body. And the Japanese design required striking the fuse hard on a rock to start the grenade. Or, if nothing suitable was around, their own helmet.
As one might imagine, this created some quality control complaints. Well, from the surviving troops anyway.
But the Japanese Ordnance Corps was on the case.
They added some paint to the inside of the grenade body.
mad-cormorant@reddit
Not sure how true your comment is, but the Japanese did coat the insides of their artillery shells with urushi lacquer when they used pure picric acid as explosive filling.
enfersijesais@reddit
Aka poison oak sap
ReactionAble7945@reddit
And then we have the photographer, not behind the sheild
Fluid_Lingonberry467@reddit
If the munition worker had all 20 fingers it means they are really good
skeptical-speculator@reddit
or new
sketner2018@reddit
Take note of which side of the shield the guy with the camera is on
Sgt_Stinger@reddit
You know, tripods exist.
anActualGiantSquid@reddit
I wonder how often there were instances which required that blast shield
HowToPronounceGewehr@reddit
I mean
The factory litterally exploded on June 7th 1918.
Ernest Hemingway intervened as an Ambulance driver, talking about it in one of his short stories
Harutinator@reddit
Ernest Hemingway worked in an Italian grenade factory during ww1? Big if true.
Der_Schubkarrenwaise@reddit
My friend, Hemingway did almost everything Chuck Norris left over.
HowToPronounceGewehr@reddit
Man
I litterally wrote that he went there after the explosion as an ambulance driver.
Harutinator@reddit
“ Others would die like cats; a skull broken in and iron in the brain, they lie alive two days like cats that crawl into the coal bin with a bullet in the brain and will not die until you cut their heads off. “
That was a lot to take in
killingicarus@reddit
No he was an ambulance driver In The Italian military during the war- it’s where he formed a lot of the foundation for the story a farewell to arms
Few-Decision-6004@reddit
Often enough to have shields made apearantly.
LinguoBuxo@reddit
Mmmm she still seems to have above average number of fingers for similar positions...
archer2500@reddit
Hearing protection optional. lol
MojoCrow@reddit
We can’t see her other hand though
LinguoBuxo@reddit
Still above average
InitialLandscape@reddit
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