German Incendiary B2.2E-Z ?

[garys39]

Picked up at the weekend, it has no markings on it at all, fits the dimensions and looks of the B2.2E-Z, has anybody seen unmarked versions of this type, also there is no filling plug where the fin attaches ?

 

[millsbomber]

I think its an Old reproduction, i have 1 complete and many parts all clearly marked, to be 100% sure would need to have in my hands.

 

[garys39]

Thankyou for your reply, I've taken some more close up photos, I think it is to well made to be a reproduction but maybe a late war one or a manufactured training aid for our EOD ?
The steel head is made up of 2x pieces and there are components floating in the main body but I'm unable to unscrew this end part.

 

[millsbomber]

This is my example

 

[Alan1]

Here is an eg of what is almost certainly a Home Guard I B for familiarization/training etc. And an eg of an I B fitted with the explosive charge. The other explosive charge accords more closely to Gary's example. All my I B's are marked and have acceptance stamps, just as Millsbomber says, tho' the charge shown on the right has very faint markings. I tend to Gary's view, as the entire item appears to be too well made to be a repro, but I urge him to look again, very closely, to see if anything can be discerned under the paint and surface corrosion etc. Very few, if any, German munitions were completely unmarked, but very late productions did have ink or paint stamps rather than actual impressed detail. Sometimes a paint or ink marking will be found on the fins, but that is because the metal was light gauge and a clumsy worker, probably working under duress as well, could easily distort the metal by a bash with a heavy hammer. Alan1

 

[millsbomber]

super examples Alan, very jealous of the nose cups.

 

[garys39]

Thankyou both of you for the photos, it seems impossible to find very much picture wise of the 2 or 2.2.
Alan on your HG training version, it is marked at all, I have one which is stamped "CAR272 EOD INERT", photos attached.

 

[MINENAZ16]

Interesting poster : https://www.ww2civildefence.co.uk/blog/homemade-ww2-german-incendiary-bomb-instruction-poster

 

[MINENAZ16]

same training B1 here : https://www.bombfuze.net/incendiary_bombs/incendiary_bombs.html#prettyPhoto

 

[millsbomber]

How about this 1.

 

[US-Subs]

Hard items to find. I always seemed to have limited success locating these, but not for lack of trying -

 

[Alan1]

Hi Gary,
Absolutely no markings that I can discern, further the "body" is of steel rather a normal I B alloy, there are no holes for fuzing wires etc, and the explosive part is also light steel tube. The fins look correct for a 2.2kg, the top ring is either copper washed or brass, the fins are steel. It has a very small circular nut or bolt head well forward of the point of balance and this turns but does not unscrew. It is threaded with a fine thread, and I suspect that this is to mount it on a board or, possibly on a wire support giving the impression of falling.
Quite a lot of HG inventiveness went into producing familiarization stores, see my previous post on butterfly bombs.
I have a lot of time for the Home Guard, Dad's Army did them few favours, and many were a pretty tough bunch. My own father, a Great War veteran, was in the H G here in Reading, he came out of the Regular Army in 1938, and his last active service was Palestine in 1936, so he was fairly well up to date on the infantry drills of the day.
Alan1.

 

[MINENAZ16]

Hard items to find. I always seemed to have limited success locating these, but not for lack of trying -

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And this one ? Any info ??

 

[US-Subs]

Afraid not. I got it from a State run ordnance recovery area in Jessenitz-Werk sometime around 2004, digging through one of their scrap piles.

 

[LEI-13-HG]

Thankyou both of you for the photos, it seems impossible to find very much picture wise of the 2 or 2.2.
Alan on your HG training version, it is marked at all, I have one which is stamped "CAR272 EOD INERT", photos attached.

These steel versions were made for the 1969 Battle of Britain film for a scene of incendiaries hitting a street that was never used in the film. The clue is 'EOD' - this term was not used until 1950s/60s. There is a thread about them in either this forum or on Facebook. Either way, they appear every so often for sale.

 

[LEI-13-HG]

Here is my IBEN:

 

[LEI-13-HG]

Picked up at the weekend, it has no markings on it at all, fits the dimensions and looks of the B2.2E-Z, has anybody seen unmarked versions of this type, also there is no filling plug where the fin attaches ?

That looks 100% fine/correct.