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Bannerman
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Hi Everyone,
I have recently been swotting up on Mills grenades, gleaning huge amounts of information from Darryl Lynn's The Grenade Recognition Manual, Rick Landers' "Grenade" (both excellent books) and BOCN. I still have a few questions that I would like to put to the forum, which I will spread over seperate threads. Apologies if some of these may have been answered before but I have looked via the search engine, to no avail.
The first of these concerns production numbers. Several sources state that total Mills production for WW1 amounted to to 75 million units (75,131,962).
Does anyone know the number of units produced subsequently during the interwar period, WW2 and the post war period up to the end of production (1972 in GB, 1980's parts of Commonwealth) and therefore can we put a number to the total of all Mills grenades ever produced?
Bruno
I have recently been swotting up on Mills grenades, gleaning huge amounts of information from Darryl Lynn's The Grenade Recognition Manual, Rick Landers' "Grenade" (both excellent books) and BOCN. I still have a few questions that I would like to put to the forum, which I will spread over seperate threads. Apologies if some of these may have been answered before but I have looked via the search engine, to no avail.
The first of these concerns production numbers. Several sources state that total Mills production for WW1 amounted to to 75 million units (75,131,962).
Does anyone know the number of units produced subsequently during the interwar period, WW2 and the post war period up to the end of production (1972 in GB, 1980's parts of Commonwealth) and therefore can we put a number to the total of all Mills grenades ever produced?
Bruno