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unknown Grenade
- Thread starter Fjordhouse
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Are you sure it is a grenade? It looks very much like a variant of an Italian Spezzone (= air-dropped bomblet, what is called in French "grenade d'aviation").
Here's a Frag spezzone (2kg Tipo F) :
Yours could be a 1kg Tipo F.I. (incendiary) - identical but without the fragmentation rings. Diameter 64 mm
(the more common incendiary Tipo I had a welded body with sharp angles on the upper side, not pressed with rounded angles as this version)
Such spezzone may have been dropped over the UK between October 1940 and February 1941 by the Corpo Aereo Italiano - no less than 200 Italian aircraft, mainly Fiat Br29 bombers escorted by Fiat cr42 fighter-bombers, based in Belgium that operated over Britain at the side of the Luftwaffe.
Here's a Frag spezzone (2kg Tipo F) :
Yours could be a 1kg Tipo F.I. (incendiary) - identical but without the fragmentation rings. Diameter 64 mm
(the more common incendiary Tipo I had a welded body with sharp angles on the upper side, not pressed with rounded angles as this version)
Such spezzone may have been dropped over the UK between October 1940 and February 1941 by the Corpo Aereo Italiano - no less than 200 Italian aircraft, mainly Fiat Br29 bombers escorted by Fiat cr42 fighter-bombers, based in Belgium that operated over Britain at the side of the Luftwaffe.
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