Tom
Thanks for the photo which perhaps confirms 1940's production before 1944. I'm sorry I've not yet travelled to Isreal to dig out the history of this grenade but I do have a life!
Mike,
The production figures quoted in the Isreali document Tom and I have referred to are 53,000 Mills grenades produced between 1944 and 1947 with a total production of 150,000 in the same period. From this I concede that there were other grenade types in production.
Can we now put this to bed? These grenades were produced from the mid 1940's and not in the 1950's. They were probably still used in the 1950's as training (throwing practice) grenades, but had probably been too labour intensive to produce on an ongoing basis, when simpler grenades were available.
John
Thanks for the photo which perhaps confirms 1940's production before 1944. I'm sorry I've not yet travelled to Isreal to dig out the history of this grenade but I do have a life!
Mike,
The production figures quoted in the Isreali document Tom and I have referred to are 53,000 Mills grenades produced between 1944 and 1947 with a total production of 150,000 in the same period. From this I concede that there were other grenade types in production.
Can we now put this to bed? These grenades were produced from the mid 1940's and not in the 1950's. They were probably still used in the 1950's as training (throwing practice) grenades, but had probably been too labour intensive to produce on an ongoing basis, when simpler grenades were available.
John