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WW2 AUSTRALIANS HOMEGUARD GRENADE + MOLTOV with special fuze, from PAT HANNA

Zorro

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Hi Guys,

some time ago, I had purchased the Australian booklet with
the title "GRENADE-TRAINING by recreatinal Methods" by
Pat Hanna, Melbourne.

If You check the booklet, quite a part deals with improvised
Grenades / Molotov´s / Petrol-Bombs:


- see especially pages 10.pdf , 11.pdf, 12.pdf and 13.pdf

What caught my attraction is the on page 10/Paragraph 3/Petrol Bomb
described "PAT-HANNA-Ignition-Fuses which can be obtained through Defence".
Does anyboby know more Details or has some-one more detailed schematic-drawings
as below shown? We are talking about a pull-friction-fuze with time-fuze and most
recently a Detonator attached. Which material / pull-fuzes / time-fuze ans Detonator
had been used ...?

Interesting the Statement that 10% less casulties among the throwers were reported,
see alsopage 10/Paragraph 3/Petrol Bomb


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What I did find our so far is:

1.) who´s Pat Hanna / Invention of Fuze for Petrol Bomb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Hanna
see in the link´s explaination under the chapter "Later Life", that the
Invention of an "Detonation device for a Petrol grenade" is mentioned !

Thank You for Your Support!


Cheers,
Ralf
 
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