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M22A2 Smoke grenade

jvollenberg

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Does anyone know if the U.S ever had a M22A2 BLUE smoke rifle grenade?

Someone told me that there was a blue one, but I cannot find anything about it in any of the books I have. or maybe I am just missing something.

Joe
 
Hello,

In the documentation issued by our EOD school, it is said thait in the begening there were 4 colours RED, GREEN, YELLOW and VIOLET (but not blue) and that this last color was abandoned after a while. I have no bibliographic references for this.

Regards,

S.
 
Yes those are the colors I also have. Researching back as far as I can, I have found nothing on a blue version. This might just be an old word of mouth issue. So I thought I would look.

Joe
 
I heard the same thing a while back, am pretty sure after talking with them the color was violet they saw.
 
No blue that I can find from going back to 1942. This includes "Streamers" and "Impact". Did find out however they did make one HC and assuming this one was white.
 
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