odd stielhandgranate video

[batonroundcollector]

From Wikipedia article 'Grenade'; description states from the Netherlands, 1946:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stick_hand_grenade_throw_clip.gif

Described as '...a high explosive grenade with time fuze...' but looks like a smoke (notched handle, white stripe and text on can) and then appears to explode as HE??

 

[Millsman]

I suspect the explosion is separate from the grenade. Look at the location. A bush. Also the throw was only 7 metres, so no risk of shrapnel injury?

I expect it was a staged set up for the camera.

 

[batonroundcollector]

Yeah looks a little too close for comfort if it was a HE gren exploding.

On closer inspection this is a clip from a short film appearing to be warning people against picking up UXO, of which there must have been a large amount in the Netherlands after the War.

 

[pzgr40]

It's from a 1946 Dutch government cinema (Polygoon journaal) warning people not to play around with abandoned ammo. The Polygoon journaal was played before the main movie and was what the 8 o clock news is today
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/...WAARSCHUWING_TEGEN_LANDMIJNEN-PGM4011889.webm

The most painfull... you see a fortune of rare stuff passing by in mint condition :cry:

 

[pzgr40]

Another one "dicing with death" from 1948
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgJmcJH-MuY

 

[Millsman]

That's a better film. Thanks for posting.