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Question on WWII display

timmymac

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Local Armed Forces Museum wants to display some of my collection @ their annual Open House/WWII Battle Re-enactment! I'm VERY excited , to say the least. Never done ANYTHING like this. Except for my family. & you guys, no ones ever seen my stuff. Anyway, one of the displays (trying to talk 'em into letting me have more than one) is WWII era 'nades. In putting through collection, I've got a question that I've been unable to get definitive answer to so far. What were these 3 French grenades roll in Second World War. The F1(brilliant) VB, & what I believe to be DF 37/46? My first thought was that the F1 should but not sure of others. Whadda y'all think, would these be incorrect in a WWII display?
 

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Hey Tim, That is awesome news ! That is so very cool... Wish I could help you with the grenade question, but I honestly don't know...Please, do post a picture of the display ! Grizzly
 
The VB (US copy) certainly had a role. We were still outfitting Marines with them early in the war. I've got photos of live ones still being recovered on Guadalcanal. Not surprisingly the dud rate seems to have been pretty high. When talking with local bomb techs they wanted to know what they were, noting that they find them constantly.

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