Incendiary grenade

Hand Stick Grenade, Incendiary (p 178 with 2 Figs)... 

Capt J. W. Gilbert, Development of Grenade, Incendiary, AN-M14. TDMR 1114, 22 Aug 45. 

A good source of ready-made thermate is the U.S. military AN M-14 Incendiary Grenade. To remove the thermate, first pry out the fuse assembly with crimpers or other nonsparking implement. See Figure 61. The reddish-brown caked substance on top of the contents of the grenade is a first fire mixture and it is spark sensitive. This should be broken up and the grayish powder beneath, which is the thermate, can be poured out. 

Mix equal parts of explosive and thermate incendiary. A powdered explosive is easiest to use, and TNT may be safely crushed with a wooden implement in a wooden container. Plastic explosive or dynamite also may be used, although in this case the explosive should be placed under the thermate so that the thermate will be directed upward. The thermate can be obtained from the AN M-14 incendiary grenade or homemade as described in the section on improvised incendiaries. ... 

Fill the container half full of coarse thermate (obtained from the AN M-14 incendiary grenade or homemade). 

Grenade. A small explosive or chemical missile which can be either thrown by hand (Hand Grenade), or be projected from the muzzle of a rifle or carbine (Rifle Grenade). Many varieties exist, such as antipersonnel, antitank, chemical, concussion (offensive), defensive, fragmentation, frangible, gas, illuminating, incendiary, practice, riot, smoke and training (Ref 40a, pp 84-51)... 

Incendiary hand grenades were clay or glass vessels with a narrow throat. They contained a flammable mixture, which was ignited just before the vessel was thrown against enemy installations. The vessel broke, bringing the flaming mixture in contact with objects to be ignited... 

Although aircraft was introduced as an auxiliary warfare weapon by various countries as early as 1910, their actual combat use did not begin until WWI. By this time, incendiary materials were used in the following devices a) small arms ammunition b) shells c) trench mortar projectiles d) grenades and other hand weapons e) aircraft bombs f) flame projectors (described separately) and g) rockets... 

Grenades and other small devices. Small portable incendiary devices, such as hand grenades, are very valuable because they can easily set fire to flammable targets. These grenades can also be used for throwing into dug-outs and for destroying material abandoned in retreat, such as damaged planes... 

Phosphorous grenade consisted of a sheet metal can filled with yellow phosphorous and provided with an explosive device. Although the primary aim of such grenades was smoke-production they were also incendiary weapons... 

Although uses for incendiary grenades are limited, they were still used during WWII. The present incendiary grenades are of two types ... 

CA 46, 1768 (1952). An easily combustible mixture suitable as fuel for incendiary bombs and grenades, flame throwers, etc. Consists of 7-14% volatile hydrocarbon fuel such as gasoline, and 93 to 86% of soap-type gelling agent, which is composed of Al oleate 50-75, Al stearate 25-50, to which is added about 1% of oxy-aromatic antioxident compound... 

CA 53, 17513 (1959). Materials useful as rocket fuels, semisolid or gelled fuels for bursting and tail-ejection-type bombs, and incendiary fuels for flame throwers and hand grenades are described. They are made by mixing 0.1-25% by wt of satd, unsatd, or aromatic nitrohydrocarbons or their mixts, such as nitro- or dinitromethane, -ethane, -propane, or -butane with divinylated ketoses or diaryl deoxyketitols prepd by reaction of C3 g ketose sugars with C6 M aromatic hydrocarbons. The latter include CfiH, toluene, naphthalene, anthracene and their alkylated derivs... 

Fig 389 on p 239) was a heavy cardboard cylinder 6% inches long, which contd a filling of an incendiary type which burned with an intense white flame. It was fired from the Type 89 Grenade Discharger. A cylindrical proplnt container was attached at the base ... 

Incendiary Stick Grenade had light steel cylindrical body with hemispherical ends and wooden handle threaded into the base. Length of body 13.2 inches, diam 2.1 inches and length of handle 5.3 inches. The body was filled with 41 rubber pellets, each impregnated with a soln of WP in carbon disulfide. The pellets were scattered by means of a small central burster chge. 

Molotov Cocktail, called Frangible Incendiary Grenade in Ref 1, p 200. Its body consisted of a Japanese beer bottle into the top of which was tightly fitted an all-way action fuze. The bottle, 11% inches long 2-1/3 inches in diam was filled with ca 12 oz of an inflammable benzene-type liquid (Ref 2, pp 235—36 with Fig 179)... 

Spigot Type Grenade Launcher consisted of a rifled barrel threaded to an adapter. It was attached to either the 6.5-mm or 7.7-mm Rifle at the rear of the front sight. It was used to fire Type 91, Type 3 HE, and several types of Smoke and Incendiary Grenades (pp 179—80 with 3 Figs)... 

Incendiary Grenade. (Shoiyo tekidan). See under GRENADES... 

White Phosphorus (WP) (Hakurin). It was used as an Incendiary and in Incendiary Mixtures in Bombs, Grenades and Projectiles, described here under Incendiaries and in Refs 2 3, WP was also used in Smoke Compositions as described here under Smoke Producing Materials, items d, e, h and in Refs 2 3... 

Incendiary Grenades contain an incendiary mixt for starting fires... 

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