Incendiary grenade fillings

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

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)... 

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... 

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. 

A chemical grenade is a grenade that is filled with a chemical agent, i.e.f a gas,. smoke, or incendiary, di ifper8ed by an igniting or exploding device, and thrown by hand or fired from a rifle. 

More peaceful uses of these crude articles appeared in the form of fire crackers - the first fireworks One mixture corresponded quite closely to modern gunpowder in that it contained saltpetre, sulfur and willow charcoal. The fire cracker was said to consist of a loosely-filled parchment tube tied tightly at both ends and with the introduction of a small hole to accept a match or fuse. All of these incendiary mixtures, presumably containing saltpetre, are mentioned in Chinese work dating from the eleventh century ad. Thus, in theory at least, the Battle of Hastings could have been one of Greek Fire , incendiary rockets and grenades. 

During the period from 1920 to 1940 the CWS initiated approximately 700 projects for the Army, the Navy, and for civilian organizations. The military subjects encompassed gas masks, protective clothing, protective ointments, incendiary materials, mortars, airplane spray tanks, chemical cylinders, chemical artillery shells, colored smoke, chemical grenades, toxicological studies, meteorology, analytical methods, pilot plants, full-scale plants, filling plants, and medical studies. 

In 1917-18 the Chemical Warfare Service branched out from its research on toxic agents into other fields, one of which was incendiary mixtures. Chemists experimented with incendiary fillings for shells, grenades, and bombs, but did not have time to perfect any of the munitions. In this field CWS overlapped the Ordnance Department s work on incendiaries. In 1920 the War Department set up a line of demarcation between the two services, with the Ordnance Department henceforth to design the munitions and the CWS to provide the filling. ... 

CWTC Item 562, Standardization of Incendiary Filled Frangible Grenades, 29 Sep 42. (2) CWTC Item 609, same title, 24 Nov 42. (3) CWTC Item 746, Obsoletion of Grenade, Frangible, Ml, 11 Jun 43. 

In addition to incendiary bombs, grenades, and shells, the CWS worked with incendiary rockets. Rocket research, to determine if the munitions would be suitable for toxic fillings, was first undertaken for the service by the NDRC in 1941. Incendiary fillings became the subject of CWS experimentation two years later, with the Ordnance Department and Navy co-operating in the design of rocket bodies and mortars. 

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