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Provost Marshal General

In 1943 the Provost Marshal General requested the CWS to develop a tear gas grenade with the size, shape, and weight of a baseball for military police to use in breaking up riots. The finished grenade, standardized in February 1945, was a plastic ball holding about two-tenths of a pound of CN, fused to burst 2-3 seconds after it left the hand and before it could be picked up by a rioter and thrown back. The service produced more than 10,000 of these riot grenades by the end of the year. ... [Pg.72]

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