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icthyo · 11-09-2014, 07:45 PM

We lost Dad earlier this year. He wrote the story up and it is in a book on the 104th. My wife is okay with giving the information to you. I can get a good photo as well. I thought it was a pretty good story.

hansfischer007 · 11-09-2014, 08:29 PM

Well...this story is about a Japanese Grenade.....and a mean little kid.......when I was about 5 years old.....was down the street at a neighbors house when their son came home from WW2.....he was a Marine and had been on Iwo Jima........after the dust had settled a bit......he reached in his duffle bag..and gave me the Grenade....it was a small one...and he unscrewed it in front of my mother to allay her fears...he had dumped the powder..had no charge left in it at all.completely safe...the top had a small metal cover with a spring held in place by the usual grenade pin......so.....I took my "treasure" and ran home...coming in the living room...my 11 year old brother was on the couch eating a bowl of cereal....asked me what I had.....so excitedly I told him...."Mr Fryars son who is a Marine just came home from Iwo Jima and gave me this neat Japanese grenade....then.....I pulled the pin...and tossed it in his lap.....I can still see his face to this day and how he threw the cereal bowl straight up and took off running.........Geezzz....I wuz a mean widdle kid

(my youngest son has it now)

Arizona Slim · 11-10-2014, 12:22 AM

Hansfisher, I guess you and I were a lot alike. In my military days I was in ordinance disposal with the 101st Abn. in KY. and had access to just about anything I wanted. I picked up a dummy frag grenade, painted it OD, plugged the hole in the bottom, and screwed in a live fuse. My buddy's desk just happened to be end to end with mine. As I was sitting at my desk one afternoon pretending to play with the grenade, I could see that he was watching me out of the corner of his eye as he was catching up on some paper work. One of his desk drawers, the one closest to my desk was open and I just couldn't resist, pretending to fumble around with the grenade, I "accidentaly" pulled the pin and nerviously said "Oh s--t" and dropped it into his desk drawer. He came up over the top of that desk cracking both knees on the edge, landed on all fours, and craweled out the door located a few feet away so fast I think he may have left a vapour trail behind him! I laughed so hard the tears were rolling down my cheeks, but needless to say he didn't see the humor in it. Afterward I did feel just a little bad since he banged his knees so hard getting out of there.

11-09-2014, 08:29 PM	#2
hansfischer007 User Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Sunny Tennessee Posts: 233 Thanks: 509 Thanked 96 Times in 48 Posts	Japanese Grenade Well...this story is about a Japanese Grenade.....and a mean little kid.......when I was about 5 years old.....was down the street at a neighbors house when their son came home from WW2.....he was a Marine and had been on Iwo Jima........after the dust had settled a bit......he reached in his duffle bag..and gave me the Grenade....it was a small one...and he unscrewed it in front of my mother to allay her fears...he had dumped the powder..had no charge left in it at all.completely safe...the top had a small metal cover with a spring held in place by the usual grenade pin......so.....I took my "treasure" and ran home...coming in the living room...my 11 year old brother was on the couch eating a bowl of cereal....asked me what I had.....so excitedly I told him...."Mr Fryars son who is a Marine just came home from Iwo Jima and gave me this neat Japanese grenade....then.....I pulled the pin...and tossed it in his lap.....I can still see his face to this day and how he threw the cereal bowl straight up and took off running.........Geezzz....I wuz a mean widdle kid (my youngest son has it now)

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11-09-2014, 07:45 PM	#1
icthyo New User Join Date: Nov 2014 Posts: 2 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	We lost Dad earlier this year. He wrote the story up and it is in a book on the 104th. My wife is okay with giving the information to you. I can get a good photo as well. I thought it was a pretty good story.

11-10-2014, 12:22 AM	#3
Arizona Slim Patron LugerForum Patron Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Illinois Posts: 706 Thanks: 1,026 Thanked 409 Times in 225 Posts	Hansfisher, I guess you and I were a lot alike. In my military days I was in ordinance disposal with the 101st Abn. in KY. and had access to just about anything I wanted. I picked up a dummy frag grenade, painted it OD, plugged the hole in the bottom, and screwed in a live fuse. My buddy's desk just happened to be end to end with mine. As I was sitting at my desk one afternoon pretending to play with the grenade, I could see that he was watching me out of the corner of his eye as he was catching up on some paper work. One of his desk drawers, the one closest to my desk was open and I just couldn't resist, pretending to fumble around with the grenade, I "accidentaly" pulled the pin and nerviously said "Oh s--t" and dropped it into his desk drawer. He came up over the top of that desk cracking both knees on the edge, landed on all fours, and craweled out the door located a few feet away so fast I think he may have left a vapour trail behind him! I laughed so hard the tears were rolling down my cheeks, but needless to say he didn't see the humor in it. Afterward I did feel just a little bad since he banged his knees so hard getting out of there.