We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/07/whatziss_solved.html Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:57:48 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Eric was very close - and Frank, building on Eric's work, finally bridged the last tiny gap. The plate was used by German Stormtroops to pull the fuzeloops not of the Steilhandgranaten - stick grenades, but rather the wire loops of the egg grenades. In other words - like this. Well done guys - it wasn't an easy one, it's not a well known, nor very common, piece of kit. As far as I know - until I posted these pics - the website that Frank found was the only other place you could find a picture of this -... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/07/whatziss_solved.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/07/whatziss_solved.html Mon, 03 Jul 2006 08:56:06 -0600 Ah, now I see. I betcha a sufficiently ept Stormtrooper could manage one exploding, 3 or so in the air, and one raring back to throw, using one of those. That would "keep up the skeer", as Forrest put it. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/07/whatziss_solved.html#comment-47418 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/07/whatziss_solved.html#comment-47418 Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:42:58 -0600 Why does throwing eggs at politicans come to my mind? wd btw Eric and Frank. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/07/whatziss_solved.html#comment-47410 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/07/whatziss_solved.html#comment-47410 Tue, 04 Jul 2006 04:22:00 -0600