Original New Zealand WWII No. 36M Mk I Mills Bomb Grenade by Mason & Porter and Precision Engineering Company - Dated September 1943 - INERT Field Gear with a five button closure

with a five button closure that is missing its very bottom button

on a dawn patrol as they keep constant vigil along the glacial fjords of Norway's far-northern coastline during March 1943

though they are most likely now depleted

United States Pacific Fleet

We immediately lost 8

Original New Zealand WWII No. 36M Mk I Mills Bomb Grenade by Mason & Porter and Precision Engineering Company - Dated September 1943 - INERT Field Gear with a five button closureOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is an excellent and especially scarce New Zealand manufactured WWII No. 36M Mk I Mills Bomb grenade dated September 1943. It retains its segmented cast iron body, internal mechanical components, striker lever, safety pin, base plug, square key filling plug, original painted markings, and much of its period shellac coating. New Zealand produced Mills grenades are considerably more difficult to locate than their