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Thomas W. Messenger correspondence, June-December 1918

1918-08-10 Thomas Messenger Mrs. N.H. Messenger Page 5

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in your hand. This however is not to be noticed. However when this cap explodes it sets a time fuse to burning.It takes five seconds or a trifle more for this fuse to burn. The fuse is attached to the explosives so five seconds after the cap explodes the grenade itself explodes. Some noise it makes too. It has a killing radius of 35 yards and will wound at 200 yards. You can readily see how we can only throw them from cover such as trenches etc. This afternoon we took
 
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