What was the device?
I guess it could have been made in 1913 and used in WWI, but that war started in 1914.
One of those tiny bombs you tossed from the cockpit of a Spad?
WWI didn’t begin until 1914 and the US didn’t enter the war until 1917. 1913 could perhaps be described as “World War I era.”
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When I was a kid, I found a WW II era souvenir my father had in the basement of our home on Long Island, NY.
It was a small (10 inch long) silvery-colored “bomb” with fins. It had a hollow tube down the middle. I don’t know if it was a practice bomb dropped from a small airplane or what, but it was heavy.
One day, my cousin was visiting from another part of Long Island. She walked into the inner, unfinished portion of the basement where my father had a workbench. The “bomb” was nearby, so I picked it up and told my cousin, “If I drop this, there’s going to be an explosion!”
My cousin screamed, and then she ran away with her arms flailing like a bat out of hell. Great fun!
In the present day, my cousin has been an elementary school teacher on Long Island for many years and has grown children. She is also a conservative, and she and her husband both voted for Trump.
Even unexploded hollow shells filled with black powder from our Civil War can detonate if moisture hasn’t entered. Chemistry is chemistry and explosives can become less stable over time. Best to be cautious with anything designed to detonate and kill folks with flying steel.
"...in other news,a red thing was seen in a blue box wrapped in plastic along with a empty swizzlers package outside of Bosco's used tire and lug nut shop"
To avoid any panic, they should have called it a “Matter” and not a “Device” according to former U.S. AG Loretta Lynch.
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This has that unmistakable aroma of BS.
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The random ordnance memories for this Army brat ...
When I was four or five years old Nick, I found a live `pineapple’ grenade in Germany, 10+ years after the war. Eventually my Mom took it away from me, mothers can be real killjoys.
Less than ten years later, some kids I knew at Benning wandered out on a mortar range. A couple of them learned the hard way that you aren’t supposed to pick up `dud’ rounds. So maybe Mom was right.
Pop brings home a Claymore mine dummy as homework and plays Sousa band music on his Sony reel-to-reel to relax while getting to know Mr. Claymore.
He gets you sharpshooter and marksman qualified in small-bore at age 12.
You show up at your third civilian junior high school and some officious butthole asks you if you’re a `dove’ on the war. Once you figure out what he means, you say, “I support my country and my Dad.” so you sit by yourself at lunch.
Sniff
They had a lot of cool stuff behind glass at the WWII museum at Ft. Benning—MG 42 machine guns, sub guns, `potato mashers’, rifles, Lugers, Nazi flags, and tanks you could climb on and into, etc.