As the bombers departed, Gunner Hamas called his men back from the bush, and set out to resume delivery of hand grenades.
Marine Gunner Hamas, who still had 50 cases of hand grenades in his truck, having just delivered 25 to Kuku Point, saw the red sun insignia on the planes as they roared low overhead.
The ground was littered with enemy hand grenades, boxes of explosives for destroying dugouts, and incendiary bombs the enemy had no opportunity of using.
But some Americans had remained, and they attacked the Germans with hand grenades, killing many of them.
It was during this bombardment that a number of French prisoners escaped their captors and sought refuge in a shell crater where they discovered a large supply of hand grenades.
At one point thousands of boxes of projectiles, hand grenades, rockets, shoes, rifles, and helmets were strewn everywhere.
This occurred at a place on the line called Duck's Bill, and resulted in the British being without an adequate supply of hand grenades.
Hand grenades= are designed to be thrown by the hand and vary greatly in construction.
Such as are to be considered relate chiefly to the greater time and labor of advancing, the more frequent use of darkness and the use of hand grenades to augment the fire.
Hand grenades or bombs are also employed which, upon bursting, liberate the gas or in some cases scatter acids or caustic soda.
Have cabled home begging for more engineers, a lot of hand grenades, trench mortars, periscopes and tools.
The Navy now assure me that their Dockyard Superintendent at Malta could make us a fine lot of hand grenades in his workshops if Lord Methuen will give him the order.
Then I have had to cable for Engineers, trench mortars, bombs, hand grenades, periscopes.
Krithia about dusk: they would use their "pull" in the matter of hand grenades to counter-attack by moonlight.
Conflicts in the densely wooded and rocky ground were carried on chiefly by hand grenades.
In the latter place Russian troops crept through a mine crater toward a point where Austro-Hungarian engineering troops were preparing additional mines and dispersed the working parties by a shower of hand grenades.
The rocks between the trenches were literally and absolutely covered with shells of every caliber, exploded and unexploded, and with thousands of hand grenades, so that it was a very serious matter where one should put one's feet.
Beside the bombs, there are several boxes of hand grenades, always guarded by one of the German sailors who is heavily armed.
The force of batteries is directed against the entrenchments, hand grenades, bombs, shells, gases and every device which has fallen to the use of armies is projected at the ditches in which are hidden the enemy soldiers.
It conforms to the general description of hand grenades; i.
The entire front should be defended by a barrage of hand grenades, while the barrage of automatic rifles and rifle grenades is superposed farther to the front, up to 400 yards.
In gas projectiles such as shells, hand grenades, and trench mortar bombs, a part or the whole of the explosive charge is replaced by a liquid which is converted into gas by the explosion.
I say, Sergeant, don't you think we are damn short of hand grenades?
I told you that I got a supplementary lot of hand grenades by blackmailing the Colonel.
Have they abundant supplies of hand grenades, etc.
Hand grenades should be thrown as soon as the enemy is within 30 yards.
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