Original Item: Only One Available. This Mk. II Grenade Booby Trap with M1 Booby Trap Pressure Firing Device Fuse is completely inert in compliance to the BATF guidelines on inert firearms and explosives and is NOT AVAILABLE FOR EXPORT. This is a visual training aid and cannot be rendered “live” again. The entire set measures 9 x 4½ x 9½” including the faux grass at the top. Please remember to ALWAYS handle by the bottom so as not to damage the display.

When it comes to designing a training program for military personnel, instructors are faced with several challenges. First, unlike athletes there is no off-season, most units are either preparing for deployment, deployed, or refitting from deployment. Secondly, training facilities vary from location to location and often focus on a single task. These tasks may include muscular strength, cardiovascular endurance, field craft or marksmanship. Each of the above contribute to the success of an operation, however there is one area of training that is deficient. This deficiency is visual training; visual ability plays a larger role in achieving optimum performance than most military personnel realize. The goal of integrating visual training into an already packed curriculum is not to dilute it but to improve tactical performance.

This mine was utilized as a visual training aid and was an "earth cut away” to reveal how the mine would be situated in the ground. This was to give servicemen a better understanding on how their equipment worked. Once you were able to properly understand just how exactly a piece of equipment worked, you were able to know how to better employ it.

The Mk II was commonly known as a pineapple grenade, because of its shape and structure. Grooves were cast into the cast iron shell, which was believed at the time to aid in fragmentation and had the side benefit of aiding in gripping the grenade. This provision gave it the appearance of a pineapple fruit. The Mk II was identified with an all yellow body prior to 1943. They were then painted olive drab for camouflage purposes with a narrow yellow band below the fuse.

The body is stamped with an L in a diamond, this indicates manufacture by the Littlestown Foundry. They made over 3 million grenade bodies & also made mines and mortar shells. You will also see many of these "Diamond L" bodies made into cigarette lighters in the early post war years by the Kravitt novelty company.

The grenade and booby trap were affixed to a wooden board to be slid into the mine display.

This is a wonderful example of a genuine US Military WWII training aide which was utilized to better equip our fighting men and Explosive Ordnance Disposal teams with much needed knowledge! Comes ready to display in your ordnance collections!

Totally inert, cannot be converted to an explosive device, not available for export. This item is completely legal within the USA. International Military Antiques, Inc observes all Federal, State and Local laws. Everything for sale on ima-usa.com is completely legal to own, trade, transport and sell within the United States of America.

All deactivated ordnance sold by IMA, Inc is engineered to be inoperable according to guidelines provided by the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATF).