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Mark II Grenade

Country of OriginUnited States
TypeGrenade
Diameter59.000 mm
Weight0.595 kg

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ww2dbaseDesigned in 1918, the Mark II fragmentation hand grenades were adopted by the United States military in 1920. Nicknamed "pineapples", they each weighed 1 pound 5 ounces (about 0.6 kilograms). They remained the standard fragmentation grenades of American forces in WW2. The Mk IIA1 variant design was placed in production in 1942. Near the end of the war, the original and the variant designs were renamed Mk 2 and Mk 2A1, respectively. They were replaced by the M26 grenades in the 1950s.

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Last Major Revision: Jun 2011

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Photographs

An American soldier posing with a grenade, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, United States, date unknownUnited States Marine preparing to throw a Mark II “pineapple” grenade on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 1942. Note Browning Automatic Rifle at left.Paratrooper of US 101st Airborne Division holding a Nazi German flag captured in a village near Utah Beach, Saint-Marcouf, France, 8 Jun 1944US Mk 2 fragmentation hand grenade, 1950s

Mark II Timeline

2 Apr 1945 The American Mk II and Mk IIA1 hand grenades were redesignated Mk 2 and Mk 2A1, respectively.




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An American soldier posing with a grenade, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, United States, date unknown
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