Sergeant Morris Fineberg points to a fuse ignitor in this photograph taken by a photographer on March 12, 1919. Just five seconds after the ignitor was pulled, it exploded. A total of 1,800 of these grenades were destroyed in a single explosion by the Reclamation and Demolition Office of the Field Ammunition Office, Ordnance Department, 1st Army in Romagne-sur-Montfaucon, Meuse, France. (Order number 42888, official military stock photography)

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