{"id":130245,"date":"2022-09-05T14:53:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T18:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=130245"},"modified":"2022-09-04T15:09:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T19:09:29","slug":"hate-to-run-into-it-but-a-clever-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=130245","title":{"rendered":"Hate to run into it: but a clever idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Smart buggers… seems some of the “air vents” on at least one of the Normandy bunkers were a bit sneaky.\u00a0 While you would think an air vent a great place to drop a grenade – clear out the inside, and the walls would protect you, right? – some of the vents were piped back toward the outside. So, when Pvt. Snuffie pulls the pin, and drops the grnade into the vent – the grenade falls out at his feet. Nasty.<\/p>\n

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Warfare became infinitely more gruesome during World War II thanks to some rather incredible advances in technology. But a very deadly trick deployed by the builders of a bunker in Normandy used nothing more than the art of misdirection \u2014 quite literally.<\/p>\n

A hole, disguised as an air vent, would seem the perfect place for an advancing enemy to pop a grenade. However, the tosser would come to regret that when the explosive simply dropped through a small pipe and fell out at the assailant\u2019s feet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Military Times<\/a><\/p>\n

Looks like it took a second or so to pass through and roll out – with a 3 second fuze on the grenade plus reaction time, that adds up to an “oh Sh..” situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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