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Default 01-20-2003, 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Innoxx
That is very realistic, because when I talked to my grandad (ww2 vet, german side) he has had plenty of nades explode no more than inches away. He says the concussion will still knock you off your bearings (much like a flashbang). He has been peppered though (he showed me his bigass scar on his leg from shrapnel), he's cool.
A lot of the German grenades were made by slave laborers -- they would shorten the fuse, or make them not work at all -- especially towards the end of the war. eatthis:

A little sabotage never hurt the Allied cause, but at least your grandfather made it through the war.
  
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