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No. 73 Grenade
The No. 73 grenade, also known as the Thermos or Woolworth bomb,〔Mackenzie, p. 92〕 was a British anti-tank grenade used during the Second World War. It got its nickname from the resemblance to a Thermos flask.
==Development==
With the end of the Battle of France and the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from the port of Dunkirk between 26 May and 4 June 1940, a German invasion of Great Britain seemed likely.〔Mackenzie, p. 20〕 However, the British Army was not well-equipped to defend the country in such an event; in the weeks after the Dunkirk evacuation it could only field twenty-seven divisions.〔Lampe, p. 3〕 The Army was particularly short of anti-tank guns, 840 of which had been left behind in France and only 167 were available in Britain; ammunition was so scarce for the remaining guns that regulations forbade even a single round being used for training purposes.〔
As a result of these shortcomings, a number of new anti-tank weapons had to be developed to equip the British Army and the Home Guard with the means to repel German armoured vehicles.〔Hogg, pp. 237-239〕 Many of these were anti-tank hand grenades, large numbers of which could be built in a very short space of time and for a low cost.〔 They included the Grenade, Hand, Anti-tank No. 74, also known as the 'Sticky bomb', which was coated with a strong adhesive and 'stuck' to a vehicle, and the No. 76 Special Incendiary Grenade, essentially a simple white phosphorus incendiary contained in a smashable glass container, like a more sophisticated variation on the "Molotov cocktail" (which simply uses a flammable liquid such as gasoline and a burning rag as a "fuse").〔Hogg, pp. 239-240〕 Ian Hogg states that the "simplest of these grenades" was the No. 73 grenade, which was known under a variety of names, including the hand percussion grenade,〔Hogg, p. 239〕 the Thermos bomb and the Woolworth bomb.〔
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