Скачать или смотреть [Pt.2] He Threw the “Wrong” Grenade… and Broke the Line

A U.S. private grabbed a grenade marked “NOT FOR OFFENSIVE USE.”

Hours later, Japanese bunkers were going silent—one after another.

June 1944, Biak Island (Dutch New Guinea)—the 41st Infantry Division is pinned down by Japanese coral bunkers and cave positions guarding the approach to Mokmer airfield. Standard Mark 2 fragmentation grenades keep bouncing off coral lips and detonating outside… and the casualty math turns ugly.

Then Private First Class Harold Moon, a farm kid from Iowa, makes a decision that could get him punished—or get his friends killed if he does nothing. He reaches for a white phosphorus smoke grenade and uses it in a way the rulebook warned against. What follows is a brutal, close-range lesson in WWII Pacific bunker warfare, battlefield improvisation, and why real combat often destroys “perfect” doctrine.

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