“A short, color dramatization filmed recently in which we get to see two well-outfitted actors perform a probable scene from the Western Front in which a cool-headed combat veteran instructs the newbie as how best to make a Mills’ Bomb – OR SO WE THOUGHT until we received this email transmission from a bright-eyed fellow who preferred to be known only as “CMC”. He wished to point out that the film community had once again done us wrong and that what was taking place on screen was in fact the making of a “jam tin bomb”; he further explained:
“The Mills bomb was the familiar cast iron segmented pattern grenade with a pin and firing lever. Improvised grenades were common in 1914-15 but by 1917 were a thing of the past”.”