Original Italian WWI Benaglia Rifle Grenade with Rod - Inert MG 42 with the CROWNED FW monogram

with the CROWNED FW monogram on the top arm for Frederick William

returning to Oahu in March

and V proof marks on the barrel breech

784th Bomb Squadron

which are used for securing them

Original Italian WWI Benaglia Rifle Grenade with Rod - Inert MG 42 with the CROWNED FW monogramOriginal Item. Only One Available. This is a rare example of the WWI Italian Benaglia rifle grenade, actually a rod grenade. The rod grenade was patented by an Englishman named Frederick Marten Hale, an employee of the Cotton Powder Company at Faversham in Kent, in November 1909. Unfortunately, in practice, the rod grenade turned out to be an impractical weapon of dubious accuracy that caused stress on the rifle barrel, and which soon necessitated