I looked up the M67 grenade before ordering to make sure they were 'Nam era appropriate for my web gear.
With a service date of 1968, I'm OK there.
What was interesting is the variants of the M67.
Specifically the M68. It's an impact, rather than delay fused version. It has a red spoon and fuse to differentiate it from the M67, plus the body should be marked 'impact' instead of 'delay'.
The M68 is kind of a dual fuse deal. When you let the spoon go, there's a 1-2 second delay before it arms the impact fuse and it should go bang when it impacts. If it doesn't go bang on impact, a timed fuse sets it off 3-7 seconds after the spoon is released (just like a normal M67).
For the Trivia inclined: Except for markings the only difference between the M67 and M33 is a safety clip and a place for it on the fuse.
An M33 becomes an M33A1 or M59 if you change to an M217 impact fuse. Near as I can tell the M33A1 and M59 are the same grenade, I don't know why they have different designations.
A lot of that goes on.
The M26 and M26A1 are the "lemon" shaped grenades as opposed to the M33 "baseball".
Add a safety clip and it's an M61.
Change the fuse to impact and it's an M26A2, or M57 with the safety clip.
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