M26 hand grenade

The M26 hand grenade was developed in the years right after World War II. This was the first model of hand grenade which still used a cast iron body, but which enclosed either notched wire or shot to serve as the lethal fragments rather than the grenade body itself. This new type of grenade was much more reliable than the old Mk 2 "Pineapple" grenades. 
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==Background Information==
===The Korean War and the 1950s===
The M26 was developed and adopted by the U.S. Army just before the Korean War (1950-1953). However, since most units still had huge inventories of Mk 2 "Pineapple" grenades left over after World War II, the M26 rarely saw action in the Korean War. Throughout the 1950s it was the issued hand grenade for all Army units, despite the fact that we still had huge leftover inventories of the Mk 2 as well. 
===The Vietnam War and the 1960s=== 
In the early 1960s, another improved version of the M26 was adopted, the M61. The M61 had a thin sheet metal body with a notched coiled flat wire and improved fuse. Though the M61 was now the official new hand grenade of the U.S. Armed Forces, the U.S. shipped tens of thousands of existing stock of Mk 2 Pineapple and M26 grenades to South Vietnam, for use by the ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam). These were stored in huge military warehouses throughout the country and many M26s were provided to American troops in the field as well, despite the fact that all new grenade production was supposed to supply only the M61. 
The massive increase in munitions requests resulted in a fast retooling of the older M26 line producing an updated grenade. The M26A1 had a better fuse and a different explosive compound. Eventually the M26A1 slowed production and halted, as did the M61 when production of the newer M67 ramped up.
During the conflict, a mix of M26/M26A1 and M61 hand grenades was in use by American forces in Vietnam. Most authors of war books or military articles never bother to reveal the complicated munitions supply issues of the conflict, and most only refer to the M26 as the hand grenade of choice, despite the fact that it is more likely that the virtually identical M61 is really the hand grenade that was used. 
==M26 Hand Grenade==
===Film===
Title 	Actor 	Character 	Note 	Date
Platoon 	Robert "Rock" Galotti	Huffmeister 	 	1986
Platoon 	Kevin Dillon 	Bunny 	 	1986
Platoon 	 	U.S. Army soldiers 	 	1986
Demon of Paradise 	 	Soldiers 	 	1987
In Country 	 	US troops 	 	1987
Lethal Weapon (1987) 	Danny Glover 	Roger Murtaugh 	Disguised smoke grenade 	1987
Lethal Weapon (1987) 	 	 	Seen in crashed car 	1987
Bulletproof 	Darlanne Fluegel 	Captain Devon Shepard 	 	1988
Casualties of War 	 	U.S. Army soldiers 	 	1989
Red Scorpion 	 	Kallunda 	taken off Russian soldier	1989
L. A. Bounty 	Sybil Danning 	Ruger 	 	1989
Die Hard 2 	William Sadler 	Col. Stuart 	 	1990
Die Hard 2 	 	Terrorists 	 	1990
Enemy 	Peter Fonda 	Ken Andrews 	 	1990
Enemy 	Tia Carrere 	Mai Chang 	 	1990
Do or Die 	Dona Speir 	Donna Hamilton 	 	1991
Hard Boiled 	Chow Yun-Fat 	Tequila Yuen 	 	1992
Hard Hunted 	 	pilot 	 	1992
Never Say Die 	Billy Drago 	Reverend James 	 	1994
Forrest Gump 	Gary Sinise 	2nd Lt. Dan Taylor 	 	1994
Forrest Gump 	 	U.S. Army soldiers 	 	1994
Mercenary 	Olivier Gruner 	'Hawk' 	 	1996
Tomorrow Never Dies 	 	 	Used as part of IED 	1997
Recoil 	Gary Daniels 	Det. Ray Morgan 	 	1998
Recoil 	 	Marcus Sloan and other robbers 	 	1998
Free Money 	Thomas Haden Church 	Larry 	 	1998
The Siege 	 	Terrorist 	 	1998
Cross Fire 	 	 	on the poster 	2000
We Were Soldiers 	Jsu Garcia 	Cpt. Tony Nadal 	 	2002
We Were Soldiers 	 	U.S. Army soldiers 	 	2002
Mercenary for Justice 	Langley Kirkwood 	Kruger 	 	2006
Mercenary for Justice 	Vivian Bieldt 	Dekerk 	 	2006
Mercenary for Justice 	 	Mercenaries 	 	2006
Invisible Target 	Ka Wah Lam 	Senior Superintendent Cheung Man Yi	 	2007
Inception 	Ken Watanabe 	Saito 	With white paint 	2010
Tomorrow, When the War Began 	Ashleigh Cummings 	Robyn Mathers 	 	2010
Rise of the Zombies 	Mariel Hemingway 	Dr. Lynn Snyder 	 	2012
Rise of the Zombies 	LeVar Burton 	Dr. Dan Halpern 	 	2012
Get the Gringo 	 	 	 	2012
Battleground 	 	 	 	2012
The Heat 	Sandra Bullock 	FBI Special Agent Sarah Ashburn 	 	2013
Neomanila 	 	 	 	2017
Kong: Skull Island 	Shea Whigham 	Captain Earl Cole 	 	2017
The Post 	 	U.S. Marines 	 	2017
Tokyo Living Dead Idol 	uncredited 	Imperial Japanese officer 	 	2018
Project Gutenberg 	Justin Cheung 	Brother Four 	 	2018
Project Gutenberg 	 	Merlin Guerilla soldier 	 	2018
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw	Vanessa Kirby 	Hattie Shaw 	 	2019
6 Underground 	 	Turgistanian soldier 	 	2019
Everything Everywhere All at Once 	James Hong 	Gong Gong 	 	2022
Outside 	Sid Lucero 	Francis Abel 	 	2024
=== Television ===
Title 	Actor 	Character 	Note/Episode 	Date
Criminal Minds - Season 3 	Michael Cudlitz 	Francis Goehring	"Identity" (S3E07) 	2007
Tour of Duty 	 	U.S. soldiers 	 	1987-1990
The Walking Dead - Season 5 	 	Undead Soldier 	"Spend" (S5E14) 	2015
Fear the Walking Dead - Season 4	Colman Domingo 	Victor Strand 	"Just In Case" (S4E06), "The Wrong Side of Where You Are Now" (S4E07)	2018
True Detective - Season 3 	Michael Greyeyes	Brett Woodward 	 	2019
Jack Ryan - Season 2 	John Krasinski 	Jack Ryan 	 	2019
===Anime===
Title 	Character 	Note 	Air Date
Violence Jack: Hell's Wind Hen 	Hell's Wind biker	 	1990
New Dream Hunter Rem: Massacre in the Phantasmic Labyrinth	 	is seen in the Geppetto base 	1992
New Dominion Tank Police 	 	Seen among confiscated contraband	1993
Hyper Police 	Mobster 	 	1997
Amazing Nurse Nanako 	Soldier 	 	1999
Najica Blitz Tactics 	Lila 	 	2001
Gunslinger Girl 	Enrico Beldini 	 	2003
Elfen Lied 	Sato 	 	2004
The Strange Case Files of Ryoko Yakushiji 	Marianne 	 	2008
Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino 	Franco 	 	2008
Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino 	Mob Bodyguard 	 	2008
Lycoris Recoil 	Mobster 	 	2022
=== Video Games ===
Game Title 	Appears as 	Mods 	Notation 	Release Date
WWII G.I. 	Grenade 	 	Becomes Mk 2 Hand Grenade when picked up 	1999
007: The World Is Not Enough 	Fragmentation Grenade	 	 	2000
007: The World Is Not Enough 	Stun Grenade 	flash-bang instead of HE-Frag	With blue body 	2000
Ghost Recon 	FRAG 	 	 	2001
Operation Flashpoint 	 	 	 	2001
Max Payne 	 	 	 	2001
Time Crisis 3 	 	 	Unusable 	2003
Counter-Strike: Source 	 	 	 	2004
Conflict: Vietnam 	 	 	 	2004
Elite Warriors Vietnam 	 	 	 	2005
Battlefield 2: Modern Combat 	Frag Grenade 	 	 	2005
Black 	 	 	 	2006
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 	M61 	 	 	2006
Eternal Damnation 	 	 	Model from Postal 2; unusable 	2006
Crysis 	 	Without pins or spoons 	 	2007
Time Crisis IV 	 	 	Seen with some enemies in FPS mode, When they are killed, they drop Mk 2 hand grenades instead	2007
Grand Theft Auto IV 	 	With detonation warning tone 	 	2008
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames 	 	 	 	2008
7.62 High Calibre 	 	 	M61 	2008
Resident Evil 5 	 	 	not usable 	2009
Rogue Warrior 	 	 	 	2009
Art of Murder: The Secret Files 	 	 	 	2010
Battle: Los Angeles 	 	 	 	2011
War Inc. Battlezone 	 	 	 	2011
Arctic Combat 	 	 	 	2012
Far Cry 3 	 	 	 	2012
Project Reality: Vietnam 	 	 	M61 version 	2012
Yakuza: Dead Souls 	Heavy Grenade 	 	oversized body 	2012
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 	 	 	 	2013
Warface 	 	 	 	2013
Far Cry 4 	 	 	 	2014
Rainbow Six Siege 	 	 	Unusable 	2015
Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades	 	 	 	2016
Rising Storm 2: Vietnam 	 	 	M61 	2017
Ghost Recon Breakpoint 	 	 	 	2019
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War 	 	 	unusable 	2020
Military Conflict: Vietnam 	 	 	 	2022
== L2A2 Hand Grenade ==
A variant of the M26 used by the British military, prior to the adoption of the L109 hand grenade. Aside from the markings, the other distinguishing feature is the fuze design, which is notably different from that of its American counterpart.
=== Film ===
Title 	Actor 	Character 	Note	Date
Royal Warriors	Hing-Yin Kam 	Wong Han aka Cock	 	1986
Royal Warriors	Wai-Man Chan 	Roy Lee aka Tiger	 	1986
Royal Warriors	Hiroyuki Sanada	Kenji Yamamoto 	 	1986
=== Television ===
Title/Episode 	Actor	Character 	Note	Date
Soldier Soldier	 	British Army soldiers	 	1991-1997
=== Video Games ===
Game Title 	Appears as	Mods	Notation 	Release Date
Project IGI: I'm Going In 	 	 	 	2000
Tactical Ops: Assault on Terror 	HE Grenade	 	 	2002
Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix	 	 	 	2002
IGI 2: Covert Strike 	 	 	 	2003
Killing Floor 	 	 	Explosions can be "stacked"	2009
Project Reality: Falklands 	 	 	 	2012
===Anime===
Title 	Character	Note 	Air Date
New Dream Hunter Rem: Massacre in the Phantasmic Labyrinth	 	is seen in the Geppetto base	1992
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Category:Grenade