Draft:Churnat Grenade

Churnat Grenade
Churnat Grenade
	The Churnat Grenade made by Alekos Papageorgiou
Type	Defensive Grenade
Place of origin	Kingdom of Greece
Service history
Used by	Greece
Wars	World War II
Production history
Designer	Alekos Papageorgiou
Manufacturer	Churnat

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The Churnat Grenade was a improvised defensive grenade made by the founder of the Churnat industry Alekos Papageorgiou, and used by the Greek resistance organization EAM-ELAS during World War II 1941-1944.

History

The needs of the war preoccupied the restless Papageorgiou all this time. He was inspired an method of making improvised defensive grenades with materials he could find in Pharmacies in those years. Almost all Pharmacies without much explanation gave the necessary materials for the needs of the race. Sulfur and potassium chloride. He particularly mentions the Pharmacy of Sporou.

Inside cut small tubes, he put the aforementioned materials together with nails and with a grenade ring of his own inspiration, he made the defensive grenades. At the test of the first improvised grenade at Fournas, the grenade was so effective that the English army present they could not believe it. Major Kint proposed to send him to England but he Denied.

References

Thanasis Tsampiras, Almyros sths floges, PEAEA-DSE, Almyros 2001.

External links

https://ethniki-antistasi-dse.gr/oplismos-tou-ELAS.html
https://kokkinosfakelos.blogspot.com/2012/05/blog-post_10.html