Ordnance Committee Reports
Ordnance Committee Reports were used by the US to report on all matters dealing with Ordnance. Whatever major changes were made to Ordnance were included in the reports. They are the main reference as to when and what was happening. They are hard to find and I only have a few, but I can give a listing of some that have to do with grenades. If we can find copies of them I will happily post them here.
| OCM Item Number | Date | Contents | ||
| 1665 | 16 Sept 1921 | Grenades for use in Training | ||
| 2870 | 13 Apr 1921 | Practice Type Hand Grenades | ||
| 23 Mar 1923 | Test of Practice Hand Grenades | |||
| 3066 | 22 June 1923 | Rifle Grenades Obsoleted | ||
| 3293 | 5 Oct 1923 | Explosive Grenades | ||
| 3332 | 19 Oct 1923 | Hand Grenades Loaded with Trojan Powder Unserviceable | ||
| 3383 | 15 Nov 1923 | Smoke and Lachrymatory Grenades | ||
| 4298 | 1 Dec 1924 | Test of Firing Mechanism for Chemical Rifle Grenades | ||
| 4365 | 30 Dec 1924 | Modification of Grenade Development Policy | ||
| 4583 | 2 Apr 1925 | Defects in Mk. I (WP) Smoke Rifle Grenade | ||
| 4735 | 4 June 1925 | Modification in Fragmentation Requirements for Grenades | ||
| 4796 | 2 July 1925 | Practice Type Hand Grenade | ||
| 4817 | 16 July 1925 | Test of Firing Mechanisms for (WP) Grenades | ||
| 4848 | 30 July 1925 | Design of Hand Grenade by Mr. Solomon Lebensart | ||
| 5404 | 6 May 1926 | Painting of Fragmentation Hand Grenades | ||
| 5597 | 29 July 1926 | Observations to Determine Suitability of FM Grenades for Training | ||
| 5637 | 19 Aug 1926 | Approval of Dummy Hand Grenade | ||
| 5761 | 21 Oct 1926 | Adoption of E.C. Poweder as Standard Grenade Explosive | ||
| 5789 | 4 Nov 1926 | Practice Type Hand Grenade | ||
| 5834 | 2 Dec 1926 | Practice Type Hand Grenade | ||
| 5905 | 13 Jan 1927 | Smoke Grenades for Training Purposes | ||
| 6084 | 17 Mar 1927 | Prematures with (WP) Rifle Grenade | ||
| 6165 | 14 Apr 1927 | Hand Grenade No. 201M by Driggs Ordnance & Engineering Co. Inc | ||
| 6358 | 14 July 1927 | Design of Projector for Hand Grenade by Robert Grey McConnell | ||
| 6530 | 13 Oct 1927 | Firing Mechanisms for (WP) Rifle Grenades | ||
| 6562 | 27 Oct 1927 | CN Hand Grenades | ||
| 6615 | 23 Nov 1927 | Billant Grenade Discharger and Grenade | ||
| 6778 | 9 Feb 1927 | Nomenclature for Fuzes for Hand and Rifle Grenades | ||
| 7279 | 1 Nov 1928 | Rifle Grenade Preliminary Requirements | ||
| 7624 | 25 Apr 1929 | Firing Mechanisms for (WP) Rifle Grenade | ||
| 7625 | 25 Apr 1929 | Fuze for CN Rifle Grenade | ||
| 7763 | 18 Jul 1929 | Smoke Hand and Rifles Grenades, Standardation of FM Filling | ||
| 7789 | 1 Aug 1929 | Practice Type Hand Grenade | ||
| 7803 | 8 Aug 1929 | CN Loaded Hand Grenades | ||
| 8760 | 26 Feb 1931 | Service Test of Practice Type Mark II Fragmentation Hand Grenade | ||
| 9107 | 6 Aug 1931 | Test Fragmentation Rifle Grenade | ||
| 9444 | 21 Jan 1932 | Development Policy for Hand & Rifle Grenades | ||
| 10598 | 6 Apr 1933 | Chemical Candles Transferred to Chief of Ordnance | ||
| 11015 | 5 Oct 1933 | Hand Grenades (CN-DM) M6 and (CN) M7 for Disciplinary Barracks | ||
| 11436 | 26 April 1934 | CN Grenade Submitted by B&T Munitions Company | ||
| 12181 | 13 Jun 1935 | Grenade Development Policy, Elimination of Requirement for Combination Hand and Rifle Grenade | ||
| 12185 | 20 Jun 1935 | Smoke Hand Grenade (HC) M8 Obsoleted | ||
| 12217 | 11 Jul 1935 | Weszycki Combination Hand or Rifle Grenade | ||
| 12219 | 11 Jul 1935 | Grenade - Development Policy- Elimination of Requirement for Combination Hand and Rifle Grenade | ||
| 12654 | 13 Feb 1936 | Smoke Hand Grenade (HC) M8 Standardized | ||
| 12678 | 5 Mar 1936 | US Rifle, Caliber .30, M1917, For Use in Firing Rod Type Grenades | ||
| 13514 | 18 Mar 1937 | Emergency Signals for Air Corps | ||
| 14406 | 24 Mar 1938 | Accident in A-17 Aeroplane with Smoke Hand Grenades, HCM8 | ||
| 14945 | 30 Mar 1939 | Obsoletion and Discontinuance of Rifle Grenades | ||
| 15414 | 19 Oct 1939 | Fuzes, igniting, Hand Grenade, M10A1 and M200A1, Metal parts for- Approval of. | ||
| 15812 | 17 May 1940 | Explosive TNT Now Classified as Substitute for EC Powder Reclassified as Limited Standard | ||
| 16025 | 15 Aug 1940 | Carrier, Rifle Grenade Discharger | ||
| 16330 | 12 Dec 1940 | Incendiary Hand Grenades, Military Characteristics. | ||
| 16387 | 19 Dec 1940 | OCM16330 approved as Required Type | ||
| 16504 | 27 Feb 1941 | |||
| 16565 | 20 Mar 1941 | Hand Grenades, Practice and Dummy | ||
| 16588 | 27 Mar 1941 | Incendiary Hand Grenade, Antitank. | ||
| 16621 | 10 Apr 1941 | Cancellation of US Army Specification No. 50-13-1 Explosive for Hand and Rifle Grenade | ||
| 16628 | 17 Apr 1941 | Incendiary Hand Grenade | ||
| 16665 | 24 Apr 1941 | Cancellation of US Army Specification 50-13-1, Explosive for Hand and Rifle Grenades | ||
| 17220 | 11 Sept 1941 | Transferral of Responsiblility for Investigation, Design, Development, Storage, and Issue of all Incendiary Munitions which are in general consumed in the Incendiary Process from the Ordnance Department to Chemical Warfare Service | ||
| 17588-1 | 1 Jan 1942 | Offensive Hand Grenade, Mark III Standardized | ||
| 17889 | 5 Mar 1942 | Development of projector for Antitank Grenade | ||
| 18223 | 14 May 1942 | Burning Time of Fuzes for Hand Grenade MkII and Gas Grenade | ||
| 18695 | 27 Aug 1942 | Initiated Development Project for Projection of Mk. II Hand Grenade from M1 Grenade Launcher | ||
| 18825 | 1 Sept 1942 | White Smoke Grenade, AN-M8 Approved as an Army & Navy Standard | ||
| 12 Oct 1942 | Painting of HE Loaded ammunition | |||
| 19688 | 11 Feb 1943 | Grenade Projection Adapter M1 Recommended for Standardization | ||
| 19917 | 11 Mar 1943 | Grenade Projection Adapter M1 Approved | ||
| 20894 | 1 July 1943 | Offensive Hand Grenade Mark III Reclassified as Limited Standard article | ||
| 20956 | 8 Jul 1943 | Projection of Chemical Grenades From Rifles and Carbines | ||
| 21208 | 5 Aug 1943 | Practice Hand Grenade, Mk. II Standardized | ||
| 21552 | 16 Sept 1943 | Hand & Rifle Grenades- Review of Developments, Initiation of New Development Projects - Reclassification of Hand Grenad fuze, M10A2 | ||
| 21683 | 15 Sept 1943 | Mk.II Practice Hand Grenade Standardization Approved | ||
| 22093 | 11 Nov 1943 | Shipment of Fragmentation Hand Grenades for Test by Infantry Board | ||
| 23321 | 30 Mar 1944 | Hand Grenade Fuze, T2 - Recommended for Limited Procurement | ||
| 23393 | 6 Apr 1944 | Fragmentation Hand Grenade Mk. 11A1 (EC Powder Loaded) Reclassified as Limited Standard and Mk. II (TNT Loaded) classified as Standard | ||
| 23532 | 20 Apr 1944 | Standardization of Smoke Rifle Grenades Recommended | ||
| 23619 | 27 Apr 1944 | T2 Hand Grenade Fuze Approved for Limited Procurement | ||
| 25722 | 7 Nov 1944 | Fragmentation Hand Grenades, Beano (T13) | ||
| 25952 | 7 Dec 1944 | T15 Offensive Hand Grenade | ||
| 26026 | 14 Dec 1944 | Fragmentation Hand Grenade, Beano (T13) - Limited Procurement and Additional Development Recommended | ||
| 26176 | 28 Dec 1944 | Fragmentation Hand Grenade, Beano (T13) - Limited Procurement and Additional Development Approved | ||