TITLE:        Why US Soldiers Kept Live Grenades Under Their Pillows 🛌
CHANNEL:      The Art Of War  (@theartofwarrr)
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A US soldier would straighten the pin of the grenade and place tape on the spoon

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FULL SCRIPT:
A US soldier would straighten the pin of the grenade and place tape on the spoon before going to sleep during World War II. He did this because the Japanese could silently attack the camp, kill or capture American soldiers, and then torture them in prisons. To prevent this, soldiers would sleep with a grenade under their pillow, and a loosened pin would allow them to detonate it quicker, taking as many Japanese with them as possible.

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TIMED:
[000.08] A US soldier would straighten the pin of
[002.00] the grenade and place tape on the spoon
[003.84] before going to sleep during World War
[005.44] II. He did this because the Japanese
[007.44] could silently attack the camp, kill or
[009.60] capture American soldiers, and then
[011.36] torture them in prisons. To prevent
[013.12] this, soldiers would sleep with a
[014.64] grenade under their pillow, and a
[016.00] loosened pin would allow them to
[017.28] detonate it quicker, taking as many
[018.96] Japanese with them as possible.
