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Topic: Hawkins grenade


In the News (Sat 28 Nov 09)

  
  Jam Tin Grenade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Jam-Tin (or Double Cylinder) was one of the many grenades designed for British use in the early part of the First World War in response to the failings of the No 1 grenade.
Initially when demand for grenades was at its greatest, engineers were encouraged to improvise their own grenades from the tins containing the soldier's ration of jam, hence the name.
Incidents with the improvised form and the supply of superior grenades led to official withdrawal of the design.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jam_Tin_Grenade   (210 words)

  
 No. 68 AT Grenade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Detonation occurred on impact when a striker in the tail of the grenade was thrown forward into the fuse.
The grenade was armed by removing a pin in the tail that held the striker.
The simple fins gave it some stability in the air and provided the grenade impacted the target at the proper angle (90 degrees) the charge would be effective.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/No_68_AT_Grenade   (275 words)

  
 William Dean Hawkins
Hawkins resumed the dangerous mission of clearing the limited beachhead of Japanese resistance, personally initiating an assault on a hostile position fortified by S enemy machineguns, and, crawling forward in the face of withering fire, boldly fired pointblank into the loopholes and completed the destruction with grenades.
Hawkins and his men were supposed to land at the base of the pier fifteen minutes ahead of the first assault wave at 0845.
Hawkins plan was to clear the way for his assault by throwing grenades at the pillbox, rushing forward, and then throwing a grenade through the aperture.
www.thestrelz.com /hawkins.htm   (2187 words)

  
 Manawatu Standard: local, national & world news from Manawatu's daily newspaper: Arrest as weapons stockpile seized   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Kenneth Daniel Hawkins, 38, allegedly had a claymore mine –; described in the Christchurch District Court as having "a 50m kill radius" – and a fragmentation grenade among a mass of other explosives, firearms and ammunition at a Hoon Hay house.
By then Hawkins had appeared in court on a single charge of illegal possession of a hand grenade, although the court was told further charges were likely.
Hawkins' neighbours said the normally quiet street had been all action since the arrival of armed police, but they assumed it had been over a P laboratory.
www.stuff.co.nz /stuff/manawatustandard/0,2106,3636269a6407,00.html   (842 words)

  
 UGR Reviews - MDK 2 (Dreamcast)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Hawkins vowed not to return to Earth until his research was vindicated.
Hawkins chance to prove himself finally arrived when aliens from another dimension riding in massive Minecrawlers attacked Earth and destroyed everything in their path.
Hawkins can fight at times, using both weapons (like an atomic toaster) and the environment (including a giant venus fly trap) to take down his foes.
www.ugr.net /reviews/dc/mdk2.htm   (1392 words)

  
 Navy SEALS mistakes, goofs and bloopers
The first time you see Hawkins starting to crawl out he has blood on his neck the camera cuts away then the next time you see him the blood is gone.
Continuity: When the team of navy seals are on the golf coarse, Hawkins spots his car being towed away, and when he chucks his golf club at it there are no bikes through the gate and only a car.
Revealing: When Hawkins shoots the hinges off of a door in the factory near the beginning, the camera cuts to inside the room, and its obviously been pre cut to smash so that the actors can easily go through the door with little or no effort.
www.moviemistakes.com /film1484   (1290 words)

  
 The Winchester Star   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
A grenade explosion blew him out of the trash pit he stood in, leaving him with neuromuscular and shrapnel damage in his left leg and shrapnel in his right leg.
Hawkins was one of three men injured in the grenade blast, but he probably sustained the brunt of it, he said.
Hawkins’ left leg bears long suture scars from where it was slit open and drained of the blood that built up after small blood vessels ruptured.
www.winchesterstar.com /TheWinchesterStar/050521/Area_wounds.asp   (1066 words)

  
 Almost 60 years later, Vet gets Medal - Wehrmacht-Awards.com Militaria Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Hawkins, raised in Richmond, Va., was just 19 on Christmas Eve 1944 when he was wounded -- from shrapnel -- the first time atop a ridge his unit held near the Belgian city of Elsenborn.
Hawkins' troop was charged with scouting the enemy, and slipping back to inform superiors of numbers, positions, ammunition depots and weaponry.
Hawkins' recuperation was short, but six days into 1945 a German hand grenade landed near his right foot.
www.wehrmacht-awards.com /forums/showthread.php?t=56611   (728 words)

  
 CorpWatch : NIGERIA: Nigerian Militants Free Six of Nine Foreign Hostages
Hawkins was released to a group of journalists after they finished a tour of the creeks of the Niger delta.
Hawkins, dressed in a blue and red checked shirt and canvas olive trousers, said his eyeglasses were damaged when the militants captured him.
Hawkins said the hostages' daily routine consisted of getting up, brushing their teeth, washing clothes, followed by a mid-morning snack and then leisure time.
www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=13334   (887 words)

  
 LOCAL 8 :: KFMB Stations, San Diego, California
Nine militants wearing fl masks, military fatigues and carrying Kalashnikov assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenade launchers brought the hostage to a group of journalists by boat in the Niger Delta.
Hawkins, who said he was from a small town in Texas, said he would turn 69 on March 1.
Hawkins, unshaven with gray hair, said his lunch Friday consisted of eggs, noodles and tea.
www.kfmb.com /printable?id=40313   (563 words)

  
 The Adrenaline Vault Review of Vietcong   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Hawkins chats on board the chopper with machine gunner C.J. Hornster, a tough M-60 toting hothead with a scruffy face and a bandanna wound tightly around his head, presumably to keep his ego bound inside his skull.
Hawkins is given a brief opportunity to scope the layout of Nui Pek.
Hawkins' voice doesn’t seem to match his gritty appearance, but most of the other character voices fit their representations well.
www.avault.com /reviews/print_review.asp?game=vietcong   (3125 words)

  
 Why War? A 'heartbreaking' decision: MSF leaves Afghanistan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Vickie Hawkins was the acting head of the Médecin Sans Frontières mission in Afghanistan when a Toyota Land Cruiser that had been carrying five of her colleagues was dragged back to the agency's compound without them.
During the war in 2001, Hawkins said, US soldiers were driving around in civilian clothes in white cars, taking on the appearance of humanitarian aid workers.
Hawkins said that a credible investigation from the Afghan government would be one prerequisite for the agency's return to Afghanistan.
www.why-war.com /news/2004/07/28/aheartbr.html   (1002 words)

  
 Army Times - R&R - History.
He was shot in the chest but managed to drop a grenade into the pillbox, killing the occupants.
His name and a carved Medal of Honor, both gilded, are inscribed at the Honolulu Memorial, adjacent to the Punchbowl — the National Military Cemetery of the Pacific in Oahu, Hawaii, — where those never recovered or who were buried at sea are memorialized.
Hawkins and Bordelon were interred at the Punchbowl, but in 1995 Bordelon’s remains were moved to Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio.
www.armytimes.com /story.php?f=1-292308-269307.php   (766 words)

  
 U.S. Special Operations Medal of Honor Recipients G-L
Undaunted by the enemy rockets and grenades impacting all around him, 1st Lt. Hagen desperately advanced upon the destroyed bunker until he was fatally wounded by enemy small arms and automatic weapons fire.
At dawn on the following day, 1st Lt. Hawkins resumed the dangerous mission of clearing the limited beachhead of Japanese resistance, personally initiating an assault on a hostile position fortified by 5 enemy machineguns, and, crawling forward in the face of withering fire, boldly fired pointblank into the loopholes and completed the destruction with grenades.
By absorbing the full force of the exploding grenade with his body and that of the enemy, he saved the other members of his command group from death or serious injury.
www.globalspecialoperations.com /mohgl.html   (4199 words)

  
 AVault | PC | Vietcong Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Hawkins, equipped with a silenced pistol, a flashlight, and a few glowsticks, must brave the dark winding corridors to meet his objectives.
Other missions give Hawkins a chance to use some powerful military hardware, like an M-60 mounted on the side of a Huey, or the ability to call in an air strike to clear out a heavily entrenched enemy position.
Hawkins can only hold one weapon of each class (pistol, rifle, and grenade) at any given time.
www.avault.com /reviews/review_temp.asp?game=vietcong&page=2   (768 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Nigerian militants show American hostage to reporters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Nine militants carrying Kalashnikov assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenade launchers carried the captive, who identified himself as Macon Hawkins of Texas, by boat in the Niger Delta.
Hawkins, unshaven with gray hair, said the captives were "being treated quite well.
Hawkins said his lunch Friday consisted of eggs, noodles and tea.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-02-24-nigerian-militants_x.htm   (523 words)

  
 [No title]
Hawkins' Controls --------------------- D-Pad Up/Down: Scroll through available items D-Pad Left: Select item to hold in Left hand D-Pad Right: Select item to hold in Right hand R Trigger: Combine items in Right and Left hands Dr Hawkins' levels are more puzzle oriented than Max's or Kurt's.
Sniper Grenade Flys like a regular bullet but explodes like a Grenade upon impact Bouncing Bullet Ricochets off walls to hit it's target Sniper Shield Shields you from damage for a short amount of time, there are 3 levels to the shield represented by 3 layers on your Sniper Screen.
HAWKINS ----------- *The Doc has it the easiest when it comes to fighting Zizzy, he doesn't get knocked down by his outside attacks, doesn't have to destroy the eyes, and can hit the Brain from the ground.
www.cheatcc.com /dc/sg/mdk_2.txt   (22630 words)

  
 repro
These are real smoke grenade bodies that some company bought off an overrun and painted up to look like other chemical grenades.
The M18 grenades have the same markings on the fuze, these will be harder to tell due to the body being correct for a smoke grenade but if the fuze is marked as above, be suspicious.
RE: the stick grenades, the handles are excellent, but the base caps, whilst appearing identical are brass or brass plated under the paint and have a slightly different thread to them so they are not interchangeable with an original.
members.shaw.ca /dwlynn/repro/repro.htm   (2388 words)

  
 Ships in World War II Bearing Kansas Names, Compiiled by Harold J. Henderson, May 1947
Quick to act as a grenade, hurled by the Japanese, was about to drop into the open turret hatch, Sergeant Timmerman unhesitatingly blocked the opening with his body, holding the grenade against his chest and taking the brunt of the explosion.
Hawkins (DD-873), launched October 7, 1944; commissioned February 10, 1945; Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Tex., shipbuilder; named in honor of First Lt. William Deane Hawkins (1914-1943) of the marine corps, a native of Fort Scott.
The first to disembark from the jeep lighter, First Lieutenant Hawkins unhesitatingly moved forward under heavy enemy fire at the end of the Betio pier, neutralizing emplacements in coverage of troops assaulting the main beach positions.
www.kshs.org /publicat/khq/1947/47_2_henderson.htm   (4920 words)

  
 BBC Cumbria - LoudER - local - Sadie Hawkins Dance
In case you haven't heard of SADIE HAWKINS DANCE, they are a hyped-up, female-fronted melodic rock quintet with hard metal and emo punk icing...and more fret-fireworks than a cold November's eve.
With intelligent, spiky lyrics, SHD urge their listeners to harness the energy generated at a live gig, and use it to fight the good fight, remembering that there is more to life than consuming and individualism.
Grenade causes quite a technicolour splash where e'er she tottles in her 6 inch stilettoes.
www.bbc.co.uk /cumbria/entertainment/louder/local/sadiehawkinsdance/index.shtml   (370 words)

  
 Not sure where to put this: Grenades - THR
Grenade, hand, No. 74, AKA the "Sticky Bomb" -- A soft bag in a case with a resinous substance on it.
Grenade, anti-tank, No. 75 (Hawkins Grenade) -- Designed to be tossed in front of a tank, which hopefully would run over it and set off the crush igniters, blowing off the track.
Originally touted as a demolition grenade, found a lot of use as a room, bunker, pillbox, and cave clearing grenade.
www.thehighroad.org /showthread.php?t=50517   (1436 words)

  
 The Daily News Online
Despite the weaponry arrayed around him, Macon Hawkins, 68, of Kosciusko, Texas, appeared to be in good spirits and said he and the other hostages were safe.
Hawkins joked with the journalists about the group's conditions in captivity, which include air conditioned rooms to sleep in and noodles for meals.
As they approached, they made a series of dramatic circling maneuvers and encouraged journalists, who were in two boats of their own, to take pictures as the white flags of the militants' movement whipped in the breeze.
www.tdn.com /articles/2006/02/25/nation_world/news06.txt   (820 words)

  
 Armed Group Shuts Down Part of Nigeria's Oil Output - New York Times
Macon Hawkins of Kosciusko, Tex., an employee of a pipe-laying company, is a hostage of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta.
They showed one of the nine hostages they seized last week from a barge operated by an oil company contractor, and said they were prepared to seize more hostages and blow up more oil facilities if their demands were not met.
Hawkins said, "and they are going to fight till death.
www.nytimes.com /2006/02/25/international/africa/25hostages.html?ex=1298523600&en=65af97e0017832d5&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss   (916 words)

  
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Hawkins is a scientific genius who perhaps is ahead of his time and therefore, unappreciated.
Hawkins is more adept at using his brain than firepower, but he does have a few ways to fight back - once he juices up his toaster!
Hawkins jumps out of the elevator with a flying kick while doing his best Bruce Lee battle cry.
image.com.com /gamespot/images/screenshots/gs/faqs/mdk2.txt   (12630 words)

  
 Young People - The Rayleigh Bath-chair Murder
Experts were called and soon discounted the possibility of a bomb and it was eventually decided that the detonation had been that of a British anti-tank mine known as the number 75 Hawkins Grenade.
The wreckage was found to be that of a wheelchair and the woman identified as Mrs Doris Irene Mitchell of Hillview Road.
Also, Private Brown had been trained in the use of the Hawkins Grenade that was designed for use by infantrymen to blow the tracks from tanks.
www.essex.police.uk /offbeat/o_mu_48.php   (1457 words)

  
 Infantry Equipment page
This was gravity Grenade, which when thrown caused the safety tape to be pulled clear by a weight and caused the Grenade to explode on impact and was made of Bakelite.
This "grenade" had a hollow tail, flared to the rear and in the forward end a small cartridge was fitted.
The spigot guided the grenade for the first few moments of flight, but the diameter of the bomb was not restricted by the diameter of the launcher barrel, thus allowing the PIAT to be made lighter than conventional mortars, while still launching a charge of equivalent weight and size.
www.btinternet.com /~ian.a.paterson/equipinfantry.htm   (5638 words)

  
 CBS "EXCLUSIVE" Features Iraqi Men Who Are Killing U.S. Soldiers (Journalist 1st,American 2nd?)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In the desert with a few of their rocket-propelled grenade launchers on display, David Hawkins, through a translator, relayed the propaganda of three or four men wrapped in white from head to toe.
Hawkins explained: "In an exclusive interview with CBS News, three men who claim to have participated in several recent and deadly attacks on U.S. soldiers say they're not doing it for love of Saddam -- but instead for God and their country.
Hawkins, Blather and CBS are guilty of treason and should be punished.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/950764/posts   (3664 words)

  
 GameSpot:Video Games PC Xbox 360 PS3 Wii PSP DS PS2 PlayStation 2 GameCube GBA PlayStation 3
Listen to Hawkins explain the situation: The Atlantis, no survivors, the artifact theory, the humble kai holding the DNA of a powerful ancient race, the tosc...it's all come to this.
While Hawkins delivers his speech, canvass the room's edges to grab the available ammunition, health, and shield power-ups.
Hawkins was right--the kai turns into a powerful tosc, and it breaks loose from containment.
www.gamespot.com /gamespot/gameguides/pc/unreal2/39.html   (618 words)

  
 Interplay Entertainment Corp.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
There are grenades and Health power-ups for you to collect from both sides of the drop-off.
When you regain control of Dr. Hawkins and the wall opens, a Generator and quite a few annoying Poopsie’s are waiting for you.
Hawkins is unhappy that the ship is such a mess after the BFB was (temporarily) defeated in Level 3, so the Doc gets his computer to locate Kurt Hectic and “beam” him back to the ship.
www.interplay.com /support/membership/displayhint.asp?file=65   (21456 words)

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