The Viven-Bessières rifle grenade, named after its inventors[1][note 1], also known as "VB grenade", and officially referred to as the "Viven-Bessières shell" in the French Army instruction manual, was an infantry weapon in use with the French Army from 1916 onwards.[3]
^Dictionnaire de la Grande Guerre 1914-1918, F. Cochet & R. Porte (dir.), pages 1062-1063.
^Quoted by Marie Llosa in her article The work of women in the war factories of southern France (1914-1918), published in the journal Annales du Midi : revue archéologique, historique et philologique de la France méridionale, Tome 120, N°262, 2008, numéro thématique Regards du Midi sur la Grande Guerre, edited by Rémy Cazals, page 207.
^For example : Instruction sur le combat à la grenade, Ministère de la Guerre, 3eme Bureau, 7 April 1916, corrigendum to page 35. It is specified that the discharger is called "canon VB".
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