[RANGERAIRBORNE]

No, I think that this phony story about a mysterious "other soldier" who dropped a grenade is bullcrap. The original and undoubtedly true story is that this unskilled junior officer had a grenade hooked to his LBG by the ring, and it simply came off- and he was too slow to recognize the danger to retrieve it and get rid of it safely. (I have had to scramble after trainees for grenades- it takes a certain amount of situational awareness, not to mention quickness to tretrieve this situation).
All of these later fairy tales are to cover-up for his own incometence- which could easily have killed several other men.

[templar]

All of these later fairy tales are to cover-up for his own incometence- which could easily have killed several other men.

I would be liking to see any evidence that supports this. There were others present from what I understand, any of them concur?