My dad was a keen angler when he was a teenager during WW2; catching pike and other fish to supplement rationing for the family table He was also an enthusiastic chemistry set hobbyist maker of explosives and small bombs...
[different standards of health and safety way back in the 1940s...]
All his dreams came true when he witnessed locally stationed American GIs down at the river fishing with hand grenades...
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