The guy the Russian is based on would do something like this. Nearest has stories of his helicopter crew chief and pilot digging out armloads of munitions from an “abandoned” munitions bunker and playing with them. The dumb bullet-and-a-hammer fireworks, of course.

Note: for those of you writing “war” comics, this is the kind of crap that goes on in the field. Stateside — or Reichside — at least until the enemy crosses the border, there is something called the Unauthorized Discharge of a Firearm. A comics artist I’ve seen recently — whose work looks like mine in 1963, and I like it a lot — shows a sergeant discharging a firearm in garrison, just to get the men’s attention.

I tried to convince artist that the next scene would be funnier than hell, with the sergeant on the carpet in front of his Lieutenant, but I couldn’t explain Military Fear. Guess you hadda be there.