According to some accounts, at the
Quebec Conference in 1943 Lord Mountbatten brought a block of
pykrete along to demonstrate its potential to the admirals and generals who accompanied
Winston Churchill and
Franklin D. Roosevelt. Mountbatten entered the project meeting with two blocks and placed them on the ground. One was a normal ice block and the other was
pykrete. He then drew his service pistol and shot at the first block. It shattered and splintered. Next he fired at the
pykrete to give an idea of the resistance of that kind of ice to projectiles. The bullet ricocheted off the block, grazing the trouser leg of Admiral
Ernest King, and ended up in the wall.