Item title: | Artillery, mortar, small arms and tear gas projectiles |
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Location: | Australian War Memorial (AWM55 5/26) View information about obtaining a copy of this document |
AJRP details | |
AJRP module: | Australian War Memorial official records |
AJRP series: | Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) publications |
AJRP sub-series: | ATIS enemy publications |
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Location details | |
Institution: | Australian War Memorial |
Call number: | AWM55 5/26 |
Inst. series: | AWM55 |
Inst. sub-series: | AWM55 5/- |
Item: | EP-312 |
Item qualities | |
Quantity / desc: | 127 pages |
Access: | Open |
Item type: | Unpublished, Official |
Category: | Information report, Inventory |
Item content | |
Creation date (d/m/y): | 25/1/1945 |
Conflict code: | Pacific War (1941-1945) |
Keywords: | AMMUNITION, ARTILLERY, JAPANESE MACHINE GUNS, GRENADE LAUNCHERS, GRENADES, FUZES, DEMOLITIONS, EXPLOSIVES, TECHNICAL MANUALS |
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Japanese unit names: | 10th Depot Div Ord Dept 7th Div Home Depot Ord Dept |
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Languages: | English |
Area: | Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands) |
Content: | This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) translation of a Japanese publication captured at an unknown location (presumably Melanesia) on 5 June 1944. This item is a file entitled "Ordnance materials text, part 1", issued by 10th Depot Division Ordnance Department and the 7th Division Home Depot Ordnance Department, dated September to November 1938. It contains a chart of 30 explosives used in field ammunition; 56 cross-section diagrams and notes on fuses, artillery and mortar projectiles, small arms cartridges, grenades and signal flares; charts explaining the markings on fuses and shells; specifications for a Type 94 grenade discharger, 38 cross-section sketches of smoke, illuminating and incendiary shells; a table of 56 types of ammunition and fuses used in 21 types of guns; specifications tables for ammunition for machine-guns, rifles and pistols (including tear gas bullets); classifications for 62 fuses; equipment used on annual manoeuvres; a chart giving method of use of five hand grenades; and a sketch of blasting caps and cartridge cases. |
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Last modified: | 03/05/2009 09:04:51 AM |
Source: | AJRP staff |
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