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305 mm Italian Chemical
- Thread starter Chris
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That was a well known discovery. The surprising part was that the Slovenians actually disassembled them. Risking an accidental release of that much phosgene was a bit daring as once it began you would have little hope of slowing it down.
Near the same time the Italians recovered a significant number of these projectiles themselves, as a part of 36,000 pre-1946 chemical weapons buried at the Spilimbergo site - themselves part of an estimated 1 million illegally buried conventional items. The Italians had significant concerns in regard to the potential cloud size of an accidental release. If I recall correctly the Germans have a nice example that they emptied. At one time it was kept as part of the historic collection collocated with the disassembly facility near Munster, but I believe that when there were management changes the collection was moved.
Near the same time the Italians recovered a significant number of these projectiles themselves, as a part of 36,000 pre-1946 chemical weapons buried at the Spilimbergo site - themselves part of an estimated 1 million illegally buried conventional items. The Italians had significant concerns in regard to the potential cloud size of an accidental release. If I recall correctly the Germans have a nice example that they emptied. At one time it was kept as part of the historic collection collocated with the disassembly facility near Munster, but I believe that when there were management changes the collection was moved.
I have the drawings, photographs and some information, but won’t be able to post until tomorrow.
The book is by Bruno Marcuzzo. Volume 2.
These projectiles are WWII
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The right side shows the “recipiente” version and the left shows the “diaframma” . Both 305mm, but filled in different ways.
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