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bdgreen

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WW2 era manual on Russian artillery ammunition (found on SCRIBD) in Russian with very good drawings and diagrams, most are in color. Covers artillery projectiles, cases, cartridges, fuzes, fuze tools and ammunition boxes/crates. Note the pages of the manual are out of order.

http://www.bocn.co.uk/vbforum/downloads.php?do=file&id=534

Hand Grenades, A Handbook on Rifle and Hand Grenades, 1917. Emphasis is on British grenade types, how to use and how to employee them in combat. Briefly covers some foreign grenades. A high quality scan (found on Internet Archive) with very good diagrams of different types of WW1 grenades.

http://www.bocn.co.uk/vbforum/downloads.php?do=file&id=533

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