Notes on North American Equipment & Stores, section 9 Ammunition 1942

[Rrickoshae]

Just been looking through this manual issued in 1942 by the British Army Staff, Washington D.C for the guidance of RAOC handling American ammunition. I thought some of you would appreciate the colour plates.

Dave

 

[Rrickoshae]

More plates

 

[flak18]

VERY interesting. I notice with interest the 105mm How HEAT.... FIXED round !!!!! What I would give for one of those cases with the crimp.

 

[sgdbdr]

Would you consider scannig the whole book ?

 

[ron3350]

This is an experimental fixed 105mm How round T33 case. Hard to read but looks like XM 461?
Brass case with a screw-off base and mouth crimps so was a fixed round. I have no info on this case. May be a HEAT? or a way to change charges from the base ??

 

[2pounder]

yes very useful book, I've a black and white reprint someone was doing many years ago when I got it.

 

[jeff w]

Fantastic! First time I have ever seen an image of an American HEAT round in Yellow.
Also interesting is the apparent lack of information on the M72 75mm AP (unless you just skipped it).
If the book was from after March 1942 that might explain it though, as they had given up on it quite early.

 

[flak18]

Fascinating case, the experimental 105 How. I have seen nothing on that one at all. Can't begin to imagine what it was for. The HEAT fixed rounds bore the headstamp TYPE II rather than the normal TYPE I. Thank you for showing that case. Amazing.

 

[Rrickoshae]

No, sorry sgdbdr, there are hundreds of pages covering small arms, mortars, fuzes, grenades, packaging, igniters etc etc!

 

[Rrickoshae]

Hi, Jeff, some pages are dated 1943 and the M72 is only briefly mentioned in the narrative, see attached

 

[Rrickoshae]

These filling station codes might be of interest

 

[Eggburt1969]

No, sorry sgdbdr, there are hundreds of pages covering small arms, mortars, fuzes, grenades, packaging, igniters etc etc!

That's a shame as the binder format would make it pretty easy to scan.

I have software I use quite often to clean-up and then OCR scans to create a PDF (or other) versions of the document should you decide to ever scan it.

It would seem to be very similar to the 1944 publication 'TM 9-1904 - Ammunition Inspection Guide'

 

[sgdbdr]

No, sorry sgdbdr, there are hundreds of pages covering small arms, mortars, fuzes, grenades, packaging, igniters etc etc!

You don't have do do it in one day ! Even it it take a year, it will still be interesting. I'm doing a lot a scanning work and I know how boring it is, but I do it a small amount at a time.

Cheers,

S.