155-MM Shell MK II (HOW), HS-FILLED: Serviceability of War Reserve Shell and Quantities of Ammunition Required to Produce 50% Casualties on Personnel

Macintire, B. G.

155-MM Shell MK II (HOW), HS-FILLED: Serviceability of War Reserve Shell and Quantities of Ammunition Required to Produce 50% Casualties on Personnel

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Abstract:

The object of the work described in this report was to determine if the HS-filled 155-mm. howitzer shell in War Reserve are serviceable and, if so, the number required to produce 50 casualties among personnel exposed on the target on which they burst.

Author(s):

Macintire, B. G.

Author Organization(s):

ARMY CHEMICAL WARFARE SERVICE EDGEWOOD ARSENAL MD

Supplementary Note:

DOI: 10.21236/ADA613930

Pagination:

0384

Security Markings

DOCUMENT & CONTEXTUAL SUMMARY

Distribution:

Approved For Public Release

Distribution Statement:

Approved For Public Release; Distribution Is Unlimited.

RECORD

Collection: TR

Identifying Numbers

Monitor Series:

ECBC

Subject Terms

Joint Capability Areas:

JCA_6.4.1_Secure Information Exchange; JCA_5_Command and Control; JCA_6.4_Information Assurance; JCA_6_Net Centric; JCA_1.2.5_Lessons Learned; JCA_1_Force Support; JCA_1.3_Human Capital Management; JCA_1.3.2_Personnel Management; JCA_4.6_Engineering; JCA_5.2_Understand

Modernization Areas:

Fully Networked C3

Communities of Interest:

Biomedical

Descriptor(s):

*CASUALTIES, *CHEMICAL ORDNANCE, ANIMALS, ARTILLERY AMMUNITION, CHEMICAL PROJECTILES, CHEMICAL WARFARE CASUALTIES, EXPOSURE(PHYSIOLOGY), FIRING TESTS(ORDNANCE), HOWITZERS, LIQUID PHASES, MUSTARD AGENTS, PERSONNEL, VAPORS

Field(s)/Group(s):

Chemical, Biological and Radiological Warfare, Ammunition and Explosives

Keyword(s):

MUSTARD GAS, HS AGENT

Report Date:

1935 Jul 19

Creation Date:

2015 Apr 01