Lone Sentry: TM-E 30-451 Handbook on German Military Forces: Aerial Weapons: Chemical Warfare Equipment: Equipment

CHAPTER VIII. EQUIPMENT

Section VI. CHEMICAL WARFARE EQUIPMENT

5. Aerial Weapons

a. CHEMICAL BOMBS. (1) 10-Kilogram (22 pounds) Fragmentation Bomb (GC 10). This is a toxic smoke and high explosive bomb. It contains an arsenic filling, identified by the Germans with a blue cross.

(2) 50-Kilogram (110 pounds) Mustard Gas Bomb (GC 50). This bomb has a highly sensitive impact fuze, with either a small bursting charge for ground contamination or a large bursting charge for antipersonnel effect.

(3) 250-Kilogram (550 pounds) Mustard Gas Bomb (KC 250 GB). This bomb has a time fuze which is set to function about 330 feet above the ground. The bomb will contaminate an area of about 6,000 square yards. It is possible that the Germans have gas bombs of larger caliber. A "green cross" (KC 500) bomb has been reported with a choking-gas filling.

b. SMOKE BOMBS. (1) NG 50 Smoke Bomb. This bomb has a field grey body with white nose. It may have four white vertical stripes or two white bands painted on the body. Its over-all length is 2 feet 7 inches.

(2) NC 50 WC. This bomb is for use on water. It has a field gray or silver body with yellow nose. Four yellow vertical stripes may appear on the body. It is 3 feet 7 inches long and 7 3/4 inches in diameter. The filling is a Berger Mixture or hexachlorethane.

(3) NC 250 S. This bomb is similar to the Flam. C 250. It is painted silver with a white band and NC 250 painted between the filling plug and suspension socket. The nose is white, and the tail is olive drab. There are two sizes of this bomb, one weighing 242 pounds and the other 418 pounds. The filling is chlorsulfonic acid and sulphurtrioxide.

c. INCENDIARY BOMBS. (1) 1-Kilogram Bomb. Specimens of this bomb may bear designations B1 E1, B1 E1 Z, and B1 E1 ZB. All types weigh about 2.75 pounds each. The body is painted aluminum or green. The diameter is 2 inches, and over-all length 13 1/2 inches. The filling is 0.44 pounds of thermite.

(2) 2-Kilogram Bomb. This bomb has the designation B2 E1 Z and weighs about 4 1/2 pounds. The body color is aluminum or light green. The filling includes TNT or amatol in addition to thermite. The diameter is 2 inches, and the over-all length is 20.7 inches.

(3) Oil Incendiary Bomb (Brand C 50 A). This bomb weighs 99 pounds. It is painted field gray, with red under the tail, a red band encircling the body, and a yellow stripe on the tail cone. The body diameter is 8 inches, and the over-all length 43.2 inches. The filling is 15 liters (3.3 gallons) of a mixture of 86 per cent benzene, 10 per cent rubber, and 4 per cent phosphorus. It has a bursting charge of picric acid.

(4) Incendiary Bomb C 50 B. This is identical in marking, dimensions, and body color with the C 50 A. However, it is filled with white phosphorus, and this is indicated by a small red bottle painted on the bomb.

(5) Flam. C 250. This bomb weighs 240 pounds. It is painted green with a red nose, two blue tail rings, and two red bands. The diameter of the body is 2 inches, and over-all length is 64 1/2 inches. It contains 16 gallons of oil, weighing 110 pounds, composed of crude oil, aluminum, magnesium powder, and woodmeal-petroleum igniting mixture. The bursting charge is 2.65 pounds of picric acid and TNT.

(6) Flam. C 250 B and Flam. C 250 C. These bombs are identical with the Flam. C 250 except markings. The type B and C bombs are painted dark blue or gray and have two red bands encircling the body.

(7) Brand C 250 A. This bomb is painted field gray with a red undertail. It measures 14 1/2 inches in diameter and 64 1/2 inches in length. The filling, 15.8 gallons, is a mixture of 87.7 per cent petroleum solvent, 11.7 per cent polystyrene, and 0.5 per cent phosphorus. The bursting charge is picric acid.

(8) Flam. C. 500 C. This bomb is painted blue or gray and weighs 440 to 460 pounds.

d. SPRAY TANKS. All German aircraft smoke sprayers, S 100, S 125, S 200, and S 300, are similar in construction. They make use of a smoke acid mixture and are operated by gas pressure. The sprayer is a cylindrical apparatus housing an acid container, a small cylinder or bottle of compressed air, air lines with valve, and emission pipe, and nozzle. It is carried externally on the aircraft and can be jettisoned at will. The smoke acid is ejected by compressed air at 45 pounds per square inch. It may be filled to two levels. When charged at low level, it has a weight of 551 pounds; charged at high level it weighs 827 pounds, holding 482 and 758 pounds respectively. The firing is done electrically by operating a magnetic valve. Emission may be interrupted and re-started at will.

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