HANDBOOK OF ENEMY AMMUNITION |
PAMPHLET No. 10 |
GERMAN, ITALIAN AND JAPANESE AMMUNITION |
ITALIAN 75 MM AMMUNITION TABULATION |
Nature of Gun |
Type of Round |
Colour Markings of Shell |
Stencil Markings of Shell |
Method of Manufacture of Shell |
Nature of Filling |
Exploder System |
Fuze and Gaine |
Remarks |
(A) 27 Cal. Gun, How. |
Q.F. Separate H.E. |
Head
- Red Body - Light Blue Band above dvg. band - Green |
TRITOLO 75/27 |
Forged steel body, |
Cast T.N.T. |
Pressed T.N.T Pellets in exploder container |
Inneschi graze fuze, cyclonite gaine. |
Fully described in Pamphlet No. 7. |
(B) 27 Cal. Gun, How, 13 Cal. How. |
Q.F. Separate H.E. |
Head
- Red Body - Light Blue Band above dvg. band - Green |
TRITOLO 75/27/13 |
Machined from bar |
Cast T.N.T. |
Ballistite flake in metal tube |
Inneschi graze fuze, Ballistite gaine |
Fully described in
Pamphlet No. 7. |
(C) 27 Cal. Gun, How. |
Q.F. Separate Hollow Charge |
Cap -
Red Body - Light Blue Band above dvg. band - White |
75/27 TRITOLITE |
Forged Steel. |
Cast T.N.T./ Wax Hollow Charge |
Cyclonite/wax in Aluminium sheath |
Base
fuze and gaine |
Described in Pamphlet No. 8, details of fuze not yet available. |
(D) 27 Cal. Gun, How. 13 Cal. How. |
Q.F. Separate H.E. |
Nose
- Orange Body - Light Blue "Sherardized" metal coating. Band above dvg. band - Green over Yellow. |
Kg.
6.2 TRITOLO A.P., F.M. D.A.Vr.XII/ 933 75/13/27 3 |
Machined from bar |
Cast T.N.T. |
Ballistite flake in metal capped card- board tube, in Aluminium sheath |
Inneschi graze fuze. Ballistite gaine |
Indentical in
contour to |
(E) 27 Cal. Gun, How. |
Q.F. Separate H.E. |
Nose
- Orange Body - Light Blue "Sherardized" metal coating. Band above dvg. band - Green Rear of dvg. band - White. |
Kg.
6.100 TRITOLO D.A.Vr.935 75/27 |
Machined as for (B) |
Detail not available |
Detail not available |
Detail not available |
Identical in
contours to |
(F) 27 Cal. A.A. |
Q.F. Separate H.E. |
Body - Blue | Kg. 6.18 TRITOLO |
Forged
steel bodies. |
T.N.T. cast in card- board cylinder |
Ballistite flake in brass type |
Time fuze combustion type |
One model fully described in Pamphlet No. 9. |
Body
- Blue Band - Dark Blue |
Kg. 6.33 TRITOLO A.P. |
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Body
- Blue Band - Dark Blue |
Kg. 8.1 or 8.2 TRITOLO A.P. |
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Body
- Light Blue Band - Dark Blue All types - Head Orange |
Kg. 8.2 or 6.2 or 6.3 or A.P. 1928 TRITOLO A.P. |
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(G) 27 Cal. Gun, How. |
Q.F. Separate Shrapnel |
Nose
- Orange Body - Red |
Kg. 6.6 75/27 |
Forged steel body. |
Shrapnel similar in all respects to 77/28 Shell described in this Pamphelt |
As
for 77/28 Shrapnel |
Time
fuze graduated to 59 (Pamphlet No. 9) |
Comparable in all
respects with 77/28 |
(H) |
Q.F. Fixed H.E. |
Head
- Red Body - Light Blue "Sherardized" metal finish. Bands - Blue. Green above dvg. band |
Kg. 6.550 TRITOLO COMPRESSO 75/46 |
Forged steel body. |
Not |
Exploder container. Other details not yet available. |
No
details available. |
Further details awaited. |
Note:– Where the Color of the head of the shell is described in the third column as oran-ge, this is due to a variation in the normal shade of the red used. The variation has no signifiance. |