T™ _9-1901 387-388 ARTILLERY AMMUNITION CHAPTER 4 DESTRUCTION OF AMMUNITION UPON IMMINENCE OF CAPTURE IN COMBAT ZONE 387. GENERAL. a. When immediate capture of ammunition is threatened by a turn of events in the combat zone and when the ammunition cannot be evacuated, it will be as completely destroyed or damaged as avail- able time, equipment, materials, and personnel will permit. b. The destruction of ammunition will be accomplished only on authority delegated by the division or higher commander. e. The methods used will require imagination, initiative, and ingenuity, and should be the simplest which will accomplish the desired purpose. 388. METHODS. a. Ammunition can be destroyed most quickly by detonation or burning. (1) Detonation. Unpacked high-explosive rounds, separate- loading high-explosive shell, and high capacity items such as antitank mines, bangalore torpedoes, bursters or caps, packed or unpacked, may be destroyed by placing them in contact in piles and detonating them with a charge of TNT, using with blasting cap and sufficient safety fuse to permit reaching cover at 200 yards. About 1 pound of TNT per 100 pounds of ammunition as packed, should be sufficient. (2) Burninc. All other types of ammunition such as packed high-explosive rounds and propelling charges, small-arms ammunition, grenades, pyrotechnics, etc., packed or unpacked, can most rapidly be destroyed by burning. The ammunition may be piled in the con- tainers (except small-arms cartridges which should be broken out) with all available inflammable material as wood, rags, brush, and cans or drums of gasoline. The gasoline should be poured over the pile and ignited from cover. Rounds that come through the fire un- exploded will be in the nature of duds, that is, in a condition danger- ous to handle. 346™ 9-1901 CHAPTER 5 COMPLETE ROUND TABLES 347T 9-1901 TABLE 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. ARTILLERY AMMUNITION INDEX TO COMPLETE ROUND TABLES* 20-mm Gun Ammunition 37-mm Gun Ammunition 40-mm Gun Ammunition 57-mm Gun Ammunition 60-mm Mortar Ammunition . 75-mm Gun Ammunition 75-mm Howitzer Ammunition 76-mm Gun Ammunition 3-inch Gun Ammunition 81-mm Mortar Ammunition 90-mm Gun Ammunition . 105-mm Howitzer Ammunition 105-mm Gun Ammunition 45-inch Gun Ammunition 120-mm (4.7-inch) Gun Ammunition 155-mm Howitzer Ammunition 155-mm Gun Ammunition 8-inch Howitzer Ammunition 8-inch Gun Ammunition 240-mm Howitzer Ammunition 37-mm Subcaliber Ammunition . 349 350 352 . 354 355 356 358 359 360 . 363 364 . 365 367 368 369 . 370 373 375 376 377 378 ‘These tables are to be used in conjunction with the ammunition sections in Chapter 2 and are not to be confused with official Complete Round Charts, Form No. 5981. 348