I've spotted a box with this label and wondering what it might be for. I imagine has to do with 10cm Nebelwerfer35 grenades but what exactly? thanks in advance.
Carles
Carles
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Well, I have just discovered those initials might mean Kammerhülsenladungen...but I don't know what that is...
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Kammerhülsenladung 2 der 10 cm Wurfgranate 35 Nebel.
A Kammerhülse is a central tube running from the fuze into the smoke charge (10 cm Wgr. 35 Nb is a smoke round), inside this tube you will find a HE charge designed to break open the shell which causes the exposed smome charge to react with the surrounding air.
The HE charge is called the Kammerülsenladung.
As you can see on the label, the explosive used for this charge was Grf. 88, Granatfüllung 88 (if i remember correctly, that's picric acid, which is nasty stuff).
Zünder,
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Thanks M.,
So the box would contain 900 of such starter tubes then. Is the grenade in the pic the correct one we are talking about?
If the price is good I might buy the box to store some items in my collection. If I get it I will post some pics.
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No, not the tube, the tube itself is part of the shells construction.Originally posted by me6_130 View Post
This box contained 900 of the HE charges that went inside of these tubes.
Yes, that's the shell.
The label tells us that the charges were made and packed at a company with code "cwg" in 1942, and it was batch nr. 12.
The Grf. 88 was made by "sem" and made in 1939.
Zünder,
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The code "cwg" is for the maker Westfalisch Anhaltische Sprengstoff A,-G., Werk Coswig.
My book does not have the maker "sem" in it.
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