FM 3-5: Chemical Warfare Service Field Manual. Tactics of Chemical Warfare

FM 3-5 Chemical Warfare Service Field Manual. Tactics of Chemical Warfare

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FM 3-5

Chemical Warfare Service Field Manual. Tactics of Chemical Warfare

Army · FM · Jan 1942 · 158 pages

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Introduction.—a. Munitions other than chemical, such as high explosives and bullets, are effective solely because of their ability to destroy materiel and personnel. Chemical agents perform their missions by direct chemical action. b. Chemical agents differ from other types of munitions in the varying lengths of time during which they are effective. The effective period of high explosives and bullets ends when the fragments come to rest, but the effective period of chemicals may continue for hours or days. c. The cover sought for protection against the fire of bullets and high explosives, such as defilade and trenches, affords only very limited protection against chemical attack. The chemical agent permeates the atmosphere and reaches men behind concrete parapets and buildings, in trenches, or wherever else they may be. d.

DesignationFM 3-5

EditionJan 1942

StatusSuperseded

Pages158

FunctionCBRN

CollectionHistoric

Public domain (U.S. Government work)

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