War Department production plans called for 30,000 M311 75mm Smoke Shells to be produced by August 1945. All these shells were capable of being filled with lethal gas and were light enough to be shipped by air in the tens of thousands per month.
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War Department production plans called for 30,000 M311 75mm Smoke Shells to be produced by August 1945. All these shells were capable of being filled with lethal gas and were light enough to be shipped by air in the tens of thousands per month.