AMMUNITION AND SHELL LOADING.
When we entered the war the quantity of field artillery ammunition on hand was considerably less than a single month's supply, basing our rate of expenditure on the estimated rate for November, 1918. There were no facilities of any degree of magnitude available to take care of our projected program for filling the high-explosive shell necessary for use by our overseas forces.
Consequently it became necessary at once to plan and to develop the resources of the country for the production of metallic parts, such as the shell proper, the fuse, boosters and adapters, as well as to design and build entirely new plants and to train completely new forces for the loading of the shell with the high explosives.
HIGH EXPLOSIVE NOSE FUSE SHELL
75M/M TYPE
Detonator (explosive)
Bourrelet
Explosive charge (T. N. T.) or (Amatol)
Smokeless powder