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US Tracer, Mk 8 Mod 0

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Description

No description available.

Functioning

The cap holder, when the shell is fired, sets back, thus overcoming the stirrup spring, and forces itself against the anvil, igniting the tracer and initiating its action, and blowing out the sealing disc abaft the anvil.

Hazardous Components

No information about hazardous components.

See Also

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Source(s)

OP 1664, Volume 1 - US Explosive Ordnance (1947)