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Different amounts of ammunition - n.d.

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Small Arms Amunition Ga.. 30 How carried Person Combat train Am. train [How carried] No. Rounds [Person] 100 (a) [Combat Train] 120 [Am. train] 120 [How carried] 1 rifle Co. [Person] 22,260 [Combat train] 17,640 (b) [Am. train] 28,200 (a) 100 rounds is the mobile allowance of the normal infantry rifleman (b) Reserve amunition is not provided in the combat train for rifles of the 32 automatic rifle amunition-carriers, nor for the 8 rifles of the automatic gunners not acting as such, nor the 48 men of the hand bombers section Small Arms Amunition pistol Cal..45 How carried Person Combat train Am. train [How carries] No. rounds [Person] 35 [Combat Train] 21 [Am. train] 21 [How carried] 1 rifle company [Person] 1,715 [Combat train] 1,533 [Am. train] 1,533 Automatic Rifle Amunition (Chauchat) How carried [Person] With Guns Combat train Am. train [How carried] Rounds per gun [Person] 648 [Combat train] 648 [Am. train] 648 [How carried] 1 Co. 16 guns [Person] 10,368 [Combat train] 10,368 [Am. train] 10,368 Hand Grenades (Trench stores to be kept on hand at all times) Co. dumps [in each co. sector] 500 Co. dumps [in each bn. sector] 2,000 Co. dumps [in each reg. sector] 4,000 Bn. Dumps [in each co. sector] Bn. Dumps [in each bn. sector] 2,000 Bn. Dumps [in each reg. sector] 2,000 Reg dumps [in each co. sector] Reg. dumps [in each bn. sector] 2000 Reg. dumps [in each reg. sector] 2,000 Notes: The kinds of grenades in each dump should be of the following proportions: Defensive 70% Offensive 20%, Asphyxiating or suffocating 20% The above figures represent the minimum that should be kept on hand. Rifle grenades C. dumps [in each co. sector] 250 Co. dumps [in each bn. sector] 1,000 Co. dumps [in each reg. sector 2,000 Bn. dumps [in each co. sector] Bn. dumps [in each bn. sector] 500 Bn. dumps [in each reg. sector] 1,000 Reg. dumps [in each co. sector] Reg. dumps [in each bn. sector] Reg. dumps [in each reg. sector] 500

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Title Different amounts of ammunition - n.d.
Creator Unknown
Source Unknown. Different amounts of ammunition. n.d. Koch, Joseph Collection. MO00.001.0001-1072. Museum of Missouri Military History, Jefferson City, Missouri.
Description Information concerning different amounts of ammunition for different uses. This collection was compiled by Major Joseph Koch, a St. Louis, Missouri resident who served during the Punitive Expedition into Mexico with the First Missouri Infantry. During World War I, Major Koch was severely wounded in his left leg during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive while serving with the 35th Division, 137th Infantry.
Subject LCSH Ammunition
Subject Local World War One; WWI
Site Accession Number MO00.001.0001-1072
Contributing Institution Museum of Missouri Military History
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Date Original n.d.
Language English