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Old 28-03-2008, 03:22 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Supposedly these were chemical ordnance at Barra!

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Old 28-03-2008, 04:32 PM   #22 (permalink)
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Thanks Spidge, Interesting pic. If you squint hard enough you just make out what looks like bungs on the top of the drums. I might be barking up the wrong tree with Iron Range as the mystery drums all had a bung in the side rather than the top.

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Old 02-04-2008, 01:53 AM   #23 (permalink)
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Levinstein mustard

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Assuming they are mustard gas containers they would be 1 ton bulk cylinders filled American manufactured mustard - referred to as Levinstein mustard. I've made the assumption they are. The americans used little or no protection for their chemical weapons. They left them out in the fashion shown. This was noted by a delegation from the RAAF chemical warfare headquarters in Melbourne (Arm 6) in mid 1943.
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