Foreign artillery fuzes of WWII

1) British. No information is available on fuzes for projectiles used in cannons, howitzers, mortars and recoilless rifle. Fuzes used in rockets are described in confidential TM 9-1985-1(1953) (Ref 26, pp 351 to 372) 

3) German. A detailed description of artillery fuzes (Gessosszunder) is given in TM 9-1985-3 (1953), pp 547-608 (listed here as Ref 27b) and this report and some other sources were used in compiling PATR 2510 (1958) (listed here as Ref 35), where 

Point Detonating (AZ), pp Ger 56 to 62, with 35 figs Base Detonating (BdZ), pp Ger 62 to 64, with 13 figs 

Nose Percussion Fuze ( spoletta per-cussione ), of which M10 and M17 were used in most HE projectiles (pp 133-34) 

Percussion Nose Fuze M40 with Detonator M40-Ordinary and Instantaneous for 75 to 100-mm projs (p 138) 

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TM 9-1985-3(1953), p 545-623 (Fuzes are listed in Section 5, Part C, under "Foreign Artillery Fuzes of WWII )... 

Part C, under "Foreign Artillery Fuzes of WWII"... 

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