German Air Force

Air Ministry, The Rise and Fall of the German Air Force (London Public Record Office, 2001), pp. 79-95 T. C.G. James, The Battle of Britain, ed. Sebastian Cox (London Frank Cass, 2000) Murray, Lujtwajfe pp. 43-59. 

The 33d Chemical Decontamination Company landed on Utah Beach on D-day with the multiple mission of decontamination reconnaissance, smoke, and CWS supply. Although by that afternoon the unit was prepared to provide smoke on call from VII Corps, the German Air Force failed to appear in strength and the need for smoke never materialized. As a consequence, the 33d s main mission became that of supply the CWS dump maintained by the unit handled over... 

Theses polymers are made from acrylic acid, its homologues and their derivatives. Glass like resins were made from esters of aerylic acid in 1877 by Fitting and Peter by Kahlbaum. In 1928, Rohm and Hass, a German Company started commercial development of methacrylic esters. Limited production started in 1933. The rapidly expanding air-force used this plastic in place of glass in the aeroplanes. Most of the early production of "Plexiglass was used up by air-force planes. In 1936, ICI marketed methyl methacrylate sheets as "Perspex". 

ZEMAN, A., and KOCH, K., (1981) Determination of Odorous Volatiles in Air using Chromatographic Profiles, German Armed Forces University, Munich, D-8014 Neubiberg (G.F.R.)... 

The Allies soon followed their example. During WWI I, the US Air Force used such bombs very effectively, more so than the Germans, to burn out most of the large German and Japanese cities... 

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