Japanese Ammunition Documents from Kirkee – Index by Norman Bonney (March 2007)

1. Japanese Ammunition Chief Inspectorate Ammunition Technical Reports, Publication of the

Director of Armaments (India). Technical intelligence reports on ammunition subjects
for use at HQs and available to Inspecting Ordnance Officers (see leaflets below):
No 1 Magnetised Anti-Tank Mine Type 99, 1945
No 5 Grenade Hand or Discharger HE Type 91 & Grenade Hand HE Type 97, 1945
No 6 Ammunition for 50-mm Rifled (Grenade) Discharger Type 89, 1945
No 11 Fuze Percussion DA Type 93 (small) etc., 1945
No 22 Pistol and Machine Carbine Ammunition, 1945
No 24 Aircraft Cannon Cartridges 12.7-mm Rimless etc., 1945
No 25 Land Mine AT Type 93
No 27 Bomb HE 320-mm Spigot Mortar (335 Kg)
No 28 Ammunition for the Type 96 25-mm Naval AA/AT QF Gun, 1945
No 29 Cartridge QF 75-mm with HE AA Shell Type 90 etc., 1945
No 29 Supplement, 1945
No 29 Supplement B, 1945
No 30 Cartridge QF 75-mm with Hollow Charge AT/HE Shell (Type 2) etc.,1945
No 31 Typical Primers used in Gun Ammunition, 1945
No 32 HE AT (Hollow Charge) Grenade for 30-mm Rifled Grenade Discharger Cup and its
adaptation as 1/3 Kg HE A/C (Hollow Charge) Bomb, 1945
No 33 2 1/2 Kg Spigot Charge for Projection from 50-mm Grenade Discharger Type 98, 1945
No 34 Nose Percussion Fuzes Type 88 etc., 1945
No 35 Electric Primer fitted with Japanese Gaine used in Naval Shell etc.,1945
No 36 Bangalore Torpedo Type 99, 1945
No 37 Explosive Blocks and Prepared Charges etc., 1945
No 38 Typical Methods of Filling HE Nose Fuzed Shell, 1945
No 39 Typical Methods of Filling AP/HE Base Fuzed Shell, 1945
No 40 Ground Flares (Signal), 1945
No 41 B Cherry Tree Dynamite Mk 3, 1945
No 42 Base Fuzes for AP/HE Shell 37-mm, 47-mm and 75-mm Calibres, 1945
No 43 Igniter Cartridges for Type 93 Portable Flame Thrower, 1945
No 44 Grenade Hand or Rifle Type 99A, 1945
No 45 Grenade Hand HE Type 98 (Stick Type), 1945
No 46 Comparative Performance of Different Calibres and Natures of Small Arm
Ammunition against Portable Shields for Japanese Riflemen, 1945
No 47 Dutch Mushroom-Top Land Mine, 1945
No 48 Beach-Mine (Anti-Invasion Two Horns), 1945
No 49 Grenade Hand HE Pull Type, 1945
No 50 Ammunition for 88-mm Type 99 AA Gun, 1945
No 51 Ammunition for the 70-mm Barrage Mortar (Smooth Bore), 1945
No 52 Time and Percussion Fuzes use in Gun Ammunition, 1945
No 53 Mortar Bombs, 1946
2. Japanese Ammunition Leaflets 1944, Large (Foolscap) Series. Issued by the Director of
Ordnance Services 11 Army Group and compiled by the Director of Armaments (India) and
produced by the Chief Inspector Ammunition, Kirkee.
Section I Introduction and explanation of markings and characters used on ammunition and
packages
Leaflet I–1 Introduction and General Markings
Section II - Small Arms Ammunition
Leaflet II-1 6.5mm (0.256-inch) SAA
Leaflet II-2 Cartridge SA Ball 8mm
Leaflet II-3 Cartridge SA 7.7mm (0.303-inch) (Semi-rimless)
Leaflet II-4 Cartridge SA 7.7mm (0.303-inch) (Rimless)
Leaflet II-5 Cartridge SA 7.7mm (0.303-inch) (Rimmed)
Leaflet II-6 Cartridge SA 7.92mm Ammunition
Leaflet II-7 Aircraft Cannon Cartridges (Semi-rimless) 12.7mm (Browning Type)
Leaflet II-7A 12.7mm Aircraft Cannon Cartridges AP Tracer
Leaflet II-7B 12.7mm Aircraft Cannon Cartridges Explosive/incendiary
Leaflet II-7C 12.7mm Aircraft Cannon Cartridges With Type B Fuze
Leaflet II-7D Fuzes for 12.7mm Aircraft Cannon Cartridges
Leaflet II-8 Ammunition for Japanese 25mm Naval AA/AT QG Gun
Section III - Grenades Hand and Discharger Types
Leaflet III-1 Grenade Hand HE Type ‘97
Leaflet III-2 Grenade Hand or Discharger Type ‘91
Leaflet III-3 Grenade Hand HE Pull Type
Leaflet III-4 Grenade Hand HE “KISKA” Type
Leaflet III-5 Stick type Hand Grenades
Leaflet III-6 Grenade Rifle HE AT (Hollow Charge)
Leaflet III-7 1/3 Kg HE Aircraft Bomb
Leaflet III-8 Grenade Rifle Smoke
Leaflet III-9 Grenade Hand HE Type 99B
Leaflet III-10 Grenade Inc ½ Kg Hand or 50mm Grenade Discharger
Leaflet III-11 Japanese Hand Inc Grenade- Molotov Cocktail Type
Leaflet III-12 Tabulated Summary of Japanese Hand and Discharger Type Grenades
Leaflet III-13 Japanese Hand Flash Grenade
Section IV - Mortar Rocket and Discharger Ammunition
Leaflet IV-1 Japanese 50mm Dischargers
Leaflet IV-2 50mm HE Shell Nose Fuzed for Dischargers Type ‘89
Leaflet IV-3 Rocket Projectile
Leaflet IV-4 50mm Smoke Shell Nose Fuzed for Dischargers Type ‘89
Leaflet IV-5 Tabulated Summary of Japanese 50mm Discharger Shell
Leaflet IV-6 Japanese Mortar Ammunition
Leaflet IV-7 Ammunition for 90mm Mortar Type ‘94
Leaflet IV-8 Ammunition for 81mm (Infantry Trench) Mortar Type ‘99
Leaflet IV-9 Ammunition for 105mm Mortar (Believed Type ’95)
Leaflet IV-10 Ammunition for 70mm Discharger Type ‘TAISHO 11’
Leaflet IV-11 Grenade Smoke 50mm Discharger Type
Leaflet IV-12 2 ½ Kg Spigot Charge
Section V - Gun Ammunition
Leaflet V-1 Ammunition for the 75mm Guns
Section VI - Mines and Booby Traps
Leaflet VI-1 Japanese Land Mine AT Type ‘93
Leaflet VI-1A Japanese Mine AP Type ‘93
Leaflet VI-2 Japanese AT Magnetic Mine Type ‘99
Leaflet VI-3 Japanese Beach Mine (Type XIII)
Leaflet VI-4 Japanese Non-Metallic AT Mine
Leaflet VI-4A Japanese AT/AP Mine Type 3
Leaflet VI-5 Japanese Yardstick Mine
Leaflet VI-6 Land Mine Types 1 & 2 (Wooden construction)
Leaflet VI-7 Some Japanese Booby Traps Using Hand Grenades and Discharger
Shell
Leaflet VI-8 Miscellaneous Booby Traps
Leaflet VI-9 Some Methods of Improvising Booby Traps
Leaflet VI-10 AT Mines and Booby Traps Found in the Arakan and Manipur Area
Leaflet VI-11 Dutch “Mushroom Top” Mine (AT or Land Mine)
Leaflet VI-12 Naval Mine “ISHI” No 179
Leaflet VI-13 Japanese Land Mines – Booby Trap Firing Device
Leaflet VI-14 Experimental Hand Thrown Mine
Section VII – Pyrotechnics
Leaflet VII-1 50mm Signal Flares
Leaflet VII-2 Rocket Signal Modification I
Leaflet VII-3 Japanese 35mm Signal Cartridges
Leaflet VII-4 81mm Mortar Signal Flare & 26.5mm Signal Cartridge
Section VIII - Demolition Stores
Leaflet VIII-1 Japanese Demolition Clock
Leaflet VIII-2 Tabulated Summary of Japanese Detonators and Igniters
Leaflet VIII-3 Japanese Saboteur Stores (Secret)
Leaflet VIII-4 Tabulated Summary of Japanese Explosive Blocks used for HE Field
Fillings and Demolition Work
Leaflet VIII-5 Japanese Bangalore Torpedoes
Section IX - Smoke and Chemical Ammunition
Leaflet IX-1 Tabulated Summary of Japanese Chemical Grenades
3. Japanese Ammunition Leaflets 1945. Quarto Format. Publication of the Director of
Armaments (India) and produced by the Chief Inspector Ammunition, Kirkee. For
Inspecting Ordnance Officers in the identification and handling of enemy stores.
Summarised from Technical Reports (see above) where available. Manuscript
amendments (No 1) were issued in February 1946:
Section A Introduction and explanation of markings and characters used on ammunition and
packages
A1 Introduction, 1945
A2 Explanation of Stamping and Stencilling etc., 1st issue Feb1945
A2 Explanation of Stamping and Stencilling etc. with a Brief Ammunition Dictionary
of Japanese Characters, 2nd issue Sep1945
Section B Small arms ammunition and cannon shell
B1 Introduction, 1st issue May1945
B2 Cartridges SA 6.5-mm (0.256-in) Semi-rimless, 1945
B3 Cartridges SA 7.7-mm (0.303-in) Semi-rimless, 1945
B4 Cartridges SA 7.7-mm (0.303-in) Rimless, 1945
B5 Cartridges SA 7.7-mm (0.303-in) Rimmed, 1945
B6 Cartridges SA 7.92-mm (0.311-in) Rimless, 1945
B7 Reserved, (1945 Index)
B8 Reserved, (1945 Index)
B9 Japanese Pistol and Machine Carbine Ammunition, 1st issue Sept 1945
B10 Reserved, (1945 Index)
B11 Ammunition for 13-mm Type 2 and 13.2-mm Type 3 Machine Guns, 1st issue
June1945
B12 Aircraft Cannon Carts 12.7mm Semi Rimless for Aircraft Cannons Browning
Type, 1st issue Sept 1945
B13 AC Cannon Cartridges 12.7mm (0.5-in) – Detailed Description, 1945
B14 Reserved, (1945 Index)
B15 Cartridges SA 20-mm - general notes, 1st issue Dec 1945
B16 Cartridges SA 20-mm for Type 97 AT Machine Gun, 1st issue June1946
B17 Cartridges SA 20-mm for Type 98 AA/AT Gun, 1st issue Dec 1945
B18 Cartridges SA 20-mm for Type 99 Aircraft Cannon, 1st issue March 1946
B19 Cartridges SA 20-mm for Ho 5 A/C Cannon, 1st issue Jan1946
B20 Reserved, (1945 Index)
B21 Cartridges SA AA/AT 25-mm (.98-in), 1st issue June1945
B21(a) Cartridges SA 25-mm for Type 96 AA/AT Gun, 1st issue July1946
Section C Grenades hand and discharger types
C1 Introduction, 1st issue June1945
C1(a) Introduction, 1st issue Nov1945
C2 Grenade Hand or Discharger HE Type 91 & Grenade Hand HE Type 97, 1st issue
June1945
C3 Grenade Hand or Discharger Incendiary (WP) ½ Kg, 1st issue May 1946
C4 Grenade Hand or Rifle HE Type 99 A, 1st issue July1945
C5 Grenade Hand HE Type 99 B, 1st issue March 1946
C6 Grenade Hand HE Stick Type 98, Grenade Hand Incendiary Stick Type, 1st issue
August 1945
C7 Grenade Hand HE Pull Type (Believed to be Type 2-3), 1st issue Oct 1945
C8 Reserved, (1945 Index)
C9 Reserved, (1945 Index)
 C10 Reserved, (1945 Index)
C11 Grenade Hand HE Anti-Tank Hollow Charge (Type 3), 1945
C12 HE AT (Hollow Charge) Grenade for 30-mm Rifled Discharger etc., 1st issue
June1945
C12(a) Grenade HE AT Hollow Charge(Small Type) for 30-mm Rifled Discharger
Cup, 1st issue July1946
C13 Reserved, (1945 Index)
C14 Reserved, (1945 Index)
C15 Grenade Rifle HE Type 3 Modification 1, 1st issue April 1946
C16 Grenade Rifle Smoke, 1st issue May 1946
C17 Flare 50-mm Tenth Year Type (A), 1st issue Sept 1946
C18 Grenade Hand HE Ceramic and Grenade Hand Shrapnel Ceramic, Dec 1945
C19 Grenade Hand Flash, 1st issue August 1946
C20 Reserved, (1945 Index)
C21 Reserved, (1945 Index)
C22 Grenade Hand Incendiary (Molotov Cocktails), 1st issue Feb 1946
Section D Mortar rocket and discharger ammunition
D1 Introduction, 1st issue August 1945
D2 Reserved, (1945 Index)
D3 50-mm Dischargers - General Notes,1st issue Nov 1945
D4 Finned Bangalore Torpedo, 1st issue August 1945
D5 Reserved, (1945 Index)
D6 2 ½ Kg Spigot Charge, 1st issue May 1945
D7 Bomb HE 320-mm Spigot Mortar (335 Kg), 1st issue May 1945
D8 Ammunition for 50-mm (Grenade) Discharger Type 89, 1st issue Sept 1945
D9 Ammunition for 70-mm Type Taisho II Mortar (Rifled), 1st issue Feb 1946
D10 Ammunition for the 70-mm Barrage Mortar (Smooth Bore), 1st issue Nov 1945
D11 70-mm Mortar Spigot Bomb, 1st issue Jan1946
D12 Reserved, (1945 Index)
D13 ML Mortars – General Notes, 1st issue Nov 1945
D14 Fuzes for Japanese 81-mm 90-mm 120-mm and 150-mm Mortar Bombs and
Chinese 82-mm and 150-mm Mortar Bombs, 1st issue Oct 1945
D15 Ammunition for M.L. 81-mm Mortars, 1st issue Dec1945
D15 (a) Ammunition for M.L. 81-mm Mortars, 1st issue May 1946
D16 Ammunition for M.L. 82-mm Mortar (Chinese), 1st issue Jan 1946
D17 Ammunition for M.L. 90-mm Mortar, 1st issue Dec1945
D18 Ammunition for M.L. 120-mm Mortar, 1st issue Feb 1946
D19 Ammunition for M.L. 150-mm Mortar, 1st issue Jan 1946
D20 Ammunition for MK 6-inch Mortar Chinese, 1st issue April 1946
D21 Reserved, (1945 Index)
D22 Reserved, (1945 Index)
D23 Reserved, (1945 Index)
D24 Reserved, (1945 Index)
D25 Rocket Projectile 12-cm HE/Incendiary, 1945
D26 Reserved, (1945 Index)
D27 Rocket Projectile 60Kg HE, 1945
D28 Reserved, (1945 Index)
D29 Rocket Projectile 20-cm HE, 1945
D30 Reserved, (1945 Index)
D31 Rocket Projectile 250Kg HE, 1945
 D32 Reserved, (1945 Index)
D33 Rocket Projectile 45-cm HE, 1945
Section E Gun ammunition
E1 Introduction, 1945
E1(a) Introduction, 1st issue May1945
E1(b) Introduction, 1st issue Sept1945
E1(c) Comparative Chart for 75-mm Ammunition, 1st issue Nov 1945
E2 Primers used in Gun Ammunition, 1945
E2(a) Primers used in Gun Ammunition, 1st issue Oct 1945
E3 Type 88 HE Nose Percussion Fuzes for Gun Ammunition with 24-mm Fuze Hole,
1st issue April1945
E4 Fuze Percussion DA Type 93 (Small) for 37-mm Ammunition HE Nose Fuzed
with 16-mm Fuze Hole, 1st issue Aug 1945
E5 Base Fuzes for AP/HE Shell in 37-mm, 47-mm and 75-mm Calibres, 1st issue
July1945
E6 Time and Time & Percussion Fuzes used in Gun Ammunition, 1st issue Dec1945
E7 Typical Methods of Filling HE Nose Fuzed Shell, 1st issue June1945
E8 Typical Methods of Filling AP/HE Base Fuzed Shell, 1st issue June1945
E9 Typical Methods of Filling for Shrapnel Shell, 1st issue Feb 1946
E10 Typical Methods of Filling for Smoke Incendiary and Chemical Shells, 1st issue
April 1946
E11 Gun Ammunition in 37-mm Calibre, 1st issue Sep 1945
E11(a) Ammunition for Japanese 37-mm Ho 203 Aircraft Cannon, 1st issue Feb 1946
E12 Ammunition for German 30mm Aircraft Cannons, 1st issue Sep1946
E13 Ammunition for 40-mm AA/AT Gun, 1st issue May 1946
E14 Ammunition for the Japanese Army 40-mm Ho 301 Aircraft Gun, 1st issue
April1945
E15 Ammunition in 47-mm Calibre, 1st issue March 1946
E16 Reserved (1945 Index)
E17 Cartridges QF (Fixed) for 57-mm Tank Guns, 1st issue Aug 1946
E18 Reserved (1945 Index)
E19 Ammunition for 70-mm Type 92 Battalion Gun, 1st issue Dec 1945
E20 Ammunition for the 75-mm Type Meiji 41 Regimental Gun, 1st issue Oct 1945
E21 Ammunition for the 75-mm Type Meiji 38 Series of Field Guns and Type 94
Mountain Gun, 1st issue Oct 1945
E22 Ammunition for the 75-mm Type 90 Field Gun, 1st issue Jan 1946
E23 Gun Ammunition for Type 88 AA/Field Gun, 1st issue May 1945
E23(a) Gun Ammunition for 75-mm Type 88 AA/Field Gun,1st issue Sep 1945
E24 Ammunition for 88-mm Type 99 AA Gun, 1st issue Dec 1945
E25 105-mm Artillery Ammunition, 1st issue July 1946
E26 Ammunition for 8-cm (3-in) 10th Year Type Dual Purpose Naval Gun, 1st issue
March 1946
E27 120-mm Artillery Ammunition, 1st issue July 1946
E28 150-mm Artillery Ammunition, 1st issue July 1946
E29 Ammunition for BL Type Taisho 3 (1914) 140-mm CA (Naval) Gun, 1st issue
Aug 1946
Section F Mines and Booby Traps
F1 Introduction, 1st issue April1945
F2 Japanese Land Mine AT Type 93, 1st issue Nov1944
F2(a) Anti-Personnel Fuze for the Land Mine Anti-Tank Type 93, 1st issue Aug 1945
 F3 Lunge Mine, 1st issue July 1945
F3 Lunge Mine, 2nd issue March 1946
F4 Magnetised Anti-Tank Mine Type 99, June 1945
F5 Reserved (1945 Index)
F6 Anti-Tank/Anti-Personnel Mine Type 3, 1st issue Dec1945
F7 Reserved (1945 Index)
F8 Dutch Mushroom-Top Mine, 1st issue Sep 1945
F9 Anti-Vehicular Yardstick Mine, 1st issue Nov 1945
F10 Experimental Hand-Thrown Anti-Tank Mine, 1st issue Jan1946
F11 Improvised Mines, 1st issue Sep1946
F12 Reserved (1945 Index)
F13 Reserved (1945 Index)
F14 Beach Mine (Anti-Invasion, Two Horns), 1st issue Nov1945
F15 Anti-Boat Mine (One Horn, Small Type Mine, Type 2), 1st issue Feb 1946
F16 Naval ‘ISHI’ Mine, 1st issue April1946
F17 Reserved (1945 Index)
F18 Reserved (1945 Index)
F19 Reserved (1945 Index)
F20 Japanese booby traps, 1st issue Nov 1945
F21 Reserved (1945 Index)
F22 Reserved (1945 Index)
F23 Special Booby Trap Mechanisms, 1945
F24 Explosives and Devices for Saboteur Use (Secret Supplementary Leaflet, 1945)
Section G Pyrotechnics
G1 Introduction, 1st issue Feb 1946
G2 Rocket, Signal, Modification I, 1st issue April1946
G3 Cartridges Signal 35mm, 1st issue March1946
G4 Ground Flares (Signal) with Pull Type Friction Ignition, 1st issue June 1945
G5 Flare Signal 4cm Type ’93 Self Propelling, 1st issue June1946
G6 Japanese, Type 100 Self Propelling Illuminating Flare with Parachute, 1st issue
May 1946
G7 Reserved (1945 Index)
Section H Demolition Stores
H1 Introduction, 1st issue Jan 1946
H2 Japanese Electric Primer etc Adapted to fit 1.375-inch (British) Standard Fuze
Hole, 1st issue May1945
H3 Japanese Bangalore Torpedoes, 1st issue June 1945
H4 Japanese Saboteur Stores, 1st issue Sep 1945
H5 Charge Demolition 2Kg Beehive, 1st issue May1946
H6 Reserved (1945 Index)
H7 Reserved (1945 Index)
H8 Demolition Clocks, 1st issue June 1946
Section J Smoke and chemical ammunition
J1 Introduction, 1st issue Feb 1946
J2 Smoke Generators, 1st issue March 1946
J3 Japanese Type ‘94B Floating Smoke Candle, 1st issue April 1946
J4 Type ’99-A Self Propelling Screening Smoke Candle, 1st issue May 1946
J5 Japanese Type ’94-A Screening Smoke Candles Large and Small, May 1946
J6 Type ’89-A Lachrymatory Candle, 1st issue June 1946
J7 Japanese Type I Model I Smoke Generator (White), 1946