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RE: Kali-Patronen (~potassium canisters/bottles)
Posted by:
joe brandt
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Date: August 21, 2000 12:44AM
Some very good pictures of the KALIPATRONEN can be found in U-BOAT COMMANDERS AND CREWS 1935-45 by JAK P. MALLMANN SHOWELL ,pages 53 and 89. Taste ? I would think the only taste you would get is from that big rubber mask around your face. Storeage was at first done by supplying each crewman with one of these air purifiers to wear ,but sometime around 1943 these were discontinued and the KALIPATRONEN canisters were installed in units on the invidual bulkheads of the u--boat as an air purifying system. The personal KALIPATRONEN were stored in canvas bags like the escape gear and stowed in any place that they would be out of the way of the daily routine but able to be reached quickly enough in an emergency
Subject | Written By | Posted |
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Kali-Patronen (~potassium canisters/bottles) | Michi | 08/20/2000 07:18AM |
RE: Kali-Patronen (~potassium canisters/bottles) | joe brandt | 08/21/2000 12:44AM |
Thanks!!__DYK, if... | Michi | 08/22/2000 12:06AM |