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to lay smoke screens or dispense chemical weapons such as tear gas. The tanks held a maximum of , and weighed, when full and could lay a smoke screen about {{convert, 2,000, ft, m long. The tanks were used to lay aerial smoke screens in combat during the

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of the

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's 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment paratroopers at

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in 1943.

References

* https://web.archive.org/web/20100802224218/http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=1028

External links

Imperial War Museum website
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