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Ammunition

Ammunition is any material that can be shot from firearms or from any weapon that can throw projectiles. For example, powder, shot, shrapnel, bullets, grenades, bombs, shells and chemicals, and the means of igniting them. 

Additional Information

Search the Memorial's Collections Database at http://awm-public/database/index.asp to see images of different types of ammunition, and the people who manufactured and used it.