Description
This is the standard all purpose sea marker for daylight use: to provide reference points; to aid in determining drift: and to provide practice bombing targets on water.
This marker consists of a paper composition case filled with a fluorescein dye. It is protected by a cylinder of paper mache, which does not interfere with its function.
The marker is dropped by hand from a plane.
Functioning
Upon impact with water, the case shatters and the dye spreads upon the surface.
See Also
Nothing else to see.
Source(s)
OP 1664, Volume 1 - US Explosive Ordnance (1947)
USNBD - Bombs and Fuzes, Pyrotechnics (1945)
