In order to tighten the fuzes to the projectiles, and set times on the various time fuzes, a number of wrenches, and setters were used. The simplest device was the M16 J wrench. It could be used to tighten rounds to projectiles, and even used to set times on the fuzes, although this practice was frowned upon by command. A fact known all too well by this webmaster. The M18 fuze wrench was the workhorse. Used to tighten fuzes to the rounds, the handle also had a straight slot screw driver that was used to set the PDSQ fuze to delay.
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Einsatzgruppen (German for task forces, deployment groups ; singular Einsatzgruppe; official full name Einsatzgruppen der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD) were Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass killings, primarily by shooting, during World War II.he largest mass shooting perpetrated by the Einsatzgruppen took place on 29 and 30 September 1941 at Babi Yar, a ravine northwest of Kiev, a city in Ukraine that had fallen to the Germans on 19 September.