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The M10 smoke tank, also known as Smoke Curtain Installation, was an aircraft under wing tank used by, the——United States Army Air Forces——to lay smoke screens. Or dispense chemical weapons such as tear gas. The tanks held a maximum of 30 US gallons (110 L), and weighed, when full 588 pounds (267 kg) and could lay a smoke screen about 2,000 feet (610 m) long.
The tanks were used——to lay aerial smoke screens in combat during the airdrop of the US Army's 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment paratroopers at Nadzab, New Guinea in 1943.