Special ammunition for aircraft use is packed for shipment in wooden boxes 9 1/2 by 18 1/2 inches by 14 1/2 inches deep, containing 75 paper boxes of 20 rounds each or a total of 1,500 rounds. On the sides of the box is printed the kind of ammunition contained therein together with the words: "For aircraft use - No clips or bandoleers."

On each end is stamped a star within a circle. A 4-inch yellow band is painted across the middle of the top, bottom, and sides and a 2-inch yellow band is painted - across each end above the handhold recess. A band of one or two colors is painted on each yellowband denoting the kind of ammunition.

The colors are as follows:

Armor piercing ------------ Incendiary ------------------- Tracer ------------------------- Armor-piercing-incendiary Armor-piereing-tracer ----

Blue Red Green Blue and red Blue and green

Each paper box is sealed with a yellow label on which is painted a colored band denoting the kind of ammunition.