Historians told about non-standard types of motor fuel during WWII
Combat operations during the Great Patriotic War made it difficult to provide troops and industry with fuel and lubricants. Sometimes ingenuity and engineering ingenuity were required to fulfill supply tasks. About this "Izvestia" told Russian historians.
"In particular, during the war, pipelines were first widely used for the delivery of fuel and lubricants. One of the first such experiences was obtained when providing gasoline to the units of the 52nd Army on the bridgehead near the Volkhov River in March - April 1942. Then, in June - July 1942, a long pipeline was laid along the bottom of Lake Ladoga for the first time in the history of military affairs," said historian Yuri Minkevich.
According to him, other non-standard approaches were used. For example, they produced "solid gasoline" - cured fuel in the form of briquettes with a fine-cell structure with cell walls made of a strong substance, through which the fuel could not seep.
According to Elena Mikhailova, head of the department of exposition and exhibition and scientific and educational work of the memorial complex "Partisan Glade", partisan units in Belarus and Bryansk region used "Minsk retorts" - artisanal equipment for distilling resin of coniferous trees into turpentine. It was used as an antiseptic and, according to some sources, as a fuel for refueling vehicles.
At the same time in the rear were widespread gas-generator cars, the engines of which worked on a gas mixture obtained as a result of slow burning of wood, said the head of the branch "Soldiers of the Fatherland" of the Museum of History of Irkutsk, Sergei Trofimenko.
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