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Brig. C. Aubrey Dixon
Brigadier C. Aubrey Dixon (1901-[?]) OBE was a Major of the British Royal Arsenal at Woolwich and chief small arms ammunition designer for the British during World War II. He designed a bullet that...ver maisBrigadier C. Aubrey Dixon (1901-[?]) OBE was a Major of the British Royal Arsenal at Woolwich and chief small arms ammunition designer for the British during World War II. He designed a bullet that came to be known as the 0.303 Incendiary B Mark VI, issued in June 1940. It was able to be mass-produced, but retained similar incendiary capabilities to that invented by Belgian inventor de Wilde in Switzerland in 1938 and purchased that same year by the British Air Ministry. Aubrey Dixon was also a member of the tribunal responsible for the trial of Field Marshal von Manstein.ver menos