Found only one reference:
"It has been variously reported that such materials were used to rout particularly well emplaced (as deep in caves) Red partisans near Kerch in the Crimea, late in 1942 or early in 1943, but I lack details on what precisely was used, by whom, and to what effect."
http://www.battlefield.ru/forum/archive2/mb.cgi-warclub1+939332401.49855.htm