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sourpatch45 · 11-06-2009, 10:51 AM

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Originally Posted by LEVE

It is also possible that it was made from a training round. Those, sometimes, were all aluminum, or had aluminum tips.

well this projectile is steel with a screw on aluminum tip, the only point of that is for a explosive round.

KMFG · 11-06-2009, 11:09 AM

I have to agree with sourpatch. Those pictures, and that diagram especially, are dead nuts what this thing looks like. More pictures of the end cap and inside the "shell":

KMFG · 11-06-2009, 11:10 AM

I should be a hand model

james in denver · 11-06-2009, 11:34 AM

A quick google search reveiled this:

Rickard, J (5 June 2009), Battle of Cherbourg, 22-29 June 1944 , Battle of Cherbourg, 22-29 June 1944

Seems that the port was attacked and tried to be captured by the Allied forces but the Germans did a good job of destroying it.

History is cool!

James in Denver

xd-gunner · 11-06-2009, 12:25 PM

It is "trench art". made by a soldier in the field with the materials he had at hand. Very neat piece.

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Klaws · 11-06-2009, 05:53 PM

Good for a spear tip.

Rusty Shackelford · 11-06-2009, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by xd-gunner

It is "trench art". made by a soldier in the field with the materials he had at hand. Very neat piece.

I have to agree. GIs had a lot of "free" time on their hands (punctuated by periods of unending terror as the old saw goes) and they did what they could to occupy that time. This sort of thing was a lot more common during WWI because of the trench warfare (much more free time).

KMFG · 11-06-2009, 06:17 PM

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I'll buy it from you! $50

lol, if I wasn't from my grandfather, you'd have a deal

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KMFG XDTalk Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Apollo Beach, FL Posts: 34	I have to agree with sourpatch. Those pictures, and that diagram especially, are dead nuts what this thing looks like. More pictures of the end cap and inside the "shell":
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james in denver XDTalk 100 Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Colorado Posts: 476	A quick google search reveiled this: Rickard, J (5 June 2009), Battle of Cherbourg, 22-29 June 1944 , Battle of Cherbourg, 22-29 June 1944 Seems that the port was attacked and tried to be captured by the Allied forces but the Germans did a good job of destroying it. History is cool! James in Denver
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