I’ve been at it again ! WW2 airfield. 1st visit of 2009
Hi All
Well the snow finally melted and the weather turned warmer so I decided to get out to the WW2 airfield I have been going to.
Not as good a day as when i found the Merlin exhaust ports, but a good day none the less.
I need help with a couple of items below, especially the 303 cartridge and the aircraft part.
Here we go !!
Here's everything i found prior to cleaning.
....And then after the obligatory 3 hours of poking, scraping, rubbing and scrubbing....
First up is BUTTONS !! Anyone identify them as army issue on shirts ?
You shouldn't go anywhere without your Brylcream !
Nor should you go anywhere without the appropriate toothpaste !
But if you do leave home without either, this probably would have come in handy :) :)
Some chunks of stuff i have yet to identify (apart from the 'O' ring). Can anyone help with the other 2 ? (for a scale, the 'o' ring is about 3/4 of an inch in diameter)
This thing is about 3 inches tall and about 1.5 inches in diameter. One end has a slider, the other has what appears to be a lens and a mounting for a bulb. Anyone any clue ?
This next item is a bit of a puzzler.....Why oh WHY did someone firstly have a grenade on an airfield and secondly, why did they remove the base nut ? (I have plenty of base nuts and it is obviously a Mills grenade No36 and the nut has been removed, not left in situ when the grenade was thrown and subsequently blasted form the main body of the grenade)
Now a very nice piece....something i'd never found before until today ! A cap off a 20mm projectile :eek: :eek:
Also in this pic are a .45cal bullet (far right) and a .30 cal M1 Carbine bullet (middle).
Some small arms cartridges. Mainly 303 apart from the one bottom left which is the remains of a 30cal.
Now here's where i need help as well......the 303 second from the right, bottom row. There is no percussion cap in the base of the cartridge and the cartridge itself has 4 regular and very deliberate 'scores' in it. Can someone tell me what type of cartridge this is ? (It's an ICI (Kynoch) made cartridge, made in 1940 and with an additional stamp of W1)
A load of 50 cal cartridges and bullets.
A complete 20mm cartridge and one that's been cut through.
And last but not least an aircraft part. I am not sure which aircraft it is from but the serial number stamp on it is of an identical style to piece of P-51D i found a while back. That piece was prefixed by '109'. This piece is prefixed by '104'. Anyone tell me which make/model of aircraft this denotes ?
The object is very light and about 4 inches tall. It's a precision bit of kit !
And that's the results of todays search.
I daren't tell the wife I am gonna need ANOTHER display cabinet very VERY soon :D :D :D :D
Steve T
Well the snow finally melted and the weather turned warmer so I decided to get out to the WW2 airfield I have been going to.
Not as good a day as when i found the Merlin exhaust ports, but a good day none the less.
I need help with a couple of items below, especially the 303 cartridge and the aircraft part.
Here we go !!
Here's everything i found prior to cleaning.
....And then after the obligatory 3 hours of poking, scraping, rubbing and scrubbing....
First up is BUTTONS !! Anyone identify them as army issue on shirts ?
You shouldn't go anywhere without your Brylcream !
Nor should you go anywhere without the appropriate toothpaste !
But if you do leave home without either, this probably would have come in handy :) :)
Some chunks of stuff i have yet to identify (apart from the 'O' ring). Can anyone help with the other 2 ? (for a scale, the 'o' ring is about 3/4 of an inch in diameter)
This thing is about 3 inches tall and about 1.5 inches in diameter. One end has a slider, the other has what appears to be a lens and a mounting for a bulb. Anyone any clue ?
This next item is a bit of a puzzler.....Why oh WHY did someone firstly have a grenade on an airfield and secondly, why did they remove the base nut ? (I have plenty of base nuts and it is obviously a Mills grenade No36 and the nut has been removed, not left in situ when the grenade was thrown and subsequently blasted form the main body of the grenade)
Now a very nice piece....something i'd never found before until today ! A cap off a 20mm projectile :eek: :eek:
Also in this pic are a .45cal bullet (far right) and a .30 cal M1 Carbine bullet (middle).
Some small arms cartridges. Mainly 303 apart from the one bottom left which is the remains of a 30cal.
Now here's where i need help as well......the 303 second from the right, bottom row. There is no percussion cap in the base of the cartridge and the cartridge itself has 4 regular and very deliberate 'scores' in it. Can someone tell me what type of cartridge this is ? (It's an ICI (Kynoch) made cartridge, made in 1940 and with an additional stamp of W1)
A load of 50 cal cartridges and bullets.
A complete 20mm cartridge and one that's been cut through.
And last but not least an aircraft part. I am not sure which aircraft it is from but the serial number stamp on it is of an identical style to piece of P-51D i found a while back. That piece was prefixed by '109'. This piece is prefixed by '104'. Anyone tell me which make/model of aircraft this denotes ?
The object is very light and about 4 inches tall. It's a precision bit of kit !
And that's the results of todays search.
I daren't tell the wife I am gonna need ANOTHER display cabinet very VERY soon :D :D :D :D
Steve T
