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In fighting for the Soviet Motherland Lieutenant Vasilii Vasilevich Tsarenkov (547th Army Mortar Regiment) was wounded 18.9.44 was lightly wounded by random shrapnel in the right hip.
Signed Chief of Evacuation Hospital #2012, Medical Services Major Frenkel
The crew were able to walk away from it, straight into the CO’s office for a debrief sans tea and biscuits (probably).:eek:
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Regards, Ned.
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EUR 26,50Well, I went out this morning to have a quick look at the bombing range that Jayh has been to a couple of times, as has DM. Jayh met me there to show me round and we trudged off in the fog…….
As we reached the location, Jayh was pointing out all the areas where he had found various WW2 relics and said that a lot of stuff was on the surface. I turned on the detector and immediately got a signal. In fact I got lots of signals. To be honest, the whole damn FIELD was giving off one big mixed iron/brass signal !!!
I dug the first couple on the wall of a ditch and out popped two M104 nose fuses from 23lb frag bombs, used by the RAF and USAAF to practice with 
:)
But that was it. The metal detector went off because it was constantly bleeping. Even turning the discrim round to max had little effect !
So me an Jayh wandered around the field using the good old Mk II eyeballs, (they would be Mk I but we both wear glasses so they’re Mk IIs :) ). After 15 minutes I wished I hadn’t bothered bringing my detector. After 30 mins I started to say things like ‘There’s another one of those bloody nose fuses’. After 45 mins we went back to the car. I couldn’t carry any more and neither could Jayh !!!
Here is what I recovered. I’ve not cleaned the nose fuses yet but thought you’d like to see them pre-cleaning…….
Remember, apart from two of the nose fuses, everything was picked up off the surface !
Some of the inner workings of the nose fuses. Also note the bent brass band in the middle. It looks like an artillery shell drive band but has no rifling marks on it. Any ideas ?
This next item reminds me of the kind of markings you get on some NO 36 base nuts. Indeed, one of them says ‘42′ and another ‘IZ’. Is it off one of the nose fuses or something else ? It is bigger than a base nut………about 2 inches across.
This item is also currently a bit of a mystery. It appears to be the central blast cap for an artillery shell. It has a small ‘blast cap’ and a screw thread so it obviously went into something. About an inch 1/4 in diameter. (ish)
And it has lots of nice markings on it, including the WD arrow. What is it?
And now the find of the day……sorry….find of the 45 minutes…….
If we were ever in any doubt about what kind of nose fuses were being used at the range this would have solved it.
I LOVE it ! :)
Jayh got 3 as well but they looked like they needed a good de-rusting bath
This is the plate that sits on the top of the firing plunger situated right on top of the nose fuse.
I’ll post pics of the cleaned fuses when I’ve done them.
Hope you like the finds
Steve T
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