Please specify which you want. Primer pocket area only shows a neatly finished epoxy type substance. Motors were shipped separately and had different types of warheads assembled when ready to use. The store will not work correctly in the case when cookies are disabled. Colored signals were more for signally, but they did provide some illumination. These are the most useful and highly respected source documents for artillery enthusiasts, be they museum curators, skirmishers and shooters, reenactors, or makers of model cannons. 13549A- Publication 21- Civil War Field Gun Limber for all Carriages, 112pp- $30
Although 1954 dated and made of steel, it is otherwise the same as WW2 production cases. The muzzle end is pointed in the desired direction and that tube smacked against the ground. One mint, unissued M6 ignition cartridge as shown in the photo. There is no special locking feature designed into the fuze for shear safety if the bomb is accidentally dropped. The Stokes mortars and projectiles were replaced in U.S. service when the improved Stokes-Brandt or Brandt type mortars (essentially the U.S. 81mm Mortar M1) were adopted prior to WW2. INERT- no flammable or explosive components. The fixed ammunition used in all of these was based on the same 76.2x585R cartridge case - designated 3 inch Cartridge Case Mk IIM2. The bore has corrosion from firing and poor cleaning, or maybe just exposure to salt air for extended periods. November 1918. Loaded, live round, but due to age and apparent poor storages sold as display item only and not safe for actual use. Three are variations of the M19 green star parachute signal- M19 dated 1944; M19A1 dated 1954, and M19A2 dated 1967. I expect to see all of these in the future volumes of this set. INERT, no flammable or explosive componenets. Projectile is December 1942 dated in excellent condition. Fired from a rifle grenade launcher to about 600 foot altitude, where it ejects a pyrotechnic payload, either a single parachute-suspended star which will fall at a slow rate burning for 20-30 seconds; or a cluster of five free-falling stars (like fireworks) which burn for 4-10 seconds. Co. Tipp City, O. is ink stamped on the thin aluminum case of the flare signal The short aluminum cartridge case headstamp identifies the maker and patent info along with date of May 1945,and also stamped on the flare case bodynear the mouth.
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