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WW2 US 40mm Bofors Rounds
- Thread starter tigbrand
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I do not even like 40mm Bofors shells. I would be happy to trade these. The HE as the ordnance corps logo with a fuse M64A1 - dated 1942. There are two M81's. One does not have a ballistic cap - short one is dated 1940; the complete M81 is dated 1942. The yellow HE is labeled Mk II T.
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That HE would look good in my case..... I suspect trying to bring that into the UK would be an exercise in futility!
It is possible the HE, without its fuse, would make it to the UK. I shipped quite a bit back and forth in early 2015 without issues. However, just in the past 6 months, almost anything that looks like a bullet gets stopped - both ways. If you want to assume the risk, I am willing to ship it. It should be shipped to someone with a collectors license, or you could be raided if it is stopped. I just had a couple of items make it out, and they were disassembled.
Send me a note at witkows@yahoo.com, and we can discuss it further.
I can screw pipe or bolts into the top and bottom, and it will look like a machined part. It will ship just fine.
Send me a note at witkows@yahoo.com, and we can discuss it further.
I can screw pipe or bolts into the top and bottom, and it will look like a machined part. It will ship just fine.
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I cannot find anything which defines the meaning of the color code ' red, yellow, black, green'. Maybe this is a late war variation of the HE-I-T (UL) which is 'red, white, back, green' on the 1943 dated color charts, no proof just speculation.
I've attached a U.S. Navy color code listing from 1947; the color yellow is no longer listed.
Brian
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Is it possible the red yellow fuze does not belong to that round? A dealer on GB has buckets full of those very fuzes....or the projo body had the black band added?.....
here it is
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Empty Italian made cases used in Yugoslavia are later relaborated after new round prefragmented with steel balls and fuse UT M8 SP (Soviet UM8 modified for the 40mm shells). Reparation and relaboration was done in the Sloboda Čačak factory in former Yugoslavia, now Serbia.
