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German Projectile 2
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I measured your image and your given length seems to be incorrect. It should be more around 495 mm instead 595 mm.
//Edit: When looking a second time at the picture and comparing the size of the bricks in the backgound with this shell and the shells on other pictures it seems that it is more likely a 150/155 mm shell.
Do you have pictures of the fuze hole or remember if it was a thick or thin walled shell?
//Edit: When looking a second time at the picture and comparing the size of the bricks in the backgound with this shell and the shells on other pictures it seems that it is more likely a 150/155 mm shell.
Do you have pictures of the fuze hole or remember if it was a thick or thin walled shell?
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Hello Joe,
thanks for the extra picture. It makes things more clear but not fully clear.
The shape and stamps let me think that it is a german 15 cm Gr. 96. What I am missing is the screwable base but maybe it's just not visible in the fotos. I also think that the base not has been machined completely hence the stud in the center. The "U" marking could indicate a "school" shell for classroom use which was not intended/allowed to be to be fired. For such shells often components with small failures were used.
I think I have never seen a 15 cm Gr. 96 in reality and guess it's a rare shell.
thanks for the extra picture. It makes things more clear but not fully clear.
The shape and stamps let me think that it is a german 15 cm Gr. 96. What I am missing is the screwable base but maybe it's just not visible in the fotos. I also think that the base not has been machined completely hence the stud in the center. The "U" marking could indicate a "school" shell for classroom use which was not intended/allowed to be to be fired. For such shells often components with small failures were used.
I think I have never seen a 15 cm Gr. 96 in reality and guess it's a rare shell.
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Thank you … it really throws us off when the museum has this stuff miss marked horribly like that.
Joe
Joe