Hello chaps,
Thought you might like to see this nice little grouping I picked up recently.
It relates to the Sheffield Blitz 1940 and is nice because it's pretty much an DIY instant shrapnel collection as it contains a nice range of Luftwaffe ordnance items.
It all came in a crude wartime box about the size of a civvy gas mask box. Nicely, on the outside was written: "Destruction of Sheffield 12th and 15th December 1940. Bomb shrapnel from Blitz. Bullets & cannon shell fragments fired at Mother and me from a bomber 1940. Aluminium from bomber hit by flak. It blew up. Bombs exploded inside aircraft. No crew found. August 1940.
The pieces in the photo are (left to right, top to bottom):
-piece of parachute mine cord with note 8 1941
-x3 small pieces of parachute mine casing (bubbled on one side due to the heat of the explosion!)
-large melted lump of aluminium bomber? 3x3
-melted lump of aluminium bomber? 1x1
-Piece of SC Bomb Shrapnel 5x2, jagged, with black paint on outside
-x2 exploded 13mm aircraft cannon shell heads
-exploded German 20mm cannon shell with black paint on outside
-x2 exploded German machine gun bullets
(all the above presumably fired at the boy and his mother?)
There is very little information with the items so I just wonder what the full stories are behind the items....
Austin
Thought you might like to see this nice little grouping I picked up recently.
It relates to the Sheffield Blitz 1940 and is nice because it's pretty much an DIY instant shrapnel collection as it contains a nice range of Luftwaffe ordnance items.
It all came in a crude wartime box about the size of a civvy gas mask box. Nicely, on the outside was written: "Destruction of Sheffield 12th and 15th December 1940. Bomb shrapnel from Blitz. Bullets & cannon shell fragments fired at Mother and me from a bomber 1940. Aluminium from bomber hit by flak. It blew up. Bombs exploded inside aircraft. No crew found. August 1940.
The pieces in the photo are (left to right, top to bottom):
-piece of parachute mine cord with note 8 1941
-x3 small pieces of parachute mine casing (bubbled on one side due to the heat of the explosion!)
-large melted lump of aluminium bomber? 3x3
-melted lump of aluminium bomber? 1x1
-Piece of SC Bomb Shrapnel 5x2, jagged, with black paint on outside
-x2 exploded 13mm aircraft cannon shell heads
-exploded German 20mm cannon shell with black paint on outside
-x2 exploded German machine gun bullets
(all the above presumably fired at the boy and his mother?)
There is very little information with the items so I just wonder what the full stories are behind the items....
Austin