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Unknown 75mm shell.

pajarito

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Ordnance approved
Hello there, folks! I’d appreciate some help identifying this 75 mm projectile, used in the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939.

Its length without adaptor or fuze is 300 mm. As you can see, it’s unusually long.

According to the measurements, it may match a projectile listed only as “Portuguese” in a UXO recovery manual from around 1940, which was fitted with a French fuze and gives no further details. According to that manual, it was used with the Schneider 75/28 Model 1906 field gun.

Thanks in advance.
 

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