WW2 Trench Art Bullet

[skull181]

A 50 mm cannon shell from a US P47 Thunderbolt.

Totally inert and safe.

The P47 crashed in North Wales on a training flight. Pilot was killed.

 

[beihan62]

Hi Skull81,forgive the correction but what you have there is a point five heavy machine gun round also called a fifty cal,if I am right your P47 came from 495 FTG,Atcham,and crashed on a training flight,(near a wall at the edge of a forest)I too have one from a P47c5RE,416585,also from 495 FTG Atcham,headstamp DM 42,my round too was "inerted" as a result of the crash,pilot bailed landed in a tree uninjured,have you visited Fort Perch Rock museum,the tailwheel assembly from my P47 used to be on display there,
Regards,
Don,

 

[raymeketa]

The double cannelure usually indicated an AP or API. Most likely an AP Caliber .50 M2. Des Moines Ordnance plant, 1943.

Ray