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what is it, old (experienced) fellas?
tsavo303
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Found in a WWII navy vets stuff. calibration of some sort scaled on the side
that's all I know, his widow was curious
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Looks like a mortar fuse to me. May be artillery.
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That seems to be about the right size for an 81 mm mortar fuze.....its a variable (probably time) fuze, of some type....you can tell by the numbers along the base.
said its heavy and feels solid except for the rings which can be rotated to those index marks
I'm sure its a time fuze now.....those rings rotate so the gun crew can set different times on the shells for air-burst or ground burst
prob give to bomb tech
If he was on a warship, it may be a fuze for some kind of naval gun shell..........if he was on an Amphibious assault ship, I'd lean toward some kind of Marine or Army mortar or artillery piece.
a 5" AAC round.
ADDENDUM; There is no way in hell that's a prox fuze. It's all brass! Also, the single ring is FUNCTION time. How long it takes it to go off after impact, therefore NOT anti-aircraft. It's not a bomb fuze either, it has no vanes.
If I remember correctly, we fired aac to give a air burst over
suspected positions. We fired quite a bit of aac as well as hi-cap
and occasionally willie-peter. Very seldom worried about air attacks
since the carriers kept a pretty good cover over us.
I would set that aside and have the local law enforcement come and get it. Never know when something will just blow up, happens all the time in Europe when they find old ordanace.
Just look in the base. If you don't see a rod sticking down loaded with explosive, it's an inert clockwork mechanism. I can tell from the picture it doesn't. No need to turn it in.
What then determines at what point an aac shell goes off?
If I remember correctly, we fired aac to give a air burst over
suspected positions. We fired quite a bit of aac as well as hi-cap
and occasionally willie-peter. Very seldom worried about air attacks
since the carriers kept a pretty good cover over us.
Your fuze had a "set-back" ball and spring assembly first stage arming that started the timer at firing by the inertia. The shell then traveled a pre-set time until detonation. If I am correct about the time period (WWI), the fuze in question was made before AA was thought of.
Waws always told it is from an 81 mm mortar.