Photo: Loading Boxcar With Artillery/Bomb Shells (Circa 1919)
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Photo: Loading Boxcar With Artillery/Bomb Shells (Circa 1919) Photo from the National Archives: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/86717616 On the link scroll to enlarge the photo. Anyone know if these are artillery shells or bombs? Perhaps these are just the casings and not filled with explosives. Caption: Manufacturing shells for the government. Detroit Shell Co. plant, Detroit, Mich. Loading shell in freight car. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA |
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Richard Townsend
They look like artillery shells to me. In my brief Navy days I learned that the projectiles often were separate from the powder.
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On Oct 12, 2022, at 9:07 PM, Bob Chaparro via groups.io <chiefbobbb@...> wrote:
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Jeffrey White
Artillery shells. The ones I've seen in the field had a shipping plug in the fuse well with a lifting ring on the end. These appear to have some other type of plug in the fuse well. US 155mm howitzers fire separate loading ammunition. There is a projectile and the powder is in cloth bags tied into a bundle. The gun crew unties the bundle and removes the number of bags to get to the charge the fire direction center specifies for the range and angle they are firing. A fused projectile is rammed into the breach, the powder charge goes in behind it and the breach is closed, a primer that looks like a .45/70 blank is inserted into the firing mechanism and the lanyard attached. On the command to fire the lanyard is pulled and the round is fired. The breach is opened and the chamber is swabbed out with water, much the same as we did in the civil war. Jeff White Alma IL
On 10/12/2022 2:07 PM, Bob Chaparro via groups.io wrote:
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