15-063 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

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[browningautorifle]

That's a lot of smoke. Those are the same smk rounds I learned on in 1974...

[gtodan]

We were breaking open wood crates of 105mm dated 1955 in the early 70's.

[browningautorifle]

Yup, we were using 81 mm mortar ammo, M43 A1 HE that was dated 1945, stamped on the bomb body. The fuzes were C17 Canadian fuzes that dated back to 1951/2...nice stuff...

[gtodan]

Always made me kinda itchy when you pulled the lanyard. Squib rounds are biotch in a howitzer....

[browningautorifle]

We had to perform a striker test on the Korean war surplus fuzes, C17. They had no safety pin, just a SQ/D screw and a plastic bottle cap sort of thing...I just never could manage to do it.

[gtodan]

This was the "crotch". You dont need no stinkin test. Break the crates, cut the powder, set the fuze, mate up and load-kaboom, rust, discoloration and all. Mind you we were shooting these rounds outta howitzers with 1950's SN's so I guess the gunny thought it was an ok operation. Most of the battery was destroyed in Korea due to an ammo dump mishap, imagine that.

[browningautorifle]

The very thing we just discussed...