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WWII British 2 inch illumination mortar with parachute. Parachute is complete, I don't know if the red cloth belongs with it or not but it looks nice so it stays for now. Can't read the month, maybe a 4, but the year is 1942. The fin is dated 1940. Apparently after WWII was over, they stopped using these mortars for HE but kept them in inventory for illumination. They went to a steel case which seems to have rusted easly because all the post war examples I saw on the net were rusted badly.

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