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    Quote Originally Posted by Doco overboard View Post
    I found some surplus 06 rounds with white and green painted tips mixed in an old ammo can. Seems as if they were used for aerial gunnery practice according to the inter-web. They have a 43 head stamp which corroborated with what I read and it was very interesting reading.
    The white and green denote frangible ammunition. It was also used for subcaliber range training for tank crews. Ayers Kaserne had a range set up like an old time shooting gallery with cutout tanks replacing the ducks. Spent much time training gunners to track movers. A single shot relay was installed in the firing circuit to the coax machinegun. Frangible ammo, cal.30 with the M37 Brownings and later 7.62 frangible, M160 did an adequate job, albeit at reduced ranges, and an adequate backstop could be more readily constructed. Much of similar gun manipulation training in later years was done using the M55 laser and a reflective board.


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