What's your newest militaria (2015 thread)

LINKER-DELINKER HAND 50. CAL M12

 

Steel hook to close the duffle bag with a padlock.

 

First type of US Army Mountain and Ski Boots. This one had leather soles with nails and Tricouni cleats.

 

A Howell and Bell 16mm movie camera, civilian version, but apparently models from civilian production were procured by the US Signal Corps until dedicated Army production lots were available.

 

M1 Carbine mags.

 

M1 Garand En-Bloc clip.

 

RATION, TYPE D, 4OZ. BAR.

 

Nice stuff. Not yet. Rich A. in Pa.

 

Those are museum quality . Way to go!

 

The Italian Republic (R.I. ) version of the war merit medal . They also have a V.E. version for the king.

 

Nice piece Skipper.

 

Nice award.
Got this field jacket so far. Rich A. in Pa.

 

I see some are tracers, do you know what the others are?

KTK

 

The Black tips should be Armor Piercing, M-2.

 

The blacks are AP indeed!

 

Military production 30.06 ammo is quite a complex subject, it has been produced in an amazingly high number of countries:

Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Cambodia
Canada
Chile
China (Comm)
China (Nat.)
Colombia
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
Dominican Rep.
Ethiopia
Finland France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
India
Indonesia
Iran
Israel
Italy
Japan
Korea
Mexico
Morocco
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway Pakistan
Philippines
Poland
Rep. South Africa
Russia
Saudi Arabia
S. Vietnam
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Thailand
Turkey
UK
U.S.A
Yugoslavia


This is a list of color codes found on 30.06 ammo from around the world

• Black: AP
• Black/Silver: AP Plate Test
• Blue: Incendiary (also tracer from Argentina)
• Green: AP from UK, Tracer from Argentina
• Green/White: Frangible
• Green/Tan: Frangible
• Orange: Tracer
• Red: Tracer (also some Incendiary from UK, and AP from Argentina)
• Silver: Armor-piercing Incendiary
• White: Tracer, unfinished Frangible,
• Yellow: Observation and Proof rounds (AP from Belgium)

Source:

http://cartridgecollectors.org/?page=introduction-to-30-06-cartridges

 

Only stuff I feed my M-1 is U.S. G.I.. Rich A. in Pa.

 

This is something very special and dear to me. It's a NAZI silver coin, made to commemorate the rise into power of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP. On one side there is the inscription: " 1933 - Im Jahre deutscher Schicksalswende" 1933 - The year the German fate turned around", on the other side it reads: "Adolf Hitler - Unser ist die Zukunft" Adolf Hitler - The future is ours

It's not only one of the very few German objects in my collection but to me it has a very high idealistic value! It was given to me as a gift by a gentleman from Pennsylvania, his father, an officer with the 315th F.A. Bn., had fought in my neck of the woods. A few weeks back I guided the gentleman over the battlefields his father fought on. When we were finished he presented me the coin his father had brought back from the war. It's one of my favorite pieces.

 

Two dog tags that were used as address tags on some kind of luggage.




One to the IRTC (Infantry Replacement Training Center) in Camp Croft, South Carolina.




The other one to Company A of the 318 Infantry Regiment at Camp Forrest, Tennessee.

 

Nice. Rich A. in Pa.