Different bullets, same battlefield

[Chopper]

Not a problem mate. It's my pleasure

[zodiacdave]

chopper, PM sent

[Wansdyke44]

A few different bullets and casings found in the same area on a battlefield in Belgium.
Come on Chopper, tell me which are German and which are American
Plus an armour piercing shell.
Dave

The first shell is German.

[Wansdyke44]

Some good news though... the fluted rounds are not American! They're German! Manufactured by the Königliches Munitionsfabrik, in Spandau!

It's a year earlier than yours, but other than that, it's exactly the same! Well done mate! B-)

Yes they're Exerzier-Patrone S, either left over from an exercise or perhaps loaded into an MG belt to cut down on the rate of fire.

[william holmes]

That armour piercing shell looks like it has 2 drive bands. Does it ?

[Verulamium]

I've heard of blanks being used to launch grenades from rifles. The launching power comes from the propellant. You clearly don't want to be firing a bullet into the backend of the grenade hence the blank. This may have been more of a WW I thing but I'm no expert.....

[Wansdyke44]

I've heard of blanks being used to launch grenades from rifles. The launching power comes from the propellant. You clearly don't want to be firing a bullet into the backend of the grenade hence the blank. This may have been more of a WW I thing but I'm no expert.....

Indeed, but not using this one piece type of blank round. For grenade launcher the Germans used 7.92mm with crimped end.

[brian]

blanks are sometimes used to fire rifle grenades!, so that might explain them being on a battlefield? , and you can get a thing called bullet-through- grenade, which allows live ammo to launch rifle grenades, but this is fairly modern