Here you go.......As you can see it is marked US with the anchor, thus it is Navy. This was for the quad AA guns on the battleships and such.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1.1%22/75_caliber_gun
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My greatest fear is that one day I will die and my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them
"Don't tell me these are investments if you never intend to sell anything" (Quote: Wife)
I used to play with those on the battleship Texas when I was a kid.
Thanks for the info.. I just wasn't sure of how a Russian soldier could have brought it back from the war. I was thinking, it may have been a lend lease type of ammo..
Not as far as I have read. Who knows, he could have picked it up at a flea market. We all know how vet stories get mixed up by the families
Was this vet living in the US?
"Please", Thank You" and proper manners appreciated
My greatest fear is that one day I will die and my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them
"Don't tell me these are investments if you never intend to sell anything" (Quote: Wife)
Yeah. Your right. Story goes, he immigrated to US and pass not to long ago.
Yep. Who knows where he got it.
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