Re: Artillery

[James Dennis <jrdennis@earthlink.net>]

>At 15:27 4/27/00 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>Sounds like a 105mm round.
>>
>>Ed
>>
>>At 03:26 PM 4/27/00 -0400, you wrote:
>>>Inquiry: Re brass shell, 4" diameter at top, 14 1/2" long, aprox 14 5/8" 
dia.
>>>at bottom - anyone have any idea what mm. shell? Marty
>
>Not with a 14-5/8" diameter base.  The 105mm casing is the same diameter 
>all the way down.  This sucker's base is wider than its length.  If the 
>14-5/8" should be 4-5/8", then it probably would be a 105mm.  By the time I 
>went on active duty in '61, brass Arty cartridges were a thing of the past.
>
>Tommy
>
>

It could be from an M-60 tank's 105mm gun.  As I recall, they were the 
same length as the Arty 105mm.  

I remember seeing and firing those up to the mid 80s.  A lot of Tank 
units would keep them and turn them into lamps or other trophies.