WW2 relics?

AW1Phillips · Jan 8, 2018

So I searched a remote hill side yesterday about a 1-2 miles from Asan beach, Guam. This is the beach were half of the invasion force landed during the WW2 battle for Guam. I found a .50 cal round which I'm certain was fired from the US side but I have some other things I would like yall to look at. I'm just not sure what the large object on the far left is, any ideas? I Believe the metal chunks are shrapnel since there is lots of this stuff scattered everywhere. The metal does have some wired grooves on it. What do you guys think? For reference there's a New .380 round on right for size compression.

Dogfisch · Jan 8, 2018

AW1Phillips said:
So I searched a remote hill side yesterday about a 1-2 miles from Asan beach, Guam. This is the beach were half of the invasion force landed during the WW2 battle for Guam. I found a .50 cal round which I'm certain was fired from the US side but I have some other things I would like yall to look at. I'm just not sure what the large object on the far left is, any ideas? I Believe the metal chunks are shrapnel since there is lots of this stuff scattered everywhere. The metal does have some wired grooves on it. What do you guys think? For reference there's a New .380 round on right for size compression.

My fist thought was Japanese grenade fuse, but it doesn't exactly match any I have seen. Can you post a few more pictures of different angles?

AW1Phillips · Jan 9, 2018

I will have pictures up soon, im currently trying to clean it.

AW1Phillips · Jan 9, 2018

closer pictures

Here are some closer pics i took after taking a wire brush to it. It looks to have copper or brass coated top plate and small gears. The pipe or handle and lower parts have some sort of shiny metal to it. i hope its a relic.

tarawa · Jan 9, 2018

With the small gears and the brass (copper) parts, it may be the internals of some sort of timed explosive fuse. This is just a guess, since I have never seen one taken apart.

Dogfisch · Jan 10, 2018

AW1Phillips said:
Here are some closer pics i took after taking a wire brush to it. It looks to have copper or brass coated top plate and small gears. The pipe or handle and lower parts have some sort of shiny metal to it. i hope its a relic.

yeah now that its cleaned up I can see it is not a grenade fuse. The gears and offset peg on the underside make me believe it was used in something much larger and mechanical.

davidlhyde63366 · Jan 10, 2018

cool finds

Very interesting finds .

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