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« on: April 07, 2012, 06:56:26 PM »
This is the biggest one I've found on aber to date
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« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2012, 07:06:04 PM »
ooh that is a large one Shocked
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« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2012, 07:11:33 PM »
I would have never of thought of finding it at the top by J
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« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2012, 07:15:34 PM »
add exactly the same one today on Aberavon  Shocked . that will do some damage .
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« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2012, 08:19:40 PM »
thats for shooting foreigners on my beach lol
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« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2012, 08:21:47 PM »
It looks like a .50 and probably from an aircraft cannon. The later Spitfire had that size but so have a lot since.
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« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2012, 08:28:57 PM »
Agree with Geoff, 0.5" caliber anti aircraft, possibly Browning (WW1) but probably Vickers around WW2. Have found some casings from these, about 5-6" long Smiley Apparently there was lots of practice between Porthcawl and Aberavon around then.
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« Reply #7 on: April 07, 2012, 08:30:32 PM »
lots of practice -- rofl .. they had plenty of practice in the ..1941 blitz of swansea 
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« Reply #8 on: April 07, 2012, 08:32:25 PM »
Apparently, if you dig in the dunes somewhere in between there are live ones too Huh
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« Reply #9 on: April 07, 2012, 08:35:08 PM »
You also find them on this side of the Severn the estuary was one big practice area for the RAF and most of these are from aircraft not anti aircraft. .50 wouldn't be much good as a ground to air weapon especially against bombers.
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« Reply #10 on: April 07, 2012, 08:39:08 PM »
Quote from: Chef  Geoff on April 07, 2012, 08:35:08 PM
You also find them on this side of the Severn the estuary was one big practice area for the RAF and most of these are from aircraft not anti aircraft. .50 wouldn't be much good as a ground to air weapon especially against bombers.
Agree again Geoff, imagine trying to fire one of those by hand @ 700 rounds per min Smiley
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« Reply #11 on: April 07, 2012, 08:42:53 PM »
ooh -- i feel a whole new research project coming on.

years ago, there used to be a website called swansea history web, which had identified all the UXB and dates and types of bombs dropped on swansea, the port and town over the 6 years of ww2. It was a wonderful piece of research which i don;t think is now available on the net .. unless anyone knows better!!
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« Reply #12 on: April 07, 2012, 08:50:58 PM »
I've fired the M87 a good few years ago which is a sniper rifle that fires the same size round. It's not really designed as an anti-personnel weapon, more for stopping lorries lol but the longest sniper kill shot was made with one of those bullets at nearly two and a half Kilometres Shocked Apparently if you get hit with one it doesn't so much go through you, more turns you inside out, wraps you up and takes you with it. Cheesy
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« Reply #13 on: April 07, 2012, 09:22:26 PM »
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« Reply #14 on: April 07, 2012, 10:16:01 PM »
Quote from: handyman [Alan} on April 07, 2012, 08:42:53 PM
ooh -- i feel a whole new research project coming on.

years ago, there used to be a website called swansea history web, which had identified all the UXB and dates and types of bombs dropped on swansea, the port and town over the 6 years of ww2. It was a wonderful piece of research which i don;t think is now available on the net .. unless anyone knows better!!




Was it this one ?  Disappeared long ago, but you can resurrect it here :  http://web.archive.org/web/20081023023536/http://www.swanseahistoryweb.org.uk/subheads/blindex.htm
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