WW2 old .45 ACP and a day i will never forget.

[BlazingAngel01]

I went to a gun show and I talked to this WW2 veteran. (thanked him for what he did and talked about his his combat experience and weapon and so on.) Well i said good by i walked away he stopped me and gave me this round he jammed and carried to Berlin and back I thought that he should keep it but he put it in my pocket and told me to remember the men that didn't come home.My eye's started to water as he walked away. It's now a center peace for my collection.

But i have a few questions about it.

1.The primer was hit but the round never left and i still hear powder in it?
2.Who made it?

My guess is the space in the seating let the powder burn.

Markings are .

E C
43

 

[SDC]

The headstamp shows that this round was made by Evansville Chrysler in 1943; given the shape and style of firing-pin imprint, this round would have been fired in a 1911 (the raised ridge around the actual firing-pin imprint shows that there was enough pressure inside the case to back part of the primer cup into the firing-pin hole in the breech-face, and the "tic" on the edge of the "E" matches up to where the ejector would be, given the drag on the FP imprint). Given that, I have to think that someone has pushed a fired RN FMJ (should be copper-washed steel-jacketed, if it matches the case it's in) into a fired case, and probably put something in to simulate powder (the flake powder these were originally loaded with is too light to hear when you shake them normally anyway).

 

[rcmodel]

I agree.

It has been fired, and from the primer appearance, ejector mark, and case expansion color differance, performed normally.

So has the bullet, I would guess.
No 1911 could have deformed a bullet that bad during a feeding malfunction that pushed the bullet into the case.

If there is something inside you can hear rattling, I'm betting it's sand.

If you know a reloader with an impact bullet puller, have him jar the bullet out and look at it.

I'm betting it has rifling marks on it from being fired into a dirt bank or something.


rcmodel

 

[Mac Attack]

Very touching gesture on the behalf of a WWII Vet. He could have just picked it up and "customized" the round himself.

 

[Blackfork]

Wwii 1911

I have an USGI Ithaca 1911 that was given to me by an old friend from church. He was issued the pistol when he was in England flying as a ball turrent gunner in the 8th Air Force on a B17. He was shot down with the pistol and hidden from the Germans by the French after D-day and managed to hang on to his pistol. (The French took it, then gave it back when the American Advance over-ran the village he was hidden in.) When he gave it to me it had seven rounds of EC 43 ammo in it. I asked him when the last time he had shot it was....and the last time was in England when they issued it to him.

Nice pistol.

Ammo looks a lot like the round you got- coppery looking slug, aluminum-looking case. Mine is unfired though, of course.