That 76mm tank shell can be from any variant of Sherman with a 76 mm gun. Not just the m4a2e8. In fact if it was from an American Sherman it was more likely an m4a3, since that was the variant the Americans used the most. It could also have been from a m18 Hellcat tank destroyer, which used the same gun. Yes, I'm a bit of a Sherman tank nerd, I'll shut up now ;).
Hey there... It's not a bipod. That are parts of allied bomb releases. They fall down, when bomb is dropped. Found several of those in the past. Good luck 🍀
et-tanker here. I hate misfires because of the chance of a hangfire (a delayed ignition) but it looks like that 76mm may have misfired and then the loader threw it out his hatch.
I’m going to nerd out @7:59 the piece he is holding is called a booster cup. It’s screwed onto the fuse before attaching it to a projectile. First time I’ve seen a booster cup separate from the fuse itself. Nice find, love seeing this old tech being pulled from the earth 🌍
Love your videos I hardly comment history is my favorite subject ww2. Is my favorite thing. How often do you find Mauser rifles. We collect them love how gorgeous they are. Have you ever used one? If your ever in America. Let’s hangout you can try working history
Some information about the movie "FURY" (txt by Jerry Garrett) In the movie, it was a Sherman M4A3E8, more commonly known as an “Easy Eight”. If the movie was based on a real character - and supposedly it is not - Collier would not have been driving an Easy Eight. And he wouldn’t have been fighting a German Tiger TI - but we digress. In the film, since a point is made in the movie that Collier loves his tank, and he and the crew have named it “Fury” - the name they’ve painted on its 76 mm gun barrel. Supposedly, they’ve all been fighting together - in Fury - since the North Africa campaign in 1942. If that was so, Fury would have probably been a much earlier model M4 Sherman, like an M2 or M4A3, each of which went into production in 1942. But with a 50 percent casualty rate in most mid-WWII tank battles, an earlier M2 or M4 model that survived 3+ years of combat would have been unheard of. (In fact, only one Sherman tank - a Canadian one - is known to have survived as long as from June 1944’s D-Day all the way to May 1945’s V-E Day.) In real life, the Easy Eight, equipped with its 76 mm gun, was a relatively late addition to the war effort - only in production since late 1944. The Easy Eight featured a bigger gun and a better suspension. And they were not completely at the mercy of German tanks. Production notes mention that Fury was designed and built by Henry Ford, and the German tanks were masterminded by Ferdinand Porsche. (Ergo, it was not a fair fight!) Yeah, okay, kinda sorta. Ford Motor Company didn’t design the Sherman, but it did build them - but only 1,690 M4A3s from June 1942 to September 1943. In all, about 50,000 were built for the war - and the vast majority of Shermans were built by General Motors and Chrysler. The comparatively rare Ford-built Shermans were equipped with Ford’s 450-horsepower, 18-liter GAA V8 engine - originally a V12 knock-off of Rolls-Royce Merlin and Allison aviation engines that were supposed to be used in American planes. When the Navy turned the Ford V12 down - because they decided to use radial engines - Ford lopped off four cylinders and converted it into a tank engine. I believe the tank used in the movie had a Ford engine, but it was not a battle-scared M4 from the North Africa campaign. So why use (possibly) the wrong tank in a movie that insisted so much on realism and authenticity (okay, other than the men’s haircuts)? Probably because there aren’t many surviving WWII tanks available to today’s filmmakers. The American tanks in the movie - ten were used - were all M4A3E8s and all came from the Bovington Tank Museum in southern England (if you go, “Fury” is the one with serial # T224875) where the movie was principally filmed. The last WWII Tiger tank? That’s also where the filmmakers got the movie’s nearly indestructible German Tiger I tank (a.k.a. “Panzers”) - a relic that was out of production by 1945. But the one at the tank museum is reputed to be the only surviving Tiger 131 tank still in working order. The Tiger was a feared fighting machine, but among the criticisms leveled at it was that it was heavy, cumbersome and over-engineered - you know, just like today’s German cars! (Just kidding. Sort of.) America’s Shermans, to their credit, were considered manueverable, reliable and quick on the draw (like a gunfighter - another relevant comparison). But, the point is - regardless of some of the plot disconnects in Fury - by that time in World War II, Germany had far superior tanks (albeit fewer of them), and could blow most of the American tanks to smithereens. Earlier in the war, it was a much more even fight; but the Germans continued to improve their tanks, while the Americans stupidly did little in that regard. And the tank crews, like those in Fury, paid a terrible price. txt by Jerry Garrett November 1, 2014
I'm afraid there are quite a few inaccuracies in this text. For instance the m2 medium tank never saw combat as it was obsolete before the war even began. The M3 did see service as a stop gap tank until the m4 could be developed. It is possible the tank crew of Fury have been fighting together for a few years, but not in a single tank. They probably have had to get a new tank a few times, but maybe they were all named Fury. Just like Creighton Abrams named all his tanks Thunderbolt. The term "'Easy eight'' refers only to the hvss suspension later versions of the Sherman had. It has nothing to do with the gun. Although the confusion is understandable since many tanks with hvss suspension also had the T23 turret and 76mm gun. But there were also plenty of normal vvs suspension Shermans with the t23 turret and 76mm gun. German tanks were also not masterminded by Porsche, in fact many of his designs never came to fruition and they went with other designs. For example the Porche Tiger was a failure so they went with a more traditional tank design. Not all the American tanks in the movie were easy eights, in fact most were standard 75mm Shermans. Fury itself was represented as an m4a3e8 in the movie, but in real life it's an m4a2e8 with a diesel engine instead of the Ford v8. The last paragraph comes with a lot of caveats. German tanks had more powerful guns and thicker armour than the Sherman by the end of the war, but battlefield analyses show the Shermans were far from defenseless. Quite the opposite in fact. Combat is far more complicated than paper stats of tanks. Analyses show that the tank that managed to shoot first in 90% of cases would win the fight, regardless of if it was an Allied or German tank. By the end of the war the Allies had far better tank crews than the Germans with better training and more combat experience. Most experienced and well trained Germans were dead by that point. Whereas the Allies managed to retain their good tank crews, because the Sherman was very survivable even when hit. I know it has a reputation of being a death trap, but that is a complete myth. The U.S. armored force lost less than 1500 men killed during the entire war out of 50000 personell that served in armored force. This figure includes men who were killed outside of tanks. So in fact tank crews didn't pay a terrible price. For anyone interested I recommend looking for a talk named ''Myths of American armor in ww2'' here on youtube. The man giving the talk is called Nicholas Moran, aka ''the_chieftain.
@@coolamradio Hi!, That's ok. I thought I'd make an informative post for anyone that was interested. I hope it didn't come across as salty. Have a nice day :)
The find you hold at 11:35 appears to be a bearing cap, but it isn't one used on a Merlin engine - so it's not from a Lancaster and is highly unlikely to be from a Spitfire.
@@IronMikeMetaldetecting Hi Mike, no, I'm afraid I don't. The Rolls-Royce bearing caps weren't as plain as that; they weren't as chunky and looked a little more refined.
@@MrJeepmarineSherman's used various engines, including two radial aircraft engines. The design of their cranks is dramatically different because of the way they work, so it won't be from a radial engine. They also used the 'multibank', which was 5 in-line engines arranged around a central shaft, a pretty amazing design! There was a Ford V8 too but I would say the item is too large for one of those.
Finally someone who gets it! You guys have the best seats in the house. Letting me do all the dirty sweaty work and all you have to do is kick your feet up and lift a beer..
Hi Mike! The MG34 bipod was much longer than the MG42 bipod. So I would say its MG34 bipod! :D And 76mm M26 is probably either the fact that its a brass casing or it belongs to the M26 Pershing
I was in New Guinea walking along the beach I was looking to my left a woman that was living along the beach sitting in the chair she had a "live 155 Artillery Hollister" 100% live👀💨 from top to bottom she was using it as a table to put her ashtray&🚬🚬🚬 cigarettes on top on she said it washed up on the beach years later after World War II..She said they wash up off and on this thing was huge... I said how did you get it up to your bungalow and put it in the sand she said I rolled it with my feet... not really sure what year it rolled up on the beach but she's damn lucky she didn't hit nothing hard it would have blown her to pieces and half the town..Unreal💣.To me it's like a ticking time bomb.💣💣💥💥💦💨💥
Please stop Calling artillery ammunition bombs or grenades artillery ammunition is called a shell of for more than one is shells as an ex gunner inthe royal artillery in the British army is makes me shiver when I hear you say grenade or bomb otherwise I love watching what you find
@@IronMikeMetaldetecting do you think it might be a plane that crashed? If so, a family somewhere may be able to finally put to rest one of their own. Great video as always Mike.
I was getting chills watching that, although most large caliber shell fuses are spin armed, just to prevent such a detonation from happening...Those cup shaped things laying beside the fuses are for supplementary charges to be screwed onto the fuses, although I didn't see any of those dug up, thank God...
@@Jreb1865 The problem is, explosives deteriorate in the ground over time and it makes them more dangerous. It is risky at best to assume the safety features of a shell that worked 80 years ago will still work now.