Original WWII U.S. Army Wooden Shotgun T3ABD 12 Gauge No.00 Buckshot M1917 Ammunition Crate - Dated 1944 Sharps Rifle Robert Langley and Roger Livermore

Robert Langley and Roger Livermore

Liner size is approximately 58cm / 7 1/4

the 79th group itself did not begin operations until March 1943

This example still has the original blade profile intact

we assume it must be original production

Original WWII U.S. Army Wooden Shotgun T3ABD 12 Gauge No.00 Buckshot M1917 Ammunition Crate - Dated 1944 Sharps Rifle Robert Langley and Roger LivermoreOriginal Item: Only One Available. The M1917 Ammunition Packing Box was a wooden box designed to be reused. The lid was secured by tightening brass wingnuts over threaded metal posts in the walls of the chest. They were meant to be carried by means of handles milled into the ends of the chest; troops assigned to carry ammo found them hard to grasp. Ammunition was shipped in boxes with a hermetically sealed terneplate lining that had the top soldered