Japanese brass/pearl harbor

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Japanese brass/pearl harbor

Post by rich42gpw » Fri Mar 16, 2018 7:24 pm

This is a strange questions but I was at a friends house today, he is an old vet. He had on his shelf some old fired brass, 20mm looks to be. However, not US military because no head stamp. I asked him about it, he said he was diving in Pearl Harbor in the early 80s and found it. I was surprised, could it be from the Pearl Harbor attack? I can't imagine our Navy would fire live or even blanks in Pearl? Its old, tarnished, but measures 20mm.

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Re: Japanese brass/pearl harbor

Post by Radtech » Fri Mar 16, 2018 8:12 pm

That has to be an extremely rare piece if it is from Pearl Harbor as the A6M Zero's had 20mm wing cannons.

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Re: Japanese brass/pearl harbor

Post by Quest Master » Sat Mar 17, 2018 4:10 pm

Most Pacific Fleet ships stopped by Pearl on their way home, with lots of Service Members with Japanese souvenirs. Anything can fall overboard. December 7th 1941 relic perhaps...but tough to link it to that date specifically.
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Post by GI. » Sat Mar 17, 2018 4:28 pm

The Japanese only used the 20mm HO-5 cannon in their fighter's during the late war years.
The Japanese 20mm ammo. had head stamp's.
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Post by RCASSIN » Sun Mar 18, 2018 5:50 am

The other problem is that Pearl Harbor is protected today like it should of been in 1941. All kinds of rules/reg/laws being violated to dive there without a special permit which is almost impossible to get even in the 1970s, 1980s. Maybe this find was outside the harbor?
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Re: Japanese brass/pearl harbor

Post by rich42gpw » Tue Apr 23, 2019 8:48 am

This brass is old, and the diver was military and it was for sure in the harbor.
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Post by GI. » Tue Apr 23, 2019 10:04 am

rich42gpw wrote:
Tue Apr 23, 2019 8:48 am
This brass is old, and the diver was military and it was for sure in the harbor.
OP over a year now, and still no pic's. :roll:
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Post by Mark Tombleson » Tue Apr 23, 2019 11:12 am

I don’t think there will be photos. :shock:

Kind of cool story though! :wink:
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Re: Japanese brass/pearl harbor

Post by rich42gpw » Tue Jul 02, 2019 2:27 pm

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Not sure if you can open these for scale the brass is placed with a loaded 50cal, and a loaded US 20 MM
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