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here is a cool little item. navy 1944 date dummy practice round. kind of tough to find the real deal defused so this is the next best thing. blue tipped head and marked dummy on the casing.

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I have one but the projectile is just a machined piece of steel with basically the correct shape. You always see the gun crew dropping those 4 or 5 round clips into the feeder at the top of the pom pom guns. I'd guess they were pretty heavy... (but under the circumstances I'm sure you wanted to get as many rounds as possible into those guns).

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here is a cool little item. navy 1944 date dummy practice round. kind of tough to find the real deal defused so this is the next best thing. blue tipped head and marked dummy on the casing.

You have a keeper. Reason, the projo appears to be factory crimped. The vast majority are fired cases with a period projo stuck in it, no crimp. Collectors prefer original factory crimped, if available, much harder to find. Unscrew the nose fuze, look down into the base, do you see a hole? If so, it is a tracer or hard to find self destruct model. Nice find.

....the blue color indicates a TP ( target practice round), they were made to fire but had no HE filler in them.

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