30.06 Cartridge Found at Hawaiian Site

[Edelweisse]

Hi Folks:  While vacationing in Hawaii….we visited a Hawaiian site on the west shore and while we sat and watched the sun go down….my daughter discovered a rifle cartridge.  I noticed that it was a 30.06 and I found “32” and an “F”.  When we got back to our rental, I soaked the round in vinegar and cleaned the cartridge and found “FA” for Frankfort Arsenal and “32”….why would that cartridge be there?  Ceremony??? WWII event?

[Salvage Sailor]

Constant small arms gunnery exercises on the Westside of Oahu in the 1920's - 1930's.  The Companies would encamp at Haleiwa, Nanakuli, Waianae, Makaha, etc., and blast away at targets off of the shoreline.

 

Photos from my Pineapple Army collection from various units:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Edelweisse]

WOW……thank you for this info ….we’ve heard about this side of the island being used as a training range….but seeing the pictures…says a lot.  Thank you!  

[Edelweisse]

Found a US carbine shell dated “43” on another western shore beach on Oahu

[mikie]

2 hours ago, Edelweisse said:

Found a US carbine shell dated “43” on another western shore beach on Oahu

Neat find! Is it being held by octopus tentacles? 😁
mikie

[Edelweisse]

Cute….but it is being held between beach shoes…since I am in Hawaii right now.

[Edelweisse]

LC Lake City Ordnance Plant

[Salvage Sailor]

 

8th Field Artillery, Battery C, Waianae Range 1935 & 1936

 

[Edelweisse]

When back. To the same beach with my new metal detector…and found some coins (1990s thru present). and also three (3) more spent carbine rounds in the same area.

[30thguy]

I was stationed in Hawaii in the 70's . We were camping out on beach and dug a hole for fire pit and dug up the remains of a case of 30-06 ammo in bandoliers and clips

Rusty and crumbling ,but thank goodness we didn't build fire on top of it.

[Story]

That unit-stenciled ammo box is interesting.

[silverplate]

Fascinating post. Love the pre-war photos. Never hear much about the military presence in Hawaii prior to Pearl Harbor. 

[ccyooper]

One of those cartridge casings could have come out of this old red stripe Denver Ordnance crate shipped the the Naval Depot  on Oahu. 

[Salvage Sailor]

US Naval Ammunition Depot Oahu, Territory of Hawaii (NAD OAHU TH)

 

 

 

 

 

[RG 67]

My wife's grandfather was in the Navy during and for a short while after WW2. He of course was a child of the depression era, so it pained him greatly to help dump entire pallets of shotgun ammo overboard  "somewhere between California and Alaska".