Relic WW2 ordnance at Kiska - images
photos by ILJ unless indicated otherwise (please see AMNWR's safety notice at the end of this document)
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US M1 Garand rifle en bloc clip with eight 0.30-06 Springfield rounds (link)
US M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle box magazine with 20 0.30-06 Springfield rounds (link)
Next four images: ammunition for the Japanese 7.7 mm Arisaka Type 99 rifle (link)
Next six images: ammunition for the Japanese 7.7 mm Type 92 heavy machine gun ('Woodpecker') (link)
Next three images: curved detachable 30 round box magazine for the Japanese 7.7 mm Type 99 light machine gun ('Nambu') (link)
Next four images: ammunition for the US M1919 Browning 0.30 cal. machine gun (link)
Next four images: ammunition for the US M2 Browning 0.50 cal. machine gun (link)
US ANM2 Browning 0.50 cal. aircraft machine gun and loose rounds in aircraft wreckage (link)
loose ammunition for the Japanese Model 1942 13 mm anti-aircraft machine gun (at least 14 twin-barrel and 4 single barrel mounts of this type were in use at Kiska)
spent cartrige cases from the Japanese Model Type 98 20 mm anti-aircraft cannon (link) (at least 11 single barrel mounts of this type were in use at Kiska during 1942-43) (no live rounds found)
Cache of Japanese 50 mm mortar projectiles (Model 89 1929 'Knee Mortar') (link) and grenades (Type 91 1931) (link)
Japanese 50 mm mortar projectile (Model 89 1929 'Knee Mortar') with type 88 small artillery fuse (link)
Next four images: Japanese Type 100 HE Mortar projectiles with Type 100 selectable impact fuze, used with the Type 97 (1937) and Type 99 small trench mortars (link)
Japanese hand grenade (Type 91 1931) (all found heavily corroded) (link)
Commonwealth (Canadian Army) hand grenade ('Mill's Bomb') (link)
Next four images: U.S. Army Mk. 2 hand grenade ('pineapple') (link)
U.S. M15 hand grenade White Phosphorus ("Willy Pete") (corroded) (link)
next two - US 100 pound demolition bomb - 12,222 of these were dropped on Kiska during 1942-42 (link)
next three images - US 500 pound demolition bomb - 6,623 of these were dropped on Kiska during 1942-42 (link)
Spent Japanese Type 96 25 mm anti-aircraft gun projectile (link)
Unidentified 37 mm projectile
Next seven images: projectiles and complete rounds for the Japanese Type 41 75 mm mountain gun (link)
Japanese Type 88 75 mm anti-aircraft gun projectile (link)
Unidentified 75 mm projectile
Unidentified 120 mm projectile
Projectile for the Japanese 120 mm coastal defense gun
Unidentified 150 mm projectile
Unexploded US Navy 6" projectile (3,534 of these were fired at Kiska and Little Kiska Islands from US warships on August 7, 1942, more on July 22, 1943)
Next four images: Japanese (?) bangalore torpedoes (link)
Next two images: Japanese (?) box charges
Japanese improvised explosive device (AP land mine on a wire stake) photo by Brendan Coyle
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