75mm something?

[DEADLINE222]

It is 75mm and weighs 12 pounds or so.

It is 11 -1/16" tall.

The rotating band is 7/16" wide.

It has a hole for a base fuze that is 1.500" wide, but lacks threading.

It has some very warn stampings on it that I have done my best to highlight in the image.

The drawings I did were as if the projectile was standing upright, where the image is laying down; of course.

Also present are three, evenly spaced, threaded holes around the circumference of the body, but I will assume this would be attributed to a former trencharting.

The qestion is: If it is an unfinished example, would they have stamped it's nomenclature before and attached the rotaing band before completion of the machining?

I have not the slightest idea. Educate me.

 

[HAZORD]

I'm thinking it is part of a drill round. It doesn't fit the design of any service projectile of the time. It doesn't have a crimping groove. It is near the profile of an early WWII Mk I AA projectile, but it would have a nose fuze if it were that projectile, therefore a drill projectile for that round.

 

[HAZORD]

There is also a chance that it is a drill projectile for the French 75mm field gun used by the U.S. That projo would also have had a nose fuze.