Original U.S. WWII Marine Corps Trench Art Decorated BOFORS 40mm Mk1 Inert Shell - dated 1943 & 1944 Russian Antique Guns It also still retains the

It also still retains the original stock cartouches

The "4" in the date is actually upside down

Men of the unit collapsed in dozens from sunstroke

Two straps containing the microphone contacts were linked by an inverted “T” shaped leather envelope at the nape of the helmet

but ceased to concentrate on the paratrooper style shells

Original U.S. WWII Marine Corps Trench Art Decorated BOFORS 40mm Mk1 Inert Shell - dated 1943 & 1944 Russian Antique Guns It also still retains theOriginal Item: One of a kind. This is a fantastic piece of Second World War trench art. This started out as a U. S. 4 1943 dated 40MM MK1 round for the British Bofors 40 mm gun, known to the U. S. Marine Corps as the 40 mm Automatic Gun M1. It was then polished up, fitted with a dummy warhead, and decorated with a Marine Corps EGA Cap badge, as well as the date 1944 in large copper letters. The back of the shell has four copper stars attached to it.