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INERT DEACTIVATED. German, WW2, 1945 Dated, 20mm Soluthern (20x138B) (Flak 30 & 38) High Explosive/Trace (HE/T) Round. - O 1937 INERT DEACTIVATED. This is an unfired 1945 dated, WW2 German 20mm High Explosive/Trace (HE/T) round for the German 2cm Flak 30 and 38 anti-aircraft guns. Although these guns were originally used as anti-aircraft guns, they could be used to great effect in close support ground fire. The round has a brown lacquered steel percussion primed cartridge case. The brass percussion primer is unfired and has a red annulus. The round is headstamped eey (Metallwarenfabrik Treuenbrietzen GmbH, Roederhof plant) 45 (1945 date) 239 W and a waffenampt. The high explosive tracer projectile retains much of its original yellow painted finish with a 6mm wide red band above the copper driving band signifying a tracer round. The projectile is stencilled in red round its circumference ?? 13 . The projectile is fitted with an alloy AZ49 nose fuse which is stamped rund its circumference AZ49 wa (Hasag, Hugo Schneider AG, Abteilung Lampenfabrik, Leipzig) 43 11 99 A10 . See Hogg, German artillery of World War Two, pages 144 – 148. The price includes UK delivery and no licence is required to retain this inert round in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. O 1937 £195.00
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