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Old 28th March 2013, 14:31
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Re: Help to solve the real identity off me109 at sola aviation museum

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Originally Posted by eknutson View Post
I found this picture at airrecce.co.uk. It shows Rb12,5 in different situations. The left one is a possible solution, or 2 standard. One camera front and one in aft hatch. I have also got a picture off the 20mm shells, showing date 1942. Now the question is, how long storage time had the ammonution. As there seems to be no indication on the production month, Can we say this was used up at latest mars april 1943.

No...you can still find complete, unused rounds dated 1941 from old storage. So 1942 dated rounds could have been used to the end of the war.

Mike
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