Little relics found in old military vehicles

You never quite know what you are going to find when you look inside a sixty year old vehicle. While prepping the M55 Self-Propelled Howitzer for paint, a restorer found this primer shell (left) tossed into a mechanical bay decades before. The little “bullet” helps set off the powder in the gun breech. The explosion pushes the big projectile out the gun’s 8-inch diameter barrel. The other discovery is a bit more odd. The FHC’s T-34 came from the Czech Republic. While cleaning the tracks, stuffed with European mud and grass, out fell this slightly smashed 10 haléřů coin! Somewhere, some time, the tank’s burly tracks picked up the coin during its travels. Today, both unusual pieces are tagged and bagged and reside in the FHC archives.