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An update for those who are interested: It is definitely an M2HB Browning 0.5 (see the picture below) The length of the barrel is usually 45 inches, only the aircraft version is shorter because it does not need to be cooled that much. It is 36 inches which is 914mm. If you subtract around 2cm...

@ evan I measured the inner diameter of the muzzle to a little less than 14 mm - so this should be 0.50 - right? I agree with PB about the muzzle whereas I do not think that it was a US plane. Unless the British AF used US planes in the years 1939 and 1940. Are there so many planes which...

Hello everybody, my father recently found a barrel of a gun in the mud near the place where he lives. The location is 4 miles south-east of St. Peter-Ording which is a famous city for beach vacations in Germany at the north sea, around 80 miles north west of Hamburg. He says he was told the...