PHOTOS: Cigarettes Save Life! - WWI Cravan "A" Cigarette Tin With The Shot It Stopped Still Inside

Retronaut ^ | circa WWI | Retronaut

[DogByte6RER]

“Arthur Mann joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1914. His daughter-in-law says he was shot down by the Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen – Arthur’s parachute caught in a tree. He also fought in the trenches – when Arthur was shot, the bullet bounced off this tin and saved his life. He also survived gassing, but this experience badly affected his long-term health. He died in 1953″

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[DogByte6RER]

Proof positive that cigarettes CAN save lives.

[DogByte6RER]

[skeeter]

Where the Germans using shotguns in WWI?

[One Name]

Ya that’s like a 3 or 4 ought buck.

Looks bigger than 00 (.32-33)

[ClaytonP]

Where the Germans using shotguns in WWI?

My first thought was a musket ball. I don't think those were in use.

Perhaps the bullet deformed like that?

[EricT.]

I’ve recently started downloading and listening to old time radio shows during my long drives on the job. I’m getting a big kick listening to “Rick Diamond, P.I.” and the Camel cigarette ads. I wonder if my doctor really does smoke Camels?

[ClearCase_guy]

[ClearCase_guy]

[Celtic Conservative]

probably "canister shot" , large scale anti-personnel rounds fired from cannons. Filled with multiple projectiles like shotgun shells, but larger.

CC

[9422WMR]

In WWI the Germans were using the 7.92 FMJ round. Called 8mm.
It would have punched right through that tin cigarette box, and the guy carrying it.
The German 9mm Luger pistol would also have punched through the can.
Maybe sgt York opened up on the guy with a model 97 pump loaded with OO buck at 60 yds.
That would make those images seem reasonable.

[One Name]

8mm mauser and older Steyr rounds would have blown thru that tin.

Don’t know the scale of the tin but it could be OO were lookin at.

Buddy has a trench gun lacking a few parts; the 1897 changed the trench war- I heard the germans wanted them outlawed because they were so effective in the hands of the Yanks.

[Nik Naym]

I’m thinking this story has more holes in it than that cigarette tin.

[Octar]

That’s good.I wonder if Craven Moorehead is related to Wilma Dikfit.

[tsowellfan]

Beverly Hillbillies - Winston Cigarettes Ad

http://youtu.be/xEx44ETP8Ac

[Liberty Valance]

lol!

[Charles Martel]

probably "canister shot" , large scale anti-personnel rounds fired from cannons. Filled with multiple projectiles like shotgun shells, but larger.

It could also be a piece of shrapnel from a bursting shell. Many of those used round shot .

[Rockpile]

The tin may date from when Mann was a grunt prior to joining the RFC.

[Joined2Justify]

They packed them a lot tighter in those days?

[riverrunner]

If it was sopped by the tin box even filled with cigarettes it was most likely nearly spent any way and most likely wouldn’t have caused a fatal wound.

[a fool in paradise]

The AMA is going to suppress this statistic.