WWII Japanese Airplane Part...What is it?

[Ed Hicks]

WWII Japanese Airplane Part...What is it? What type plane? Cut and made into bookends.

Thanks for looking. Ed

[Ed Hicks]

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[beretta1934]

Well it's pretty obvious that it's the base of a propeller blade. You should post a photo that shows the engraved message at the top clearly. It should have stampings and numbers around the base ring that could help solve the question of "what it came from". Would help if you also stated the base diameter.

It is NOT an A6M series (Zero) because they had a variable pitch propeller and that requires a steel ,externally splined, gear ring pressed unto the base and this has none of that.

I'll not even attempt a guess until I hear back about the possible stampings/markings and base diameter.

[Staldion]

From the OP picture I Can read "Saved from a Japanese plane shot down at Pearl Harbor Dec 7, 1941.", Thé other piece have something engraved too, maybe a name, rank, I can only read "Navy" on that part.

[Ed Hicks]

[QUOTE=beretta1934;7961667]Well it's pretty obvious that it's the base of a propeller blade. You should post a photo that shows the engraved message at the top clearly. It should have stampings and numbers around the base ring that could help solve the question of "what it came from". Would help if you also stated the base diameter.

It is NOT an A6M series (Zero) because they had a variable pitch propeller and that requires a steel ,externally splined, gear ring pressed unto the base and this has none of that.

Well, I can honestly say it wasn't obvious to me! For all I know about planes it could be a right rear rubilator prop wash pump.

[BruceP]

[QUOTE=Ed Hicks;7962259]

Well it's pretty obvious that it's the base of a propeller blade. You should post a photo that shows the engraved message at the top clearly. It should have stampings and numbers around the base ring that could help solve the question of "what it came from". Would help if you also stated the base diameter.

It is NOT an A6M series (Zero) because they had a variable pitch propeller and that requires a steel ,externally splined, gear ring pressed unto the base and this has none of that.

Well, I can honestly say it wasn't obvious to me! For all I know about planes it could be a right rear rubilator prop wash pump.

HA! Ed you were way ahead of me! I was going for an excalibrating piston!

[beretta1934]

Ed, My first thought was a Flux Capacitor but "Back to the Future" was not a movie in WWII - but then again if you time travel -who knows what could happen

When you get the chance please look it over for any markings. Also the diameter. Whoever cut it is half did a nice job of keeping it straight and true. They also polished the cut halves very smooth. i hope they didn't polish the outside also and perhaps buff out any markings.

[Ed Hicks]

There are no markings other than the engraved presentation.

[Ed Hicks]

The engraving

[beretta1934]

Ed, any paper work with this item

[Geof]

Interestingly there's a Bosun Charles M.Lewis listed on the 1936 roll for the USS Kanawha, an oiler on the San Diego-Pearl-Wake Island run. Wonder if it's the same guy. He would be at Mare Island on the day of the attack, but back in Pearl in March sometime.

[Wood]

If it is Pearl harbour period, and Japanese and not a "Zero", then it must be a Aichi D3A1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aichi_D3A

Pegards,
Pete

[Geof]

There were Nakajima B5N Kates there as well right?

[blinky]

There were Nakajima B5N Kates there as well right?

Yes, and five were lost.

[Ed Hicks]

Ed, any paper work with this item

No paperwork, just handed down through a local family with no written history, but what a real piece of history!