Recently the bullet above was found by a treasure hunter. As you can see it was no ordinary bullet in that in contained not gun powder but a secret message. The message was written in code so the finder posted a picture to a World War II forum and received an answer…
My grandfather served in Italy, I inherited all of his military gear. He saved all of his daily code books, so looked it up. Here is the message:
QM is code for the officer that was tasked with coordinating forces for a particular engagement. This is an engagement status letter that is addressed to that officer.
The (6) 5 letter codes read as follows, from left to right, top to bottom:
THEY – THROW – GRENADES – WE – PULL – PINS – AND – THROW – BACK
The final code at the bottom is a phrase:
NOTIFY REINFORCEMENTS STAND DOWN – NOT NEEDED
Could this be some kind of joke that was never delivered? Apparently not. The Nazis were throwing grenades that weren’t armed until the Allied forces armed and then threw them back at the Nazis.
As Paul Harvey used to say, “And now for the rest of the story.”
Source: Sploid.
