Trying to confirm ID on old ammo.

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Two separate cases, one is your typical glass Bayer aspirin bottle (that thing looks OLD) that mom gave me last week, she got it from my grandfather and figured I'd make better use of it than she would, the thing was full of BB's, upon closer inspection I found 2 rather small rimfire cartridges buried in there. They look like .22 caliber, but the cases are about 1/3 shorter than a "standard" 22LR round, headtamps is a D. I figure these must be either .22 shorts or maybe CB caps of one form or another. Any ideas ?

2nd case is a gift from an old friend of mine who was an air cadet in the late 40's, They apparently had the chance to fire off a few rounds from a machine gun and he kept a little "souvenir" consisting of 4 rounds on links.

markings on the links (in order)

P B
B 1
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P B
B 1
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JP (Actually more like a P with a hook at the bottom of it, it's really a single character)
B I
19
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JP
B I
20
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JP
B I
13
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Cartridges (again, in order)
All the bullets are made of some kind of white metal (steel or aluminium ?)

green tip
1941
DC
G
IV
Z
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2nd cartridge similar to the 1st
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red tip
1942
V I I
D A C (looks like the C has a "broad arrow" in it)
red primer
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4th round similar to the 3rd.

Any ideas ?
 
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The rimfires definitely sound like 22 Longs, and the 303s appear to be all Canadian-produced (Dominion) tracers; "G" was the UK headstamp code for tracer, but they dropped it partway through the war and went to all colour-code IDs. The green code is confusing, though; green was used as a code for AP rounds, and I've got several Lend-Lease AP 50 BMG rounds made for the UK that are marked with a green tip.
 
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