Original U.S. WWII Paratrooper D-Day Invasion American Flag Armband Category_MG 42 Display Guns & Part Sets It flew its first combat

It flew its first combat mission on 24 December 1943 against a V-1 flying bomb launch site near Saint-Omer in Northern France

The sweatband is quite worn

To protect the bridge against aircraft

they asked permission to leave their posts

and then then were used in the new long-lever Martini-Henry rifle

Original U.S. WWII Paratrooper D-Day Invasion American Flag Armband Category_MG 42 Display Guns & Part Sets It flew its first combatOriginal Item: Only One Available. An very good condition rare Airborne Paratrooper Flag Armband. This type of armband was typically used by U. S. Paratroopers for example in North Africa (1942), during the D Day invasion in Normandy (June 1944) and during Operation Market Garden (September 1944). The armband was typically fixed to the uniform jacket arm with a safety pin. This is the third type of Arm flag which was printed as an armband on a kind of