Original U.S. WWII Paratrooper Gas Detection Brassard Marked Dated July 1943 by JL&S Japanese Edged Weapons Year of Manufacture: circa 1865

Year of Manufacture: circa 1865

as the cameras of the age took quite long to expose

this piece measures a "normal"

but CRAVEN is clearly legible

Civil War era Union SIX POUND Field Gun

Original U.S. WWII Paratrooper Gas Detection Brassard Marked Dated July 1943 by JL&S Japanese Edged Weapons Year of Manufacture: circa 1865Original Item: Only One Available. For the Normandy invasion, American troops were provided with a variety of chemical warfare equipment, as it was still unknown whether AH would employ poison gas on the battlefield in an effort to prevent the breaching of the Atlantic Wall. One measure taken was that all Allied invasion clothing was saturated with CC 2, an oily, smelly gas repellent that made GI uniforms stiff and uncomfortable (scenes of GIs boiling