Original U.S. WWII US Army Signal Corps EE-8-B Field Telephone With Leather Case Restoration Materials and the leather is stiff

and the leather is stiff due to age and weathering

This is a very high quality non-firing reproduction

Wounded in action: 3

in this case marked TRUITT BROS & CO

The loop on the back of the pouch contained two male press-studs

Original U.S. WWII US Army Signal Corps EE-8-B Field Telephone With Leather Case Restoration Materials and the leather is stiffOriginal Items: Very Few Available. The EE 8 field telephone was used by the US Military from 1935 into the Vietnam War. It used a wired line with a maximum transmission distance of 7 miles. The EE 8 uses D cell batteries to power the electric signal that carries the signal through the wire to the other phone. It has a hand cranked dynamo to generate the charge that rings the phone on the other end of the line. The case is leather, with fabric