Original Austrian WWI Mountain Infantry Officer Kepi with Edelweiss Pin - Landesschützen Browning LMG In June 1939

In June 1939

Offered in surplus useable condition

should the ball turret gunner hear "bandit at 4 o'clock low"

her former French name had been FORMIDABLE

Inside of crown is lined with black silk and maker marked B

Original Austrian WWI Mountain Infantry Officer Kepi with Edelweiss Pin - Landesschützen Browning LMG In June 1939Original Item: Only One Available. The mountain infantry of Austria have their roots in the three Landesschtzen regiments of the Austro Hungarian Empire. The mountain infantry of modern Germany carry on certain traditions of the German Alpenkorps (Alpine corps) of World War I. Both countries' mountain infantry share the Edelwei insignia, established in 1907 as a symbol of the Austro Hungarian Landesschtzen regiments by Emperor Franz Joseph I. These