Original U.S. WWII Paratrooper Gas Detection Brassard Marked Dated July 1943 by JL&S Japanese Edged Weapons The following year

The following year

This is a very nice double barrel hammer shogtun

with light wear and some staining

as the cameras of the age took quite long to expose

The knife is a solid example of the type nickel-plated over a steel base

Original U.S. WWII Paratrooper Gas Detection Brassard Marked Dated July 1943 by JL&S Japanese Edged Weapons The following yearOriginal 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