Original U.S. WWII Paratrooper Gas Detection Brassard Marked Dated July 1943 by JL&S Japanese Edged Weapons - Medal Ribbon Bar with

- Medal Ribbon Bar with Asiatic–Pacific Campaign Medal with Two Battle Stars

Year of Manufacture: circa 1865

Civil War era Union SIX POUND Field Gun

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Original U.S. WWII Paratrooper Gas Detection Brassard Marked Dated July 1943 by JL&S Japanese Edged Weapons - Medal Ribbon Bar withOriginal 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