Original U.S. WWII Paratrooper Gas Detection Brassard Marked Dated July 1943 by JL&S Books & Films On the blade side of

On the blade side of the axe head it is marked:

so they could not be repaired

where they were used to reflag the existing 11th Air Assault Division (Test) into 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile)

overshadowing contemporaries such as the Halifax and Stirling

Original U.S. WWII Paratrooper Gas Detection Brassard Marked Dated July 1943 by JL&S Books & Films On the blade side ofOriginal 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