Description: A nice example of aWorld War Two GermanWehrmacht-issue Field-greyNumbered & 1937-dated CanisterfromThe 1944 Battle of Normandy. Found in the Normandy town of Carentan, (south of the US 'Utah' D-Day Beach),the canister is in a very good 'as found' conditionwith most of its field-grey outer paint remaining,its inner aluminium sleeve in situ,and still bearing its original hand-painted white number243 Missing its shoulder strap, but still in possession ofits main pull-down strap,the internal gas mask lenses lid bears the imprint 1937and though sadly that small inner lid does not seeminglywant to stay shut, this does not detractfrom what is, a cracking Wehrmacht infantryman's canister. Measuring some 10" in height(bearing an unidentified marking painted in red on the lid)and with a pretty fantastic, all-over, paint finish this all makes for a a superb 'barn-find' in France. A cracking piece of surviving personal German field kit from the Allied heavy fighting that took place across Normandy after the June 6th D-Day Landings of 1944 (Colour image courtesy The Tomahawk Films WW-II Archive) Thanks for looking..!
Price: 145 GBP
Location: Winchester, Hampshire
End Time: 2024-11-03T15:57:49.000Z
Shipping Cost: 40.8 GBP
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Issued/ Not-Issued: Issued
Waffen-SS: Wehrmacht
Kriegsmarine: Marineartillerie
The Atlantic Wall: Coastal Artillery
Gold Beach: Juno Beach
D-Day 6th June 1944: Tinchebray
Gas Mask Canister: Gas Mask
Operation Varsity: The Rhine Crossings
Battle for Normandy: St Mere Eglise
Remagen: Russian Front
Bastogne: Pegasus Bridge
Carentan: Caen
Iron Cross: Demjansk
Omaha Beach: Utah Beach
Country/ Organization: Germany
Sword Beach: Battle of the Bulge
Battle of The Bulge: Bastogne
US 82nd Airborne: US 101st Airborne
Service: Army
Modified Item: No
US GI: Nijmegen
Type: Field Gear
Operation Overlord: Operation Market Garden
Conflict: World War II (1939-1945)
Era: 1914-1945
Wehrmacht: Third Reich
Theme: Militaria
The Ardennes: Falaise Gap
Country/Region of Manufacture: Germany
