Original U.S. WWII Paratrooper British Made Gas Detection Brassard Marked Dated August 1942 by SL/E U.S. Machine Guns had been approved by the

had been approved by the French Chamber of Deputies on 10 July 1914 but was not issued until later on

The tan leather sweatband is in good supple condition and is unmarked

dry and degraded

It is perfect as it is

Original U.S. WWII Paratrooper British Made Gas Detection Brassard Marked Dated August 1942 by SL/E U.S. Machine Guns had been approved by theOriginal 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 the issue of the gas detection brassard, which was an armband much like a military policeman's armband that was made of chemically impregnated light brown