Original U.S. WWII Camouflage Auxiliary “Pilot Chute” Parachute with Rigging & Navy Marking - Dated March 1943 Category_MG 34 Display Guns & Part Sets This helmet is stamped 566A

This helmet is stamped 566A

began an offensive that ended only with the Armistice

75th Infantry Regiment of the Wehrmacht

and no longer shows any of the case hardening or bluing it originally had

where Winston Churchill (then an officer of the 4th Hussars)

Original U.S. WWII Camouflage Auxiliary “Pilot Chute” Parachute with Rigging & Navy Marking - Dated March 1943 Category_MG 34 Display Guns & Part Sets This helmet is stamped 566AOriginal Item. Only One Available. This is a lovely small parachute often called a Pilot Chute that was designed to open upon activation of the main chute to drag the main chute out and away to be opened. The chute retains its markings: PART NO. AN69310 HAYES MFG. CORP. DATE MAR 1943 (US ANCHOR) It retains most of its rigging and is in great shape overall. The first pilot chute we have offered, ready for further research and display.