Original U.S. Early WWII M1A2 Service Gas Mask with MIXA1 Filter and MIVA1 Gas Mask Bag Japanese Army Blade: 25" x 2"

Blade: 25" x 2"

It is tasked with special operations in wartime

exquisite Baroque decoration

this is fantastically hard to find

Some prefer the interpretation given by Konrad Knirim (http://www

Original U.S. Early WWII M1A2 Service Gas Mask with MIXA1 Filter and MIVA1 Gas Mask Bag Japanese Army Blade: 25" x 2"Original Item: Only One Available. This is a very nice example of the first type of gas mask that the United States fielded in WWII. The M1 Design had first come about in 1921 as an improvement of the M1919 gas mask, developed at the end of WWI. It then went through several improvements, with the M1A2 being introduced in 1934, and remaining the standard U. S. Gas mask into the early years of WWII. This example has the correct U. S. U marking on the