Original U.S. WWII Paratrooper Gas Detection Brassard Marked Dated March 1944 by JL&S Scandinavian Militaria The jacket is heavy wool

The jacket is heavy wool in OD green

probably Dutch Mercenary

with a nickel collar inscribed in German script

On April 8

Original U.S. WWII Paratrooper Gas Detection Brassard Marked Dated March 1944 by JL&S Scandinavian Militaria The jacket is heavy woolOriginal 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