A rare example of an early
World War Two
US Airborne
M1923 Garand Webbing Bandolier
Dated 1941
In a great surviving condition and
produced by US Webbing manufacturer and stamped
R M Co Ltd
1941
this is a cracking original item of
WW-II US Airborne-related personal kit.
As with several of our other Airborne-related offerings,
it has been in the same West Country house-hold
close by a combined 1943-45
US 82nd and 101st Airborne
and
British Airborne & Paratrooper Training base
(and traded to the farmer next door in exchange for fresh milk, cheese & eggs etc)
that was established in the build-up to
D-Day June 6th 1944
and the later famous jumps at
Arnhem in Holland
and
The Rhine Crossings in 1945.