Original U.S. WWII M1943 Entrenching Tool Shovel with Canvas Carrier Category_Night Sights - Adjustable harness leather straps

- Adjustable harness leather straps

The five functions are distributed among four components: cock jaw wrench and drift

Hard covers

Please know that this is a VERY limited run

is remarkable in that it was possibly the first example of what today would be called a gun pod

Original U.S. WWII M1943 Entrenching Tool Shovel with Canvas Carrier Category_Night Sights - Adjustable harness leather strapsOriginal Item: One Only. One of scores of items that made life a little easier and safer for the World War II soldier was an improved entrenching tool. Unlike World War I where soldiers spent most of their time at the front in, in World War II the emphasis was on individual shelter and the need to construct hasty foxholes. For that reason, the entrenching tool became an indispensable piece of equipment, as necessary as a weapon in many settings. One