Original U.S. WWI Named USMC Painted M1917 Gas Mask Carrier With Eagle, Globe and Anchor - Camp Lee Detachment 106th Infantry Regiment, 27th Infantry Division Hotchkiss .303 On the front is a

On the front is a cypher helmet plate with the Prussian Motto MIT GOTT FÜR KÖNIG UND VATERLAND (With God for King and Country

undamaged and no cracks in the leather

By the time WWII came along

Both hanger rings are in very good shape

Original U.S. WWI Named USMC Painted M1917 Gas Mask Carrier With Eagle, Globe and Anchor - Camp Lee Detachment 106th Infantry Regiment, 27th Infantry Division Hotchkiss .303 On the front is aOriginal Item: One Of A Kind. Entering into the First World War, the United States had no domestically manufactured gas mask to issue to soldiers. Instead the US Army had to rely on foreign manufactured and designed masks such as the French M2, British PH Helmet, British Small Box Respirator, and the French Appareil Respiratoire Tissot. The United States' government wanted something domestically engineered, and manufactured. This led to the Department