Original U.S. WWII Army Airborne T-5 Main & Reserve Parachute Packs with Rigging - Dated 1943 & 1944 Snider Rifle The latch for the top

The latch for the top cover is also marked "clc" for Herder

and looks to have seen quite a bit of use

It is fabricated from steel painted black and is retained very well

Probably German WW1 issue or Finnish manufacture

This is definitely a helmet that was worn

Original U.S. WWII Army Airborne T-5 Main & Reserve Parachute Packs with Rigging - Dated 1943 & 1944 Snider Rifle The latch for the topOriginal Item: Only One Available. The T 5 parachute was standardized in June 1941 and many of these first pattern chutes were heavily employed in all theaters of action. They saw extensive use in training, the early airborne operations in North Africa & Sicily, as well as the daylight drop of Operation Dragoon in Southern France. White T 5's remained standard throughout the war in the Pacific theater of operations such as Nadzab, Noemfoor, and