Original U.S. WWII 1943 Experimental Ethocellulose Plastic Canteen by AICO Category_Snider Rifle Parts Muskets played a dual role

Muskets played a dual role on the battlefield

gun emplacements

[35] The division moved to Udine on 20 May and joined the British Eighth Army in preventing further westward movement of ground forces from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

having never been conditioned or put into use

an expensive feature quickly obsoleted

Original U.S. WWII 1943 Experimental Ethocellulose Plastic Canteen by AICO Category_Snider Rifle Parts Muskets played a dual roleOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is an excellent rare example of an experimental Ethocelulose Canteen which is dated 1943 and marked AICO by the manufacturer. In an effort to manufacture a non metallic a canteen during World War Two, the US government attempted to manufacture a plastic canteen using Dow Chemical's Ethocelulose Plastic. The canteen was manufactured by several government suppliers, of which AICO was one. Canteens started to be