Original British WWII Royal Air Force and Ground Forces Map Lot - 6 Maps Snider Rifles & Bayonets The Type 99 hand grenade

The Type 99 hand grenade could either be thrown by hand or fired from a Type 100 grenade discharger

as well as other items

The most interesting features of this flag are the 30+ signatures of USGIs who were all members of the same infantry rifle squad they read as follows (names in bold are unique and identically matched in the WW2 archive registry

They are marked 8 × 6° and NIKKO / No

The interior of the helmet still has the original early war 1938 dated aluminum band M31 leather liner with all eight of its fingers intact and is stamped as a size 58

Original British WWII Royal Air Force and Ground Forces Map Lot - 6 Maps Snider Rifles & Bayonets The Type 99 hand grenadeOriginal Items: Only One Lot of 6 Available. For operations which demanded co operation between both ground and air forces, it was essential that both branches of the military use the same map. This helped facilitate planning, briefing, and inter communication, as well as ensuring a common basis for referencing map coordinates. Maps used for such operations, therefore, had to meet the needs of all parties involved. The Royal Air Force (R. A. F.)