Original German WWII M31 Aluminum Mess Kit Kochgeschirr with Leather Strap - Dated 1941 Snider Rifle Parts D-Day found them bombing coastal

D-Day found them bombing coastal defenses along the Cherbourg peninsula

Carl Zeiss introduced a new and unusual type of prism binocular

Aluminum was an "Air Age" material

Military trumpet through WWII

but unfortunately the last number cannot be read

Original German WWII M31 Aluminum Mess Kit Kochgeschirr with Leather Strap - Dated 1941 Snider Rifle Parts D-Day found them bombing coastalOriginal Item: Only one available. This is a very nice late war example of a German Mess Tin M31 or Kochgeschirr Modell 1931 (cooking pot Model 31). A scaled down version of the earlier M1910, it is a kidney shaped cooking pot with a total capacity of 1. 7 liters. It consists of 2 parts: the pot with the wire handle, and a cover with a handle to use as a plate. Early in the war, these were made entirely from aluminum. As the war progressed, they moved