I`ve just bought a gas mask and steel helmet from a sale and they are labelled as being brought back from the first Gulf War.Looking up on the net it appears the Helmet is an American design (but an East German Manufacture) and the gas mask is also East German/Russian in a webbing carrier.Is this the sort of thing the Iraqi forces were using then or have I been duped ?
By: Blue_2 - 8th March 2010 at 11:04
…brings to mind the old curse, ‘may you have the pox of a thousand camels…etc’ 😀
By: groundhugger - 7th March 2010 at 12:48
I would like to think my Itchy and sweaty 1950’s serge Battledress went to some third world soldier , preferably somewhere hot and sandy so that was even more sweaty and itchy !:diablo:
By: Creaking Door - 6th March 2010 at 17:23
I can’t say for certain about helmets or gas masks but many Iraqi tanks, armoured vehicles and other weapons were of Russian, Chinese or Warsaw Pact design although some were of local manufacture.
By: benyboy - 6th March 2010 at 16:45
Does the gas mask have `5` on it by any chance. I sold mine a few years ago. Green, Russian design, in a webbing bag, had some medical supplys in it, some tubes with Arabic writing on. I bought mine on a carboot near York so have no idea of its authenticity but it did have sand in the webbing bag lol.
Incidently I also sold an American design / East German Helmet, but that went to Brazil of all places.
Ben
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March 6, 2010 at 11:54 am