Backpacks are so useful, so uniquely functional, that most of us assume they’ve been around forever. We picture hunter gatherers with some kind of wicker basket over the shoulder and it makes sense. A ...
Attached to this “web belt” were a first aid pouch and the M1910 aluminum water bottle (canteen) with its own cup that together was fitted into a fabric carrier lined with felt for coolness. The belt ...
Here’s What You Need to Know: When it came to equipment and accouterments in World War I, Americans led the way. When America entered the Great War (World War I) in the spring of 1917 its small army ...