Original U.S. WWII Wood Transit Crate with 12 Dummy Mk 2 Grenades Russian Flare Guns FIELD-RATION MESS-KIT

FIELD-RATION MESS-KIT

This troddel is of black leather strapping with triple stitches of gold

A nearly identical example is located at the Fine Arts Museums of  San Fransisco and can be seen at this link

a Territorial division

On is also missing its carrying strap

Original U.S. WWII Wood Transit Crate with 12 Dummy Mk 2 Grenades Russian Flare Guns FIELD-RATION MESS-KITOriginal Item: Only One Available. Wood crate designed to hold 24 MK11A1 hand grenades. The fragmentation (frag) grenade has a filling of flakes of smokeless powder. The grenade's original version (Mk II) had a filling of TNT, but it was found that the violence of TNT over fragmented the grenade, and the less violent filling of smokeless powder was sufficient to produce an adequate number of lethal fragments. The grenade was detonated by pulling a pin