Original Italian WWII MVSN Blackshirt Officer’s Brocade Dress Belt with Scarce Square MVSN Buckle Iraq Top of the barrel still

Top of the barrel still has a mostly intact Series IV manufacturer engraving

with a lovely patina from age and use

Original HGU-2/P helmets came with leather oxygen mask attachment tabs in tan leather with three snaps on each (early USN APH-5 helmets had black tabs with only two snaps on each)

The flag of France The flag looks to be made of open woven wool

Medals for next of kin had a central black stripe

Original Italian WWII MVSN Blackshirt Officer’s Brocade Dress Belt with Scarce Square MVSN Buckle Iraq Top of the barrel stillOriginal Item. Only One Available. The Voluntary Militia for National Security (Italian: Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza Nazionale, MVSN), commonly called the Blackshirts (Italian: Camicie Nere, CCNN, singular: Camicia Nera) or squadristi (singular: squadrista), was originally the paramilitary wing of the National Facist Party, known as the Squadrismo, and after 1923 an all volunteer Militia of the Kingdom of Italy under Fascist rule, similar to