Original U.S. WWII 8th Air Force Painted B-3 style Sheepskin Jacket Martini-Henry Bayonets All of the helmet’s furniture

All of the helmet’s furniture is highly-detailed gilt brass

This fusil with a

Fully described on Pages 232-233 of David Harding's Small Arms of the East India Company 1600-1856

The gun was an adaptation of a French Hotchkiss

ORIGINAL ITEM: "Ball" replacement scabbards for German WWI Ersatz 12" blade bayonets

Original U.S. WWII 8th Air Force Painted B-3 style Sheepskin Jacket Martini-Henry Bayonets All of the helmet’s furnitureOriginal Item: One of a kind. Members of the 8th Air Force bomb crews during WWII generally preferred B 3 Sheepskin jackets over A 2 leather jackets due to their extreme warmth. With a loss of 3 degrees fahrenheit for every thousand feet of altitude, the WWII bomber crews flying at 30,000 feet in the middle of winter needed a seriously warm coat. The B 3 Bomber Jacket came through. First issued on May 8, 1931, for open cockpit altitude flying, the B 3