Wehrmacht waterproof gas cape pouch found by US soldier
- Date
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found:
after 1943 June-1945
manufacture: 1942
- Geography
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manufacture:
Germany
- Classification
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Containers
- Category
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Bags
- Object Type
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Pouches (Containers) (lcsh)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Roberta E. Hunkler
German gas cape pouch found by Sergeant Walter E. Hunkler, medical technician, 160th Field Artillery Battalion, 45th Infantry Division, known as the Thunderbirds, from June 1943 to September 1945. The pouch was worn on a German soldier’s chest, attached to gas mask pouch shoulder strap. Walter may have used it to hold binoculars. In July 1943, Walter entered combat in Sicily and then advanced with his unit through Italy, France, and Germany. Walter’s unit was with the 157th Infantry when, on April 29, they arrived with the 45th Infantry at and liberated Dachau concentration camp in Germany. There were nearly 30,000 starving and dying prisoners in need of aid. Walter photographed the camp and prisoners with one of the two cameras that he carried. Walter’s Dachau photographs are part of this collection, 2000.526.1. Walter was awarded a Bronze Star for bravery while tending the wounded.
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