American Web Equipment 1967-1991

by C.A. Monroe and Craig Pickrall

From the beginning of the twentieth century, United States military individual load-carrying equipments were fabricated mainly of cotton duck and cotton webbing. Throughout the First and Second World Wars, as well as the Korean War, cotton-based load-carrying equipments served the infantryman with little change in their design and construction. In 1954 a new load-carrying system was developed to meet the needs of the infantryman on the perceived battlefields...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847973159
• ISBN13: 9781847973153
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Crowood Press (UK)
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.3" x 10.0"