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the leather sweatband is in good supple condition but has come unattached from the cap for about 50% of the circumference
This is overall a nice example of the classic eye piece for German infantry officers during WWII
1917 Contract garment made by the Bernheim firm
Shows light wear with some minor nips in the wool body
A two-ocean war produced horrific numbers of casualties
Original U.S. Spanish-American War US Army M-1895 6th Infantry Medical Corps Major’s Tunic 40mm BOFORS the leather sweatband is inOriginal Item: Only One Available. The Spanish American War of 1898 was brief, with relatively few battle casualties, but epidemic disease, especially typhoid fever, devastated the volunteer troops. Post war investigations and commissions generated better understanding of the problem of asymptomatic carriers and a series of recommendations that greatly improved military medicine. The new practices, including the development of a typhoid vaccine, saved
