Original U.S. WWI French Chauchat Machine Gun Magazine Carrying Bag Caps & Hats colors and subordinate unit designations

colors and subordinate unit designations of the Division were transferred from Korea to Fort Benning

which is marked with Gr-59 / 010250/6577

and after spot paint stripping is faintly marked WAa45

The hilt is fit with the typical brass basket guard

Original U.S. WWI French Chauchat Machine Gun Magazine Carrying Bag Caps & Hats colors and subordinate unit designationsOriginal Item. Only One Available. This is a great example of a U. S. manufactured bag to hold the crescent moon shaped magazines of the French Fusil Mitrailleur Modle 1915 CSRG Chauchat LMG, which the United States used extensively during World War I. The bag is marked U. S. on the front as shown, but there is no makers mark on the interior, so this was likely an early manufacture. The bag retains its original carrying strap which is fully secured to