Original German WWII WHW Gau Bayreuth Donation Can by Westermann & Co Neheim-Ruhr - Dated 1943 French & Indian War shortages of the Thompson Machine

shortages of the Thompson Machine Gun in the Pacific led to the USMC to look for alternatives

as well as some bends in the rear skirt

It received the factory code number of 11 to prevent confusion with an earlier Factory #11

and 395th Regiments were put on line

Original German WWII WHW Gau Bayreuth Donation Can by Westermann & Co Neheim-Ruhr - Dated 1943 French & Indian War shortages of the Thompson MachineOriginal Item: Only One Available. The WHW, Winterhilfswerk (Winter help work), was an annual charitable donation event held by the "NS Volkswohlfahrt" (National Socialist Peoples welfare organization), in which personnel from all of the organizations would solicit donations from the public, and reward contributors with a wide variety of lapel badges or propaganda booklets. This is a very nice red painted, sheet metal can, roughly 17cm in overall