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Australian Army M-1956 Mag Pouch CANTAS (1988)

Mag Pouch
NSN : 8465-66-026-1864

Late pattern jungle green canvas mag pouch

Marked with soldier's name & number

NSN : 8465-66-026-18

Australian M-1956 Cover with Canteen and Cup M-1910

Bottle stamped 1953.
Canteen stamped Melb 1968.

Canteen Cup

NSN : 8465-50-242-7843

Australian Army M-56/M-61 Field Pack - Bum Pack

Vietnam Era Bum Pack 1972

Field Pack
NSN : 8465-66-036-6073
V119179
September 1972

M56/M61 Butt pack, official called M1961 Field Pack.

These are the later war version with the waterproof neck on the inside which replaced the standard M56 field pack in 1961.

Australian Army M-1956 Individual Belt Suspenders

M-1956 individual Equipment Belt Suspenders
Regular / Heights under 66

NSN : 8465-66-034-4051
07314 9/69.

The olive drab U.S. Army Shade 7 cotton canvas "Suspenders, Individual Equipment Belt" (also designated "Suspenders, Field Pack, Combat, M-1956") were manufactured in Regular (FSN 8465-577-4922), Long (FSN 8465-577-4923), and X-Long (FSN 8465-823-7231) lengths to United States military specification MIL-S-40160. They are additionally adjustable in length by means of sliding metal friction fasteners.

Early production individual equipment belt suspenders attach to the individual equipment belt by means of open bent-wire hooks which are attached to the individual equipment belt's upper set of eyelets, which these are. Later production individual equipment belt suspenders utilize closing hooks in the rear and open cast hooks in the front.

The individual equipment belt suspenders feature a row of web straps over the shoulders for attaching equipment and each side featured a metal rectangular ring where the frontal web straps and the padded shoulder portion joined for additional equipment attachment. The underside of the padded portion of the suspenders is a thinner canvas in earlier-production suspenders and nylon in some of the latest examples.

NSN : 8465-50-577-4922 which would be the NCS code for Bulgaria.

NSN code has the -50- indicating the carrier was made in the US for a foreign contract.

However these were made in Australia by Q.J.M. in 1960 and the wooden crate they come packed in is marked 8465-66-034-4051 07314 9/69.

NSN : 8465-66-034-4051

Australian Vietnam Issue L2A1 SLR & L4 Mag Pouch

L2A1 SLR / L4 Mag Pouches
NSN : 8465-66-040-0231

A pair of scarce Australian issue pouches to take two 30rd mags each for L2A1 Heavy barrel SLR and L4 7.62mm Bren.

M-1956 Cotton First Aid/Compass Case

M-1956 Cotton First Aid/Compass Case

NSN: (FSN) 8465-577-4927

1ST PATTERN M1956 FIRST AID/COMPASS POUCH. CONTRACT INFORMATION IS FADED BUT READABLE. MFG TO A 1960 CONTRACT, POUCH WAS INTENDED TO CARRY A SMALL FIRST AID BANDAGE OR COMPASS

M56 First Pattern Cotton Case

DUE TO 2ND PATTERN SPECIFICATION IMPROVEMENTS THE FIRST AID/COMPASS POUCH WAS IMPROVED BY THE ADDITION OF REINFORCED STITCHING ON THE SIDES OF POUCH

2nd Pattern M1956 Cotton First Aid/Compass Case

MANUFACTURE OF 1ST PATTERN M1956 GEAR WAS MADE IN FEWER NUMBERS THAN 2ND SPECIFICATION M1956 GEAR WHICH WENT ON TO BE MASS PRODUCED WITH THE U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN VIETNAM IN 1965. ALTHOUGH IMPROVED UPON 1ST PRODUCTION M56 COMPONENTS WERE USED ALONG WITH THE OTHER IMPROVED COMPONENTS OF THE M56 GEAR THROUGH OUT THE WAR.

With the adoption of the M1956 equipment, a single simple Dressing or Compass Case replaced both the M1938 Compass Case and the M1910 and M1942(Carlisle) Dressing Pouches. This case could accommodate one each of either the standard lensatic compass or one of several individual field dressings in the inventory. A top flap closed by means of a blackened brass snap and the canvas case could be attached to the webbing by means of a single slide keeper. Later production models incorporated a metal-rimmed drainage eyelet at the bottom of the pouch. Each soldier was issued one case for carrying a field dressing, and those whose duties required them to carry the standard unmounted lensatic compass carried another for that piece of equipment. Placement varied with unit standards, but this case was often mounted in one of three places. Either on the horizontal straps on the suspenders (either shoulder and either right-side up or upside down for quick access), on the pistol belt between the buckle and ammunition case, or on the piece of webbing on the side of the ammunition case intended for the attachment of grenades.

M1956 Field Dressing/Compass Pouch

US Vietnam Period M1956 Field Dressing/Compass Pouch

Scarce early issue US M1956 canvas Vietnam period field pouch that is only marked as a compass pouch (not compass/field dressing pouch) as were the later issue pouches.