German MG 34/42 Afrikakorps Ammunition Can: Unmarked Hand Select:Yes Just as the Chemical Corps

Just as the Chemical Corps had responsibility for poison gas and smoke weapons that were used instead to deliver high-explosives during the war

Replaced later with the model incorporating a spike bayonet fitting at the bottom of the shaft as a mine probe

Various things were tried

Small: fits up to US 7 1/4 (58cm)

German MG 34/42 Afrikakorps Ammunition Can: Unmarked Hand Select:Yes Just as the Chemical CorpsOriginal Item: Found in Egypt these are original yellow tan painted, steel hinged top, ammunition cans like the ones used by Rommel's Afrikakorp in WW2. These are most likely postwar paint. Very unusual to find WW2 desert camouflage material today. Cans are offered empty. Unmarked. There is always a possibility that some of these cans were WW2 manufactured and the Markings are concealed under the desert postwar paint (no guarantees) we just didn? t