Original U.S. WWI Excellent Named & Insignia-Inscribed 78th Division Corrected English Type Box Respirator Gas Mask to Wounded Soldier - 312th Infantry Regiment - PFC William J. Ludwig Japanese Uniforms or at least assembled

or at least assembled

The shell has some heavy oxidation on the interior

Caliber: 6mm Blanks

preventing any certain identification

This set dates to the WW2 period but

Original U.S. WWI Excellent Named & Insignia-Inscribed 78th Division Corrected English Type Box Respirator Gas Mask to Wounded Soldier - 312th Infantry Regiment - PFC William J. Ludwig Japanese Uniforms or at least assembledOriginal Item. One of a Kind. The 78th Division of the United States Army was constituted on 5 August 1917 and activated on 23 August 1917, over four months after the American entry into World War I, at Camp Dix, New Jersey. It consisted of four infantry regiments: the 309th, 310th, 311th and 312th; and three artillery Regiments: the 307th, 308th and 309th. The division was originally allocated to New York and northern Pennsylvania in the National