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Wish I could make the pic larger.
Wish I could make the pic larger.
I'd make it about the steps before I keeled over if I had to carry that.
If anyone can help, I would like to know what the tubes in the two pouches in the lower left hand corner are?
Where did that picture come from? The pack at the upper left looks like a parachute, which would've been ditched upon landing. The bayonet is the 16" version from early on in WW2, and would have been traded in for a 10" version by 1944. The M1911 was carried mainly by officers, I think, who wouldn't be carrying a radio under normal conditions. And the radio itself is the small SCR-536 used on the squad level; often the backpack SCR-300 was used on the company and battalion level, like this one carried by a Marine radioman in Saipan:
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Might be extra batteries for the hand held.
Since this is the radioman's kit, I'm going to guess batteries. Another thought was Bangalore torpedo but it doesn't look like what I found online.
Those seem a bit large to be batteries; here's a pic of the radio with the two different batteries used:
Perhaps. Still looking.
