Original U.S. WWII Army Airborne 1944-Dated Rigging by Hayes Mfg. Co. with High Quality Reproduction T-5 Reserve Parachute Scottish Militaria mostly straight with regular small

mostly straight with regular small points

The leather looks to have been dyed black originally

There is a bit of oxidation on the areas that have lost the plating

CHICAGO ILLINOIS

China 1945

Original U.S. WWII Army Airborne 1944-Dated Rigging by Hayes Mfg. Co. with High Quality Reproduction T-5 Reserve Parachute Scottish Militaria mostly straight with regular smallOriginal Item. Only One Available. The T 5 parachute was standardized in June 1941 and many of these first pattern chutes were heavily employed in all theaters of action. They saw extensive use in training, the early airborne operations in North Africa & Sicily, as well as the daylight drop of Operation Dragoon in Southern France. White T 5's remained standard throughout the war in the Pacific theater of operations such as Nadzab, Noemfoor, and