WW2 US Army U.S.E.D. Engineer Department vehicle JEEP Shovel WWII USGI

Description: Antique original World War One / world war Two U.S. military UNITED STATES ENGINEER DEPARTMENT - shovel ( US ED ) Jeep / Vehicle / trench / fortification shovel cast iron handle , steel blade , strong hardwood shaft Deeply stamped “ U.S.E.D. “ on the upper shank of the blade it has a Unique cast iron ‘ D ‘ shaped grip It has two period made red stripes painted on the wooden shaft - This type of marking was done prior to embarkation aboard ship , it was used to identify gear and equipment being loaded for a particular unit ( during D day ) Virtually guaranteeing that this shovel saw some real combat action ! A scarce combat engineer dept entrenching tool digging implement this style was manufactured between 1917 and 1940 no doubt that out of the thousands that were issued and sent over seas , very few ,..if any returned home to the USA over all length is 42 inches with a — wide spade shaped blade WW2 US Army U.S.E.D. combat Engineer Shovel WWII with D DAY ETO ‘ stripes ‘ don’t pass it up A must have for all US military history / WWI - WW2 artifact aficionados and all vintage military vehicle collectors These were Used for building fortifications, digging fox holes , graves and even latrines ! More information on the colored Stripes used on vehicles and equipment : They were a means for designating organic units within a major unit upon arrival in the UK the practice of stencilling equipment, duffel bags and vehicles with stripes was was widely used in the MTO (starting at least from August- September, 1943 – and redeployed to the UK for the Normandy invasion. Few vehicles belonging to units deploying to North West Europe directly from the UK after June 1944 bear these stripes. used widely to ID individual units. As a form of tactical marking on military vehicles in the ETO and at Normandy in particular, the D-Day invasion, the standard well known fender/bumper unit designations on field gear , equipment, jeeps, trucks, armored cars, half-tracks, TD's and tanks prior unit i . d . Markings were to have been obscured for security reasons, and replaced with an emblem which consisted of horizontally situated colored bars, or *horizontal* colored BAR-CODES, and corresponding serial numbers specific to the unit the vehicle belonged to. There is photographic evidence of these colored security bar-code emblems in publications concerning the Normandy invasion , unfortunately, the photos are not in color, bar code was similar for all equipment in the company or troop, and based on the last two digits of the unit serial number. During Preparation for overseas Movement Which of course means that the 'unit serial number' associated with the colored bar code Knowledge of the specific units of these colored bar codes is still being researched used on Normandy bound equipment and vehicles, it was the standard US military unit coding system at the time of D DAY

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Location: Schaumburg, Illinois

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