WW2 USMC Army ETHOCEL Canteen GI General Industries 1943 Rare! With the early aluminum cap. The cover has the manufacture on the inside flap, I can't quite make it out. The front is marked US and the bottom has the solders last 4 that it was issued too. Good condition, SHARP contractor markings, and the EARLIEST (1943) of several dates!!
Only one I have ever owned. The Quartermaster Catalog describes this Canteen simply as.
This example has NO cracks, NO seam separation, NO deformation of the threaded neck, NO scrapes from the rivets of a Canteen Cup, and NO I. This Canteen is a ...