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Bread Tin, Canteen, and Belt

from Uniforms and Equipment in WWI by National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

The bread tin was designed to keep the doughboy's ration of hard bread dry; earlier bread rations were packaged in cardboard containers which became soggy and ruined the contents.

Date: 1914 - 1918 Source Link: http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1313560

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Bread Tin, Canteen, and Belt

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Bread Tin, Canteen, and Belt

Date: 1914 - 1918 Source Link: http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1313560

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