WWII M1936 Combat Suspenders ("HINSON 1942") Mint NOS Unissued for Sale

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WWII M1936 Combat Suspenders ("HINSON 1942") Mint NOS Unissued For Sale

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WWII M1936 Combat Suspenders ("HINSON 1942") Mint NOS Unissued:
$85.00

WWII M1936 Combat Suspenders ("HINSON MFG. CO. 1942")Mint NOS Unissued!
Here is a museum-grade example of a once-common piece of web gear: M1936 Combat Suspenders! This untouched pair from HINSON MFG. CO. of Waterloo, Iowa, the first WWII iteration of the Combat suspenders that that are seen in photos taken in every theater of the war to its bitter conclusion in 1945, despite the introduction of two other models, with padding in the last years of the war. Worn by Army and Marines alike even though the USMC had their own proprietary suspenders used with the P1941 Pack System.

Early-war M1943 COMBAT SUSPENDERS " Light Shade (Khaki-lightgreen) OD#3 canvas

+ This model has the 'D' RINGS (to accommodate the M1936"Musette" Bag, or the 'spoons' of hand grenades or gascanisters),

+ The Adjustable Buckles are the stamped, blackened steel, that were introduced in 1942 to conservebrass.

+ ZERO cuts, fraying, sun-fading, loose stitching, stains,personalized markings, (i.e. A.S.N. or name).

+ ZERO corrosion on the Ball Tips (not the 'flat' Tips also used by Hinson Mfg. on 1942 dated gear) on the webbing, the convex Friction Bucklesfor the rear straps, the narrow wire universal Snap Hooks are blackened steel, the latter, stamped with the letter 'W' on the reverse.

+ The suspenders are legibly stamped on the exterior with the "U.S."surcharge and the contractor's initials and the year of manufacture:

U.S.

HINSON MFG. CO.

1942

*****.

Source: Waterloo Daily Courier, Waterloo, Iowa, Sunday, August 19, 1945

REVEAL STORY OF WATERLOO WAR EFFORT

PRODUCTS TO ALL BRANCHES OF U.S. FORCES

Full Details of Industrial Aid to Fighting Men
Told for First Time.

By Kathleen Smith, Courrier Staff Writer

NOW IT CAN BE TOLD –

This story of Waterloo’s four-year home front battle of production which furnished to our fighting men and women billions of supplies.

To them we have sent millions of pounds of meat, thousands of tons of clothing and outdoor housing units, millions of dollars worth of munition parts, and billions of small and large vehicle parts....

Army, Navy Clothing.

The soldier, whether in the far cold north or the humid sultry south, has had to have clothing and shelter, and containers for his personal belongings and the shells he used in his gun.

Waterloo textile plants fulfilled their part in furnishing these required articles of equipment.

For nearly three years Hinson Manufacturing Co. has cut, sewed and sent to the army and navy an average of two freight cars of equipment every week, James H. Hinson, vice-president, estimates.

1,250 Tons.

A conservative estimate sets the shipment from that plant at 1,250 tons. This equipment included combat field bags, cartridge belts, ruck sacks, gun covers, jungle packs, parachute packs for the army and sea bags and luggage bags for the navy.

When the war came to an abrupt close last Tuesday the army contracts were cancelled, but work is continuing on the navy goods, officials of the plant report.

But Saturday morning the peacetime products of the company were in evidence again as stacks of seat covers and traveling bags began to grow in all corners of the large sewing room.

Unfinished Products.

While the workers on civilian goods were busy catching up with the piles of orders in the front office, in the back of the plant a few men were filling and nailing the big boxes of unfinished army articles in preparation for shipping to the quartermaster depot at Jeffersonville, Indiana.

Stacked in this warehouse-like room are rows and rows of boxes, every one containing articles in all stages of completion. One employee ( pointed out that a ‘small’ part of his work was the packing of 35,000 incomplete field bags.

The other local plants have been producing articles of wearing apparel.