Paint, Detector, Vesicant, Liquid, M5, type 2, Normandy

€90.00
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Genuine WWII US tin of liquid vesicant detector M5 paint Type 2, that helped detect poisonous gas. Often applied on motor vehicles, especially on the hood, where the ground-to-air recognition star was painted. The brown or green paint would turn red when vesicants were encountered. Soldiers also painted their helmets using this paint.

Manufactured by The Hilton-Davis Chemical Co., Cincinnati, Ohio.

Tin is full and unopened; found in Cully (between Caen and Bayeux) in Normandy. 

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