Telephone, Field, EE-8-B, with Leather Case, Normandy

Genuine WWII US Army field telephone, EE-8-B type, which was used as a local or central set. Made up of an aluminium frame holding batteries and ringing equipment, along with a TS-9-F handset.

The EE-8 field telephone was standardized in 1932 and procurement began in 1937, providing a lighter and more functional unit just in time for the huge mobilization of the US military in 1941. Among other improvements, the EE-8 increased the maximum transmission range of the predecessor EE-5 field telephone by six miles or more.

Delivered in its original leather case marked Signal Corps, US Army, Telephone EE-8-B.