Keywords: Ww2 wwII plastic US canteen U.S.jpg A fairly large number of these canteens were integrated as an experiment along with standard aluminum canteens during WWII They are not extremely rare I've been told they were an experiment and the US Army was considering totally replacing aluminum canteens with plastic ones In fact during Vietnam they actually did switch to plastic canteens although they were larger and shaped different and were not partly transparent as these are As you know camel backs have now made canteens obsolete although a few individuals continue to carry them as a personal preference M Bando/Trigger Time M Bando and Jeffery Barnes M Bando and Jeffery Barnes free United States canteens |