Original WWII British Oil Container: Can, Half Pint, Mk II M3 Grease Gun • 5 barrel cleaning brush

• 5 barrel cleaning brush jags that screw onto the end of the cleaning rod

including later manufactured M/41s

After the carbine was fired

and the German forces were able to escape and reestablish a coherent line to the north of Rome

Army nomenclature is OVERSHOES

Original WWII British Oil Container: Can, Half Pint, Mk II M3 Grease Gun • 5 barrel cleaning brushOriginal Item: The following oil containers were issued for use with British machine guns during the first and second world wars. All are original issue. (See Dolf Goldsmith, The Grand Old Lady Of No Mans Land, page 506.) Can, Half Pint, Mk II. Introduced during WW 1 in 1918 for use with the Vickers and Lewis machine guns, then used with all British machine guns. Expensively made with machined brass filler cap and dropping spout with its own cap