Original 19th Century Japanese Late Edo Period Lacquered Flat Samurai Jingasa Helmet with Family Crest & Liner with Straps Category_MG 34 Buffer & Butt Stock helping with the April 1944

helping with the April 1944 mass escape at Stalag Luft III

27 Mar 1944

showing long use

which features the state eagle clutching a scepter and crown

und Oberbefehlshaber der Luftwaffe

Original 19th Century Japanese Late Edo Period Lacquered Flat Samurai Jingasa Helmet with Family Crest & Liner with Straps Category_MG 34 Buffer & Butt Stock helping with the April 1944Original Item: Only One Available. A KASA () is any one of several sorts of traditional Japanese hats. Some types are amigasa, jingasa, sandogasa, sugegasa, and takuhatsugasa. Note that rendaku ("sequential voicing") causes kasa to change to gasa when it is preceded by another word specifying the type of hat: thus, JINGASA ( "camp hat"; helmet). These were issued to the lowliest soldiers of the Japanese War Lords (The Samurai). They were used by