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Type A-14b Oxygen Mask


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The Rooster

Greetings all.

I picked this up for a display I'm building. I'm putting it with a M4A2 flack helemt

and a leather flight helmet. I was looking for opnions as to era and worth.

Meaning it was advertised as a ww2 oxygen mask and I was wondering if I overpaid or did good

at $75.00 ?

 

Thank you.,

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Great mask but I believe the A14b is a resin mask and is post WW2. These I believe were made late 50s into the 1960s

I believe 75.00 is a fair price but mask would not be correct for WW2 era display.

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The Rooster

Great mask but I believe the A14b is a resin mask and is post WW2. These I believe were made late 50s into the 1960s

I believe 75.00 is a fair price but mask would not be correct for WW2 era display.

 

Thank you Navy Bean. Well, I guess I should have looked before leaping....

It will do for what Im making. Any idea how long the airforce used the Flak Helmets?

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The flak helmets were used by the AAF until the end of WW2. I do not believe any flak helmets for the USAAF were produced after WW2

The M4A2 was not produced after 1944 early 1945

Only time I have seen pictures of USAAF flak helmets used after WW2 in combat was by Korean War era US Army tankers

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  • 5 months later...

Not to change the subject on this mask, but does anyone have any info on possible or difinitive use of the A14-b / MBU-4p mask by

US Navy pilots in Korea or vietnam for low altitude ops?

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