Military pliers?

[Edkat3]

Found this in a junk shop the other day. Too old to be WWII. Any idea if these are military issued or not. No maker name or markings other than the US.

[lazyassforge]

I had found a set of those too! Check out this link for here at Papaws wrench:

http://www.papawswrench.com/vboard/index.php?topic=1956.msg11543#msg11543

Hope this helps!, Bill D.

[Edkat3]

Thanks Bill.

[Plyerman]

Yep, thanks for the link!

[wvtools]

I had always thought that style was WWII era barbed wire pliers, but I guess that link shows I was wrong.  Several Ebay listings show them as WWI or WWII.  Does anyone know if they were still using them in WWII?

[Billman49]

In the UK and other European countries the same item had a long life in the military - a sealed pattern tool or piece of kit may have been issued through most of the 20th century, made by a number of different maufacturers - in my own area, billhooks, the same model is often found with date stamps 1914 to 1918 and 1939 to 1945, plus occasionally earlier or later - it was only discontinued in the 1960's, when it was replaced by a machete/jungle knife. The same pattern barbed wire cutters are found in the UK stamped for both world wars. so I guess in the USA they would well have been found in both...

[EVILDR235]

In my shop i have a pair of pliers marked MADE IN GERMANY-U.S.ZONE.



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