Original German WWII WHW Gau Bayreuth Donation Can by Westermann & Co Neheim-Ruhr with Helmet Decal - Dated 1943 German Flags Canteen features the correct aluminum

Canteen features the correct aluminum core and an original aluminum cap

Top of the barrel still has a mostly Series IV manufacturer engraving

MacGowan who was a pilot assigned to the Aviation Section

It was standardized as a bombardment group and redesignated the 509th Bombardment Group

with heavy wear from age and service

Original German WWII WHW Gau Bayreuth Donation Can by Westermann & Co Neheim-Ruhr with Helmet Decal - Dated 1943 German Flags Canteen features the correct aluminumOriginal Item: Only One Available. The WHW, Winterhilfswerk (Winter help work), was an annual charitable donation event held by the NS Volkswohlfahrt (National Socialist Peoples welfare organization), in which personnel from all of the organizations would solicit donations from the public, and reward contributors with a wide variety of lapel badges or propaganda booklets. This is a very nice red painted, sheet metal can, roughly 17cm in overall