Original WWI U.S. Marine Corps 1st Battalion 5th Marines Company Runner Named Grouping - Vernon Finely U.S. Militaria The F-1 in its original

The F-1 in its original design was withdrawn from French military service in 1946

but rifling is definitely still visible

there is still a small amount of original blue color to the frame but mostly it has now turned gray

This was also a problem at the end of the war with inexperienced German troops

The density of the weave makes this fabric particularly strong

Original WWI U.S. Marine Corps 1st Battalion 5th Marines Company Runner Named Grouping - Vernon Finely U.S. Militaria The F-1 in its originalOriginal Item: One of kind. Sergeant Vernon T. Finely served in the United States Marine Corps from World War One in 1918 through the end of World War Two and then with the reserves until retiring in 1956 as a Chief Warrant Officer. He served through both World Wars and nearly 40 years of total service. An article in his local newspaper 65 years after the end of WWI Reads: "We were fighting without any the mechanization of World War II. We had horse