Harvesting flasks

It was during a small Sunday walk through the plowing fields of the Carentan sector largely beaten by the rain for long weeks, that were collected on the ground about twenty small bottles of halazone. These small round-shaped or square (Owens-Illinois) brown-colored bottles, which may also be in a colorless version, with a white and / or blue label, were supplied to US Army cardboard soldiers or with rations. -in-1 because they were filled with tablets used to make the water clean for consumption. We often find these bottles with either a plastic stopper or metal, with an inside a piece of cotton.