Description
home address
1844 June 22
In its original design
75 x 70 cm
small surgical set
Original U.S. WWII Mae West USAAF Pneumatic Life Vest by Firestone - January 1945 Military Art home addressOriginal Item: Only One Available. During World War II the U. S. aviators and the Royal Air Force servicemen had available to them a vital piece of American made equipment for emergencies that had only been in use for a few years: an inflatable (Mae West) life preserver, courtesy of a man named Peter Markus (1885 1973). Markus developed his invention in the 1920s and received a patent on it in 1928; in 1930 and 1931 he patented some minor changes to