Red Army "Elephant"Gasmask GP-5 / ShM-41M / SzM-41M are all very similar gas masks, it is only very small details that distinguish them. The Soviet gas mask GP-5 is based on the Soviet gas mask ShM-41M and these masks were from the beginning basically the same mask. Gas mask SzM-41M is basically the same gas mask as ShM-41M, SzM-41M is a Polish licensed production of the Soviet ShM-41M.
This gas mask is very popular in Mil-Sim, Paintball and Airsoft, but also very popular collectors mask.
THIS IS INCLUDED:
• SzM-41M "Elephant" [Size 1 Medium]
• Filter
• Gas mask hose (tube)
• Carrying bag
NOTE: Mask is unused but have marks and scuffs from long-term storage.
Filter is unused but has clear traces of long-term storage and paint flakes has loosened.
Carrying bag, color, condition and model may differ from the pictures.
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Manufactured in the following sizes:
• Size 0 = XS [60-63cm] (Kids)
• Size 1 = Small [63-65cm] (most women and youngsters)
• Size 2 = Medium [66-68cm] (universal & fits most people)
• Size 3 = Large [68-70cm]
• Size 4 = XL [over 71cm]
To determine your size, measure the vertical circumference of your head.
Use a tape measure and measure from the top of the head down to the chin along the cheeks.
Sizes 2 and 3 fit 90% of all adult men.
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GENERAL INFO:
• Filter: Canister filter
• Weight: 1.516 kg, /w bag 1.810 kg
• Country: Poland
• Period: 1960s – 80s
• Issued to: Ludowe Wojsko Polskie Army
• Manufacturer: Faser
FILTER
The mask had a 40mm thread that was connected to the filter by a black hose. The filter itself was a green, circural style filter designated EO-14, similar to the Soviet EO-12.
BAG
Comes with two paint variants: Light green and Camo wz. 58 "Deszczyk".
Meant to be carried on shoulder but due lack of chest belt availability and high interia, soldiers use to carry it on back.
Inside it's divided to three bays for mask's equipment and one outside for field patch.
The gas mask are made of butyl rubber which makes them completely resistant to the effects of atmospheric oxidation.
Since the gas masks have been stored in a mobilization store for a very long time, both mask and bags can have different color changes.
There are also different manufacturing years on the masks, therefore during manufacture, different colors of rubber have been used in different years.
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IMPORTANT NOTES:
• Date and markings shown in the photo may vary and the gas mask filter is expired.
• Not classified as civilian personal protective equipment.
• Safety features cannot be guaranteed therefore the equipment is sold as collectibles.
Please note that this is military surplus, therefore there may be small variations in model and color.
• Condition: Never used / NOS (New Old Stock) (long-term stored in military storage)
• Color: White or gray (we ship what color is in stock)
• Manufacturer: Military surplus product
• Order Number: MIL00102-1
Brands:
Original Surplus - Polish Armed Forces
- Ensuring the independence and sovereignty of the Republic of Poland, as well as its integrality and the inviolability of its borders
- Defence and protection of all the citizens of the Republic of Poland
- Creating conditions to ensure the continuity of the implementation of functions by public administration authorities and other entities competent in the area of national security, including entities responsible for running the economy and for other areas important for the life and security of its citizens
- Creating conditions for the improvement of the state's national defence capabilities and ensuring defence readiness in allied structures
- Developing partnership military cooperation with other states, especially neighbouring ones
- Implementing commitments arising from Poland's NATO and European Union membership
- Engaging in international crisis response operations led by NATO, the EU, the UN, and as a part of emergency coalitions.The List of Polish wars chronicles Polish military involvements since the year 972. The present armed forces trace their roots to the early 20th century, yet the history of Polish armed forces in their broadest sense stretches back much further. After the partitions of Poland, during the period from 1795 until 1918, Polish military was recreated several times during national insurrections that included the November Uprising of 1830, and the January Uprising in 1863, and the Napoleonic Wars that saw the formation of the Polish Legions in Italy. The Congress Poland, being part of the Russian Empire with a certain degree of autonomy, had a separate Polish army in the years 1815–1830, which was disbanded after the unsuccessful November Uprising. Large numbers of Poles also served in the armies of the partitioning powers, Russian Empire, Austria-Hungary and German Empire.
During World War I, the Polish Legions were set up in Galicia, the southern part of Poland under Austrian occupation. They were both disbanded after the Central Powers failed to provide guarantees of Polish independence after the war. General Józef Haller, the commander of the Second Brigade of the Polish Legion, switched sides in late 1917, and via Murmansk took part of his troops to France, where he created the Blue Army. It was joined by several thousand Polish volunteers from the United States. It fought on the French front in 1917 and 1918.
The Polish Army was recreated in 1918 from elements of the three separate Russian, Austro-Hungarian, and German armies, and armed with equipment left following World War I. The force expanded during the Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1922 to nearly 800,000 men, but then were reduced after peace was reestablished.
At the onset of World War II, on 1 September 1939 Nazi Germany invaded Poland. Polish forces were overwhelmed by the German attack in September 1939, which was followed on 17 September 1939 by an invasion by the Soviet Union. Some Polish forces escaped from the occupied country and joined Allied forces fighting in other theaters while those that remained in Poland splintered into guerilla units of the Armia Krajowa ("Home Army") and other partisan groups which fought in clandestine ways against the foreign occupiers. Thus, there were three threads to Polish armed forces from 1939; the Polish Armed Forces in the West, the Armia Krajowa and other resistance organizations fighting the Germans in Poland, and the Polish Armed Forces in the East, which later became the post-war communist Polish People's Army (LWP). Until the fall of communism, the army's prestige under communist rule continued to fall, as it was used by the government to resettle ethnic minorities immediately after the war (Operation Vistula), and to violently suppress opposition several times, during the 1956 Poznań protests, the 1970 Polish protests, and during martial law in Poland in 1981–1983. The LWP also took part in the suppressing of the 1968 democratization process of Czechoslovakia, commonly known as the Prague Spring. That same year Marshal of Poland Marian Spychalski was asked to replace Edward Ochab as chairman of the Council of State, and General Wojciech Jaruzelski, at that time the Chief of the General Staff, was named to replace him. Jaruzelski, a known Soviet loyalist, was put in place by the Soviets in order to ensure that a trusted group of officers was in control of one of the least trusted armies in the Warsaw Pact.
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