A one quart capacity canteen and Khaki canvas cover. The steel canteen is slightly concave to its reverse and retains its screw cap, attached between its top and a flange brazed to the base of the neck by a short metal chain. The bottom of the canteen is engraved "U.S. Vollrath 1943", while the cup is un-marked. Its Khaki canvas cover has felt padding to its interior and two extended flaps to its open top, each of which have a lift-the -dot snap which mates with a corresponding stud to the upper body of the cover. The snaps and studs are of blackened brass. There are seven vertical reinforcing stitching lines to the front with "U.S." in black ink stamped beneath the stitching. The mounted troop cover had reinforced webbing to secure the belt hanger. These covers are visible in use by Airborne Troops, to insure their canteen would not tear loose with the jolt of their parachute opening. The rear panel is stamped "Nu-Mode Inc. 1943".