entrenching tool - A small folding shovel used to dig fighting positions. It could be locked in a right angle hoe or in the fully extended shovel position. The narrow spike on the back was used as a pick and could also be locked in right angle of fully extended positions.
By 1969 we were getting issued the new folding shovel. It was lighter more versatile and much easier to carry.
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