An old belt

I know, it's not much to look at, but this is an old U.S. government issue military belt from World War 1. World War 1 relics seem to be considerably more scarce than World War 2 items - perhaps because of age or perhaps because U.S. involvement was less - intense. Anyway, World War 1 is interesting for a variety of reasons, including the advent of new tactics and weapons (tanks, machine guns, chemical warfare, air power) and the beginning of the obsolescence of old methods (e.g. trench warfare). In many ways, tacticians in WW1 threw a bunch of stuff against the wall to see what stuck. What remained was further refines (if I can use that term) in subsequent conflicts - submarine warfare, camouflage, aerial dog fighting, etc.