Crate to identify

[julien54]

Hello
Could you please tell me if this crate is US and what it is for ,?
It has been reused by the french army (there are 2 green paint).
The lock looks german but it has also been used by the US army (on early 50 cal boxes for example).
Thanks for your help
Julien

[julien54]

After checking a lot of pages on the internet, it has a little look of signal corps chest.

[W. Winget]

I did a post on a box like this from 1918 that had a complete tool set within, later they were used for signal corps (same boxes) I'd love to find one eventually and fill it with the tools as show on that post I made over a year ago.
V/R W. Winget

Look down on the 1st page of this post.
viewtopic.php?f=48&t=305355&hilit=tool+chest#p1776649

[julien54]

Hello and thanks for your help.
Yes it looks a bit like the chest you posted but it is still different. Do you think it is the same model ?
Thanks

[W. Winget]

They reconfigured the chest for various purposes. Others have found it to be a Signal Corps tool chest in WWII issue form.
So either the box design was well planned out, or they had a large surplus of the boxes after WWI and just re-issued them with tooling for WWII as needed.
V/R W Winget

[julien54]

Thanks for your help

[Quest Master]

I can tell you with 100% certainty, that the blue stripe on the top (should be ones on the sides too) were WWII Army Air Force overseas shipping container markings.

['42 Peep's Motorpool]

It could be a USAAF stripe ( light blue No. 118), but it's pretty worn down, maybe Chemical Corps deep blue No. 115?