CD V-777-1 Radiation Detection Kit
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CDV777-1 Kit
In early 2005 I received an e-mail from a gentleman in Detroit asking if there was anything radioactive in this kit that he should be concerned about before selling it at a flea market. I've been wanting an original issue kit like this since I saw one in the Corps of Engineers Photos that I put up on this site a few years ago. I immediately replied with a "please sell it to me" e-mail. A couple of weeks later I had the thing! This kit came from a shelter in Detroit Michigan that was cleaned out back in the late 1970s. This is one of the original issue kits in the plain cardboard box with a stick-on label. This kit is a standard CD V-777-1 kit with a Victoreen CD V-715 Model 1A, an Anton CD V-700 Model 6, a CD V-750 Model 5 and 2-CD V-742 Bendix dosimeters.Click image or thumbnails below to see larger photos of this kit.
CD V-777-1 Kit Information From 1964 DOD OCD Annual Statistical Report

The DOD OCD 1964 Annual Statistical Report page 58 has this image and info about the CD V-777-1 Shelter Radiation Kit. Click here to see the whole page. DOD OCD 1964 Annual Statistical Report page 58

More Photos Of The Kit I Received From Detroit
777-1 Kit Box
Kit Box
777-1 Kit Instrument Boxes
Kit Box and Instrument Boxes
Kit Box Label
Box Label
Kit Box Packed
Box packed with kit contents.
This type of kit has the individual instrument boxes that fit tight into the large box.
Mask Bag Instructions
Mask Bag Instructions.



Shelter Manual and Mask Also in the box with the radiation instruments is a CD V-805 CBR Mask and Detroit Shelter Managers Manual. I've never seen a mask like this before and have never seen it referenced in any Civil Defense material that I have. It was packaged in a foil bag which was opened but the mask was never unwrapped. The mask still has the protective paper over the lenses and is in excellent condition. I don't know if these masks were standard issue in these kits or if this one just ended up in this kit. Some early versions of the CD V-777 kit were issued with masks but I don't know about the V-777-1 kits. The CBR stands for Chemical Biological Radiological. This mask appears to have just a particulate filter on it. I haven't opened the mask up all the way but the filter appears to be a cloth type of filter. Click the photo to see a larger version.