PanzerPaul Posted November 27, 2018 Share #101 Posted November 27, 2018 Here is the second helmet - a WWII type 2 cover with slits, but no slits on the rabbit ears that go into the helmet. The EGA on this one is faint, a bit smaller, and has more of the features of a complete EGA. Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frogskin7 Posted November 29, 2018 Share #102 Posted November 29, 2018 Here is the discussion: http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/149216-ega-stencilled-usmc-mitchell-cover/ It's on debating EGAs on Mitchell covers but this one was shared on there. Apparently from a 1953 tour book. A few more are on that discussion as well but from 1956. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kammo-man Posted November 29, 2018 Share #103 Posted November 29, 2018 Great pic Owen Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PanzerPaul Posted November 29, 2018 Share #104 Posted November 29, 2018 Thanks for the great photo and link Frogskin7. Looks like the two 1953 EGA camo cover photos posted in this thread are the earliest examples found so far. Thanks, Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GIJive Posted December 3, 2018 Share #105 Posted December 3, 2018 This photo has nothing to do with the slit/non-slit debate, but I thought maybe some members would like to see some sort of hand applied insignia to the USMC camouflage cover by an individual Marine, Not sure what the insignia is supposed to be or represents, but I thought some might find it interesting. The stills are from a newsreel on the invasion of Kwajalein-February, 1944 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GIJive Posted December 3, 2018 Share #106 Posted December 3, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kammo-man Posted December 3, 2018 Share #107 Posted December 3, 2018 I found the his pic while looking through my old photos Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArchangelDM Posted December 3, 2018 Author Share #108 Posted December 3, 2018 I found the his pic while looking through my old photos Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Cool pic Owen - The one in your left hand beach side out looks to be a repro, you can see the crescent moon. Where some of these film props ? Yours Dean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PanzerPaul Posted December 3, 2018 Share #109 Posted December 3, 2018 GIJive, Very interesting Kwajalein Feb. 44 photo - certainly something hand done on his helmet. Thanks for posting it. Owen - I grew up in Barstow, California where one of the Marine Corps Logistics Bases is located. I can remember cardboard sided 55 gallon drums filled with WWII camo covers, being sold as rags in the old surplus shop in town. Wish I would have bought a couple hundred of them back then. Did you work on the HBO Pacific series? Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frogskin7 Posted December 3, 2018 Share #110 Posted December 3, 2018 Cool pic Owen - The one in your left hand beach side out looks to be a repro, you can see the crescent moon. Where some of these film props ? Yours Dean Both of them look like reproductions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kammo-man Posted December 4, 2018 Share #111 Posted December 4, 2018 This pic is from Eastern Costumes .................. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kammo-man Posted December 4, 2018 Share #112 Posted December 4, 2018 See the box...........EC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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