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I wanted to add to this thread, rather than start a new one. This is an image of someone in the US Army in a Signal Corps unit who served in Germany n the early 60's. He appears to be wearing Flecktarn or something similar. I'm not sure if it was the West Germans or Austrians that wore Flecktarn at that time.

 

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I wanted to add to this thread, rather than start a new one. This is an image of someone in the US Army in a Signal Corps unit who served in Germany n the early 60's. He appears to be wearing Flecktarn or something similar. I'm not sure if it was the West Germans or Austrians that wore Flecktarn at that time.

 

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Maybe it's a Hawaiian Shirt he possing in :lol:

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Not sure if this fit's here, but I recently acquired an odd shirt on ebay. Its a OG107/Utility shirt in the BGS Sumpfmuster Pattern. Has the same buttons, pocket layout, and even the same size as a OG507 durapress uniform I have!

 

No clue what the origin is; Info on the tag doesn't bring anything up on google. The material is too thin to be surplus/german fabric. I'm guessing its some sort of civilian hunting shirt, but this sure is an odd pattern and uniform to combine!

 

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Not sure if this fit's here, but I recently acquired an odd shirt on ebay. Its a OG107/Utility shirt in the BGS Sumpfmuster Pattern. Has the same buttons, pocket layout, and even the same size as a OG507 durapress uniform I have!

 

No clue what the origin is; Info on the tag doesn't bring anything up on google. The material is too thin to be surplus/german fabric. I'm guessing its some sort of civilian hunting shirt, but this sure is an odd pattern and uniform to combine!

 

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Just theorizing here but maybe the factory that made the OG-107 shirts somehow acquired a bunch of the German material on the cheap and just used the same dies/patterns (would they have had computer driven equipment then? I wouldn't think so but I don't know) to make some commercial shirts, using excess buttons.

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Just theorizing here but maybe the factory that made the OG-107 shirts somehow acquired a bunch of the German material on the cheap and just used the same dies/patterns (would they have had computer driven equipment then? I wouldn't think so but I don't know) to make some commercial shirts, using excess buttons.

 

As a textile sourcer in the Far East a long time ago I came across a roll of this material (or similar) in one of the seconds textile shops. It wasn't the german stuff which was thicker and printed with better detail. I would say some of this stuff ended up being made into Libyan Army uniforms (or were perhaps the leftovers from that contract). I still have a sample swatch I cut from the roll somewhere ...

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