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A few days ago my 14-450 corpsman bag got here (thanks to vintage productions) and it was the final bag (if you don’t count the S-14) to my corpsman bag collection!

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Of course! It’s a unit-3 bag (I’m using a towel as a place holder) it was used in the last battles of the war (from my knowledge)  but saw most use in Korea.

5 hours ago, Justin said:

The bag far right is very nice, can you share more photos of it? 

 

Nice collection. 

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Cool collection, congrats !

I think you still miss the larger version of the USN MD bag (I can't remember its nomenclatura name) - on the top of the picture below

Max

 

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5 hours ago, max0073 said:

Cool collection, congrats !

I think you still miss the larger version of the USN MD bag (I can't remember its nomenclatura name) - on the top of the picture below

Max

 

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I like the setup and the jacket! I believe the one I have is the larger one but I also have a modified smaller one.

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10 hours ago, max0073 said:

Cool collection, congrats !

I think you still miss the larger version of the USN MD bag (I can't remember its nomenclatura name) - on the top of the picture below

Max

 

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So I turns out I do have the smaller one. And the one in the photo looks to be the bigger sized version!

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1 hour ago, ArchangelDM said:

Great collection

 

Here is mine for reference 

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Very nice! Always loved your corpsman stuff! 

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I think there are also medic bags made from permanently modifying lower packs with a belt. The collector who told me this didn’t offer any evidence to support his claim that it was a known modification used by corpsman but one of my two named examples of this field modification had a potential match to a corpsman with the 1st Marine Div if I remember correctly so it seems possible. 

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5 hours ago, Ray42 said:

I think there are also medic bags made from permanently modifying lower packs with a belt. The collector who told me this didn’t offer any evidence to support his claim that it was a known modification used by corpsman but one of my two named examples of this field modification had a potential match to a corpsman with the 1st Marine Div if I remember correctly so it seems possible. 

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Totally plausible, marines and troops in general will use what they feel meets the needs of the job and is also comfortable to wear. 
I have also seen the lower pack carried in hand as a bag rather than a pack !

 

- Dean 

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1 hour ago, ArchangelDM said:


Totally plausible, marines and troops in general will use what they feel meets the needs of the job and is also comfortable to wear. 
I have also seen the lower pack carried in hand as a bag rather than a pack !

 

- Dean 

Here is an example of a Corpsman Knapsack (Not Modified) it has a Red Cross on it. From GI Concepts AKA Jeff Warner:

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6 hours ago, JerryTheGerman said:

Here is an example of a Corpsman Knapsack (Not Modified) it has a Red Cross on it. From GI Concepts AKA Jeff Warner:

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That’s spot on Jerry ! 
thanks for adding JW’s amazing representation of a corpsman 

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1 hour ago, Justin said:

The OD#7 Unit 3 bag is really nice. I have one in ratty condition in #3, that's one of the nicer ones I've seen. Thanks for sharing! 

Thanks, it does have the divider missing though!

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Made a interesting discovery today while looking through a 1943 “Hospital Corps Quarterly” and saw an strange variant of the 14-280 bag. And this got me thinking if the 14-280 was actually not as early as we though and may have been a early 1942 through mid 1943 production and not pre-war as thought.

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Jerry, that's not a 14-280 bag.  Warner's book misidentified the Pouch, Hospital Corps, Small, as the 14-280. This has all been covered in the pinned discussion about the 14-280 bags.

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