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Soap Box Derby, Ulm, Germany 1948

1948! Like you know, like, try like...no way :lol:

 

Great photo by the way :D

 

 

Late 50s at best, early 60s better still. Ulm at the time was home to some elmts of the 8th Infantry Division 1st and 2nd Battle Groups 13th Infantry, as well as some elmts of the 4th Armored Division.

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yeah it was marked as 1948 so that is what i went with but you're most likely right :D

 

another one i think on this tank crewman

That one is a duck hunter cover as it is not Parachute silk like material as it lacks that sheen but rather a cloth version, Duck Hunter cloth.

 

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Government Issue

That's the 5th but men from the 2nd definitely used them as well. ;)

 

Also, Ken that was a really interesting photo of the 36th GI in the San Pietro area. I've heard people claim that the camo chutes were a mid to late '44 thing and were not common in Normandy, but that pic is sufficient evidence that they were in use as early as Italy and '43. Thanks for posting!

 

Wait, does that enterprising Heine with the camo cover have a bazooka?

 

2nd Rangers - recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross

 

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That's the 5th but men from the 2nd definitely used them as well. ;)

 

Also, Ken that was a really interesting photo of the 36th GI in the San Pietro area. I've heard people claim that the camo chutes were a mid to late '44 thing and were not common in Normandy, but that pic is sufficient evidence that they were in use as early as Italy and '43. Thanks for posting!

 

Wait, does that enterprising Heine with the camo cover have a bazooka?

 

 

 

 

Sorry, my mistake! Found it somewhere captioned as 2nd Rangers.

 

Not sure when the camo chutes entered into combat in the ETO but they were already being made in 1943. Maybe the first ones were issued just before the invasion of Italy?

 

Here's another interesting pic I found just recently... (probably taken in Normandy, France, 1944 - definitely looks like the bocage)

 

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Sorry, my mistake! Found it somewhere captioned as 2nd Rangers.

 

Not sure when the camo chutes entered into combat in the ETO but they were already being made in 1943. Maybe the first ones were issued just before the invasion of Italy?

 

Here's another interesting pic I found just recently... (probably taken in Normandy, France, 1944 - definitely looks like the bocage)

 

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Great photo, never seen that one before post-34986-0-96465200-1533311499.png.

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A couple of 9th Infantry Division GIs wearing Para Camo Covers in West Germany in April 1956 (9th Infantry Division in West Germany since May1954, really reflagged from the 28th Infantry Division which reverts on paper back to the Pennsylvania National Guard, the 9th Infantry Division goes to Ft Carson Colorado in 1957) .

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California NG 4.2 Motarmen of the old 49th Infantry Division sometime in the late 50s early 60s wearing what appears to be the type.

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On 7/9/2018 at 10:29 PM, patches said:

Found another view of Mr Heine Kraut with the Para Cover :D

 

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Pretty sure that’s an Italian SMG.  Great photo.  

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