ken88 Posted December 25, 2017 Share #101 Posted December 25, 2017 No additional information Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave G Posted December 26, 2017 Share #102 Posted December 26, 2017 The fit of the uniform in the above photo screams reenactor to me. That's a large dude poured into that uniform. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap Camouflage Pattern I Posted December 27, 2017 Share #103 Posted December 27, 2017 full photo and description is here: http://www.bergflak.com/psforeign.html "This photo is part of a series taken by PK Photgrapher Zwirner in La Luzerne, St. Andrè de L’Epine, France June-July 1944" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken88 Posted December 29, 2017 Share #104 Posted December 29, 2017 Yes, definitely not a reenactment photo... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgtdorango Posted December 29, 2017 Share #105 Posted December 29, 2017 Great photo...i think his dark tshirt/undershirt makes him standout as not the norm too.....mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave G Posted December 29, 2017 Share #106 Posted December 29, 2017 It appears to be a knit wool sweater under his uniform. You can see the cuffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
63 RECON Posted February 8, 2018 Share #107 Posted February 8, 2018 Soap Box Derby, Ulm, Germany 1948 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted February 8, 2018 Share #108 Posted February 8, 2018 Soap Box Derby, Ulm, Germany 1948 1948! Like you know, like, try like...no way Great photo by the way 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
63 RECON Posted February 8, 2018 Share #109 Posted February 8, 2018 yeah it was marked as 1948 so that is what i went with but you're most likely right another one i think on this tank crewman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted February 8, 2018 Share #110 Posted February 8, 2018 yeah it was marked as 1948 so that is what i went with but you're most likely right 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
63 RECON Posted February 8, 2018 Share #111 Posted February 8, 2018 Cheers Patches, I thought it may not have been but thought it may have just been a dark photo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArchangelDM Posted February 8, 2018 Share #112 Posted February 8, 2018 The fit of the uniform in the above photo screams reenactor to me. That's a large dude poured into that uniform. Quote made my day , Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken88 Posted February 10, 2018 Share #113 Posted February 10, 2018 2nd Rangers - recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted July 10, 2018 Share #114 Posted July 10, 2018 Found another view of Mr Heine Kraut with the Para Cover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kammo-man Posted July 31, 2018 Share #115 Posted July 31, 2018 Here is a cover in use and printed in upright Vietnam publication Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manayunkman Posted July 31, 2018 Share #116 Posted July 31, 2018 Found another view of Mr Heine Kraut with the Para Cover 5551e1cb4.jpg Where did you find that Patches? Normandy, Italy? School cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kammo-man Posted July 31, 2018 Share #117 Posted July 31, 2018 Holland Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Government Issue Posted July 31, 2018 Share #118 Posted July 31, 2018 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken88 Posted August 3, 2018 Share #119 Posted August 3, 2018 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) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted August 3, 2018 Share #120 Posted August 3, 2018 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) Great photo, never seen that one before . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted December 18, 2020 Share #121 Posted December 18, 2020 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) . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted May 11, 2021 Share #122 Posted May 11, 2021 Yet another shot of the German with the Camo Material and Italian sub machine gun, this we know now is in France. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted May 11, 2021 Share #123 Posted May 11, 2021 And this one, a German Paratrooper in France with Chicken Wire over his. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted June 19, 2021 Share #124 Posted June 19, 2021 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Kibler Posted June 23, 2021 Share #125 Posted June 23, 2021 On 7/9/2018 at 10:29 PM, patches said: Found another view of Mr Heine Kraut with the Para Cover Pretty sure that’s an Italian SMG. Great photo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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