that is nuts...  

Hey there.   I'm working on a late-Vietnam USMC impression, and I heard that it was common for some to ditch their ammo pouches in favor of a few bandoliers.    Is this true, and if so, does anyone have any good photos of this?   Thanks!   Wade

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It does look similar, thank you very much! 👍

Picked up this really cool 1940 German 10cm shell. Could not pass it up.  

Hahaha thanks Allan

Do you perhaps mean the city "Castrop-Rauxel" in Germany ?

Used to be 40 bucks less in 5 years ago. Miss the good ol days in the Dan Sinh Market 

I got this 1984 grenadier Vest for 40 bucks a week ago. And i just modified it a bit for carrying ALICE/ABA Pouches. Like the old Delta Force/Seals in the early 80s

I know this thread is getting "long in the tooth," so to speak, but I found it as I was researching the subject of US Army WWII tentage. From what I've learned, I believe that the brass tubular tent slips were used until superseded by the coiled wire types starting around 1936.  Since the brass tubular slips were no doubt quite durable, it's likely they remained in use with the tentage they were issued with.  New production tentage starting ca. 1936/37 would have been issued with the new coiled wire slips (which seem to be the most prevalent in war-time period photos.  I could easily see the use of the brass tubular types all through the pre-war large maneuvers as the US Army was built up in size. Note the drawing date (not the drawing number) of this QM drawing, October 19, 1936.  So, these coiled wire types of slips likely started showing up in 1937 with new issued tentage. BTW, if anyone has some of these coiled wire type tent slips that they might sell, do please let me know.  I'm searching for about 2 dozen of them.