Who, What & Where.........

[captskillet]

dig that crazy camo pattern!!!!!

[Terminus]

Marine artillerymen hard at work. Cape Gloucester, 12/43.

[Rob Brennan UK]

Looks like they aquired some SS camo uniforms [:D]

[Terminus]

Those ARE Marine pattern, methinks...[8D]

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Rob Brennan UK

Looks like they aquired some SS camo uniforms [:D]

Actually, i think they had to abort introduction of camo in the ETO, because it looked too much like SS camo. I think a few folk got shot in "blue on blue" incidents before they withdrew it.

[Terminus]

2nd Armored Division went ashore in France with them, and very quickly took them off again.

[Big B]

That looks like standard US WWII camo (I have some somewhere).

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Marine artillerymen hard at work. Cape Gloucester, 12/43.

You're probably right terminus....but how did you extract all that info down to the date - in that photo!!???[X(][:D]

B

[Yamato hugger]

ORIGINAL: Big B

That looks like standard US WWII camo (I have some somewhere).

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Marine artillerymen hard at work. Cape Gloucester, 12/43.

You're probably right terminus....but how did you extract all that info down to the date - in that photo!!???[X(][:D]

B

Pfft. Enlarge some of the trash on the ground and you will see a letter that says:

"Happy birthday Marine" and the postmark is 12/43, you can tell the letter was just opened by the lack of dirt on the inside, and the address on the envelope is Cape Gloucester.

Thats an easy one [:'(]

[Speedysteve]

Pfft. Also cheating. Should be achieved by looking purely at the military material [:'(]

[captskillet]

ok for bonus pts ID the weapon.............[:'(]...[;)]!!!!

[Yamato hugger]

pak 75 would be my guess.

[m10bob]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Marine artillerymen hard at work. Cape Gloucester, 12/43.

I agree totally.............
BTW, toe old TV series showed Vic Morrow's character wearing the cloth cammy cover on his helmet, but Dad said he never saw it used in ETO. I know it was tried, for about 2 weeks, but it was (as stated) too close to German cammy colors.
(The Shirmfalljaeger used them as well..)

[Terminus]

ORIGINAL: Big B

That looks like standard US WWII camo (I have some somewhere).

You're probably right terminus....but how did you extract all that info down to the date - in that photo!!???[X(][:D]

B

Well, it's the enormity of my brain, obviously. Permanent crick in my neck for carrying the thing around...

That photo is in one of my WWII Pacific history books.[:D]

75mm Pack Howitzer.

[Terminus]

ORIGINAL: m10bob

(The Shirmfalljaeger used them as well..)

Shirmfalljaeger?

[GoofTrooper]

ORIGINAL: Yamato hugger

pak 75 would be my guess.

I thought PaK meant Panzerabwehrkanone. Which means anti-tank cannon in German. Maybe they really are SS[:D]

[GoofTrooper]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

ORIGINAL: m10bob

(The Shirmfalljaeger used them as well..)

Shirmfalljaeger?

I think he means Schutzstaffel (SS).

[Terminus]

Nah, no Waffen SS gun crew would keep such a disorderly gun pit.

[GoofTrooper]

Then it must be Fallschirmjager (that he meant).

[m10bob]

Yeah..I meant Fallschirmjaeger..They informally called themselves what I called them, as they thought themselves "cannon fodder" after Crete.. This was a VERY inside joke.
I made friends with a bunch of them In Frankfurt am Main, while stationed there. Don't know if the club is still there, but it was on Eschersheimer Landstrasse, about half a block south of Michael- Addickes Allee, on the east side of the street..
These were Luftwaffe paratroopers..
Now, I also had friends in the Waffen SS, but their club was on Kaiserstrasse, about 2 blocks north of the Hauptbahnhof...........
Ranger tabs..Jump wings..
They open doors.........O.K. ?

[Terminus]

ORIGINAL: m10bob

Ranger tabs..Jump wings..
They open doors.........O.K. ?

I'll bet...