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Sep 2002
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Originally posted by vodkakov
Some Brits from the Malayan/Kenyan Emergencies with Lee Enfield rifles (they'd probably also do as WW2 Brits from Burma or similar). |
The British were wearing the much smaller jungle hat rather than slouch hat by 1950 in Malaya. They wore standard WW2-type jungle fatigues, cut-down equipment with ammo pouches worn low on the hip and had long canvas boots rather than gaitors and ankle boots. Aussie Owen guns and the short jungle version of the SMLE were used.
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@Jimmy: I think the Brits used the standard battledress in Korea, as the climate was colder. I think the tropical uniform was only employed in jungle environments, but it's kind of hard to tell from black and white photos |
They arrived in the summer of 1950 dressed in WW2 jungle green and KD with the new jungle hat as worn in Malaya. As you say, battledress was substituted for the first winter along with 1943 cammo smock and over-trousers, but this proved inadequate for the 'kin freezing climate. US-style parkas and M43 uniforms were subsequently used along with khaki BD until a prototype version of what became the 1958 green combat dress was introduced for the second winter of the war.
The 1944 steel helmet was worn (kinda like a modern cycle racers helmet: swept back) together with blue berets for the infantry / green for 40 Commando RM.
Aussie, Canadian and NZ troops in the Commonwealth Division were dressed similarly, with the slouch hat and Australian tunic replacing the British jungle fatigues for the Anzacs. Khaki berets were worn by Canadians with maroon for Canadian airborne.
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Pre-Iraq War US infantry, updated
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20-11-2004 20:25
Terribly sorry about that chum, I always thought that ACK! was a yank way of showing hostility as in that comic strip "Cathy"...
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