To counter the"Airborne boys" here, I am showing a few Tank Destroyer items I have in my little collection. :armata_PDT_25:

TD Ike jacket, Summer type uniform with overseas cap and Conrad Eyth's service shirt.

Erwin

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Wow what a story from Don!! But what a stupid LT.

To counter the"Airborne boys" here, I am showing a few Tank Destroyer items I have in my little collection.

 

TD Ike jacket, Summer type uniform with overseas cap and Conrad Eyth's service shirt.

Those are beauties!

Wow what a story from Don!! But what a stupid LT.

Ya really makes you think doesn't it? When you hear things like this, kind of knocks you back on your heels. Whoa! The realities of war!

It happened a lot; bad commands costing the lives of the men.

In some cases, it was due to the Lieutenant being new (I believe a lot of Officers getting KIA were Lieutenants) and unexperienced, but in other cases it was plain stupidity.

If you look at WWI, it was even worse, but then it was high command that didn't care about the lives of the soldiers.

All they wanted was to gain ground, no matter what the cost was.

Sickening.

I'm glad they got rid of him as soon as possible.

Heck, if I heard there were some enemy camping nearby, I'd call the artillery from here to Tokyo to blast them to the Walhalla!

Erwin

This one is my favorite and it's on its way to me a 79th ID 4 pocket engineers jacket

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Welcome Patrick. Received your reply regarding your request for membership into our forum. I look forward to hearing more from you and am delighted with your interest in combat engineers.

I hope you will enjoy your stay with us, for we have a lot of great people here.

Warmly,

Here's a part of a GI's uniform you don't often see in public:

...and something not always available to the troops when needed!

Dogdaddy

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This is an NCO's Combat Tunic worn by the Special Landing Forces of the Imperial Japanese Navy during WWII. This one is in near mint condition.

Dogdaddy

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Oooo-weee, unmentionables. Nope you don't see them around too often. Nice Japanese tunic. Yes it looks like it's in great condition.

Jim, you have all the good stuff!!

Chanbers: nice quote----ASK THE INFANTRY AND ASK THE DEAD.

Jim, you have all the good stuff!!

 

Hello Brooke-

It only seems that way. I can't afford to keep the really 'spiffy' pieces like that tunic. All my Axis stuff (like that tunic) gets consigned to a Militaria Dealer. The only uniforms I keep are my WWII Navy (in honor of my Dad) and one WWII Army dress uniform. The rest of my collection now consists of photos, posters, shoulder flashes and some 'Homefront' odds and ends. I live in a small 1-bedroom house now, which is crowded enough with a big dog and me already

Dogdaddy

I have to laugh because when I first started doing laundry in the 60s, my father still had a pair of WWII issue long johns and wore them until the elastic wore out. Who knew I was washing a collectors item!! He also had his army jacket that he wore hunting and when he worked with the dogs in the kennel. Eventually the zipper went on that.....

My Dad was like that too... When he came back from the war he still wore his Navy jacket and that included while he worked on the house..or on cars..or painting! I think you get the picture! The blue wool pullover and bell bottoms stayed in a white duffel bag in his closet until the moths got them, but I still have that old coat! It has repairs that you normally don't expect to see on clothing, such as two rips that have been repaired with Hot Glue. That was my Dad to a "T" and I still smile every time I look at that coat, for those little quirks were a part of his personality that we all loved...

Dogdaddy