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The Pattern 1944 Web Equipment

The Pattern 1944 Web Equipment

Paperback

World War II

ISBN10: 1474539289
ISBN13: 9781474539289
Publisher: Naval & Military Press
Published: Feb 7 2024
Pages: 44
Weight: 0.12
Height: 0.12 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

This Pattern had its origins in two requirements for lighter patterns of web equipment, one for temperate zones, the other tropical. The result appears to have been a convergence of these designs. In 1945, the course of the War changed, Germany collapsing more suddenly than was expected, leaving a war in the Far East. The newly designed pattern was then pressed into service for that campaign, which was envisaged as lasting until 1946. Pattern 1944 therefore became a theatre issue, for units serving in the Far East. It also doubled in the role of a unit specific Pattern, being routinely worn by Airborne troops and the Gurkhas, often in temperate zones. All this makes Pattern 1944 W.E. rather different to other Patterns, before or since.

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