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Post by jms on Nov 26, 2021 6:32:07 GMT -5
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Post by lew on Nov 26, 2021 11:43:10 GMT -5
Interesting. Didn't know there were German contractors making them. Thanks!
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Post by Kenneth on Nov 27, 2021 6:57:34 GMT -5
Super interesting website. It is surprising that a German company (presumably, being in Kaiserslautern) would be producing garments for the French. One would think that all the factories would have been destroyed during the war but obviously not. Some were still in operation up to the last minute. Also a little surprising since that town was within the American occupation zone.
The M47 suit is described as being a simplified version of the US M43 jacket. But the M43 jacket had no snaps, only buttons. It did have a lining, though, but not a button-in lining that the US M52 jacket had. The US M43 pants did not have cargo pockets and some of them were still in the system in the 1960s, because I was issued a pair (unit clothing). It's also interesting that the US field jacket, officially a "coat", retained insert skirt pockets as long as it was on issue, right through the camo versions.
I'm pretty sure all the French jackets had detachable hoods like the US M43 jacket (or is it an M44 jacket?). I have seen a hood for the camo jump jacket as well as for the later M64 jacket. Don't know how widely used they were.
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Post by can on Nov 27, 2021 15:22:25 GMT -5
I have one made by Nantes. I wear it often. Mine has no hood or provision for it. It's also a version that was made in the '60's
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Post by Kenneth on Nov 27, 2021 17:31:52 GMT -5
As it happens, La Tranchée has the mountain version of the M47 (not the M47/52) listed now. The differences are few. There is apparently a button-over flap beneath the front, like on WWII HBT fatigue jackets, and a tab to button across the front of the collar when closed and turned up. There is a hood attached with buttons. There was also a mountain version of the M64 pattern combat jackets, along with numerous other variations over the years. More surprisingly, they also have the so-called lightened M47 jackets (no lower pockets), the version without the reinforcing on the shoulders.
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