Blanket / sleeping bags

[stalder]

Messieurs
What kind of blankets did the legionnaires use?

Are there special models or could it be French, British or from the USA by chance?
Does anyone have more specific information about this?

Additionally also this question, Did the legionaries already use sleeping bags?

Does anyone know of any evidence of this?


Merci beaucoup pour votre aide

[can]

I've never seen a picture of one but they did have them although according a just repatriated prisioner from the Viet Minh after DBP Legionnaire Kemencei they didn't like them much. I read this in Douglas Porch's " The French Foreign Legion" P. 573 paragraph 2. I hope the scan is viewable. My computer skills are truly " bolt action" in an "autoloading" world

[topbreak]

Currently reading the book myself. I would suspect that US and British equipment would predominate. From what I've read, most operations, with the notable exception airborne operations and large sweeps, were short ranged and light weight. Any sleeping and camping equipment would be kept at base or with the vehicles.

[lew]

Blankets were de rigueur. Here's an example: French wool blanket

I don't know that sleeping bags were used in Incdochine, but the French copied the US WW2 mountain sleeping for use with the Chasseurs Alpins, who saw extensive service in North Africa. I had an issue Algerian-era sleeping bag that was the same material and thickness as the wool blanket, but had a center-mounted half-zipper and a semi-mummy hood. Moths got to that, unfortunately. It came with a light canvas overbag with acceptance stamps (1956-dated), but that had stiffened to the point of being beyond usable.