I have left home but could someone please dress me!

[Jack]

Right, here goes.

 

I need to get dressed for this summers shows ( no wise cracks Degsy, Karoshi or anyone else for that matter :twisted: ).

 

So I will be driving my GMC so what do I need to wear that will be relevant to that?

 

I would like to add at this stage that whatever happens I want to include a side arm.............its a childhood thing, ok!

 

Cheers.

 

 

Jack.

[Degsy]

Brass helmet, dark blue tunic and trousers and a fire axe on your belt. :lol:

[Jack]

Brass helmet, dark blue tunic and trousers and a fire axe on your belt. :lol:

 

 

I just bloomin well knew it :roll: :twisted: :evil:

[Karoshi]

Degsy's just having a laugh with you, .............the helmet would have been subdued in wartime.

 

Told you already, HBT coveralls, HBT cap or wool beanie, Buckles (maybe) rough outs and leggings.

[Guest matt]

And an M1 Carbine as a sidearm......

 

Matt.

[Jack]

Degsy's just having a laugh with you, .............the helmet would have been subdued in wartime.

 

Told you already, HBT coveralls, HBT cap or wool beanie, Buckles (maybe) rough outs and leggings.

 

Yeah, but you keep changing your mind :shock: mustards, pinks, mini skirts :cry:

[Degsy]

Ooooh,you didn't say anything about after you'd painted it green, I thought you were going to play with water.

You must decide what unit you are going to mark the truck to before you make a final decision on clothing, if you go for mustards and an M41 jacket with roughout boots you can cover a vast range of units just with a change of badging.

 

 

Cheers

Degsy

[Jack]

Ooooh,you didn't say anything about after you'd painted it green, I thought you were going to play with water.

You must decide what unit you are going to mark the truck to before you make a final decision on clothing, if you go for mustards and an M41 jacket with roughout boots you can cover a vast range of units just with a change of badging.

 

 

Cheers

Degsy

 

 

Good point Degsy.

 

The local 'big house' was home to the Pioneer Cor so thats what I would like it badged up with.

 

............as long as I can have .45 on my hip

[Rlangham]

You can get a real good Colt .45 BB gun for about £30, i've got one in black somewhere, looks the part and it's great fun!

[Karoshi]

You must decide what unit you are going to mark the truck to before.......

 

Back to where we started !

 

Jack "broadly" pistols is occifers. Occifers didn't drive trucks....."usually". Go with the shoulder arm, 41's and mustard's. Or 43 and mustard's for later period.

 

Mustard's are wool based so go with HBT's for summer comfort, or a full 43 outfit, being cotton

 

Decide if the Red Ball features in your plans? Or just obliterate the vehicle marking with burlap, as was common with forward units. (spys you know)

[Degsy]

Easy to get confused isn't it , I started with mustards, 41 Jacket,roughout boots and leggings but have since acquired pretty much everything.Once the troops got into combat they used whatever they could acquire and that they were happy with. Pistols were at the top of the list of wants and

many EM's and Non -Coms carried them although probably not in Georgies 3rd Army.

 

 

 

 

Regards

Degsy

[Jack]

Ok, I hear you Karoshi but could you change the rules so I can wear one on my hip! 8)

 

 

Redball............is there something i should know?

 

So where do I get all of this clothing from and how bloomin much is this going to cost me?

[Degsy]

Forgot to suggest in the previous post that you get Soldier of Fortune

Re-enactors Catalogue, costs £3 but worth it and I think you can get a refund when you order.

I was in their warehouse last week buying boots,the cheaper range they are doing now seem quite good.

It is nice to have original stuff but it is not that easy to get, S-O-F stuff is pretty accurate and they have a good range in stock.

Jack I'd recommend you to just get a basic uniform to start and then look

around at the shows and add to it as items/cash becomes available.

 

 

.Cheers

Degsy

[Karoshi]

......could you change the rules so I can wear one on my hip!

 

Well if you're going to change the rules to be Pioneer Corps in the US army...nobodies even going to notice the pistol.

[Degsy]

Red Ball, how can I put this, you're the wrong colour and it's not PC anymore to do a B&W minstrel job. Red Ball was QM, QM was black.

[Jessie The Jeep]

Would you believe me if i said that the Black & White Minstrel Show was the first TV program my parents watched on a COLOUR TV!!!!!!

 

Steve

[Jack]

Would you believe me if i said that the Black & White Minstrel Show was the first TV program my parents watched on a COLOUR TV!!!!!!

 

Steve

 

No someone is pulling my leg :shock:

[Jessie The Jeep]

It is actually true Jack, that WAS their first colour TV program!

 

Steve

[Karoshi]

What truck you getting then Jack, for this Pioneer thing?

[Jack]

What truck you getting then Jack, for this Pioneer thing?

 

Was thinking about a Transit 8)

[Karoshi]

Red Ball, how can I put this, you're the wrong colour and it's not PC anymore to do a B&W minstrel job. Red Ball was QM, QM was black.

 

Can I just quote a passage from that very informative and good read "The Road to Victory" by D.P.Colley:

 

........Although three-fourths of Red Ball drivers were black, and the majority of the quartermaster truck companies in the ETO were manned by blacks, African American troops represented less than 10% of all military personnel in WW2

 

We're talking here 3/4th and Majority. Not 100% and Total.

 

Some specific companies, 514th for instance, was an all black outfit, however;

 

Colley, Road to Victory again:

 

Thousands of white infantrymen were pouring into France during the late summer of 1944. before going into the lines, these men faced weeks in muddy, rainswept bivouacs in Normandy, where they trained incessantly and waited to "marry up" with their equipment. There was an alternative for some of these troops, for a few weeks at least. The army needed drivers for the Red Ball Express and asked for volunteers.

[Karoshi]

Was thinking about a Transit

 

It would be perhaps more appropriate for a British unit,..... like the Pioneer Corps

[Jack]

Was thinking about a Transit

 

It would be perhaps more appropriate for a British unit,..... like the Pioneer Corps

 

Nope, these guys were most certainly American.............

[Mark]

If you go pioneer corp Jack, will you be able to get a log on the truck :?:

[Degsy]

Hi Karoshi

I stand corrected, I've got the book but I was generalising and turning the key another notch or two, there is one thing in Jacks favour tho', from the pics I've seen he looks the right size for the dangling left leg from the open cab. :lol:

 

 

 

 

Cheers

Degsy