"WW2 Soviet Puttees Color? " Topic
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| GARS1900 | 15 Aug 2018 1:39 p.m. PST |
I've been looking into the Soviet uniforms of early WW2. They seem to have used WW1-style puttees instead of jackboots a lot of the time. Oddly enough, I have heard that many puttees made out of black cloth were issued to Soviet troops. I find that odd; can anyone confirm if it was done? |
| wrgmr1 | 15 Aug 2018 3:15 p.m. PST |
Seems likely as they wore black boots. |
| Martin Rapier | 15 Aug 2018 11:45 p.m. PST |
Yes, black cloth was not unusual, but a lot of the time they were just khaki. Photos show lots of variation in tone. Some of them just look like cut up bits of blanket…. |
Marc33594  | 16 Aug 2018 5:50 a.m. PST |
From "The Soviet Soldier of World War Two" by Philippe Rio (an excellent source by the way): "The M.38 leather gaiters were common up to 1942. M1936 Obmotki puttees were made of brown, green or black wool then, during the course of the war, other colours appeared (grey and so on)." |
| GARS1900 | 17 Aug 2018 12:27 p.m. PST |
Interesting. Thanks for the help, folks. I wonder what prompted the use of black cloth? |
| Gerard Leman | 15 Nov 2018 3:04 p.m. PST |
Availability? The Nazis adopted brown shirts as uniforms because they were cheap and available in bulk. Sadly for history, German cloth merchants did not have a surplus of magenta-colored shirts in 1932. |
| J Womack 94 | 21 Nov 2018 1:10 p.m. PST |
Gerard: Yes,I think it would have been difficult to take them as seriously. Pinkshirted thugs just doesn't sound very intimidating. |
| Cuprum | 23 Nov 2018 4:37 p.m. PST |
Perhaps the black boots imitated? |
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