Jovan
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That sure didn't look good to me.SamMarlowPI said:i said looked, not was...
That sure didn't look good to me.SamMarlowPI said:i said looked, not was...
Jovan said:That sure didn't look good to me.
Looked like a movie still to me.Jovan said:That sure didn't look good to me.
MrBern said:No prob.
I do recall reading that some Rangers were issued Jumpboots.
Most soldiers hated those gaiters & tried to get better boots when possible.
I beleive
The Doublebuckle boots look good, but didnt really impress the paratroops.
The jumpboots are very comfortable.
Oh, some soldiers were known to cut down their gaiters.
MrBern said:Looked like a movie still to me.
SamMarlowPI said:i do like the jumpboots...my only problem would be looking like a punker wearing those boots on a daily basis, which i really wouldn't do anyway...did the paratroopers and reguar infantry tuck their pant legs into the boot or was there some other way?
It was, from Saving Private Ryan. Pretty accurate movie.MrBern said:Looked like a movie still to me.
Jovan said:I was just messing around with you anyway. Didn't mean to come off as a stereotypical offended-by-everything-liberal.
Jovan said:It was, from Saving Private Ryan. Pretty accurate movie.
Mr. 'H' said:Really? Have you got the link?
SamMarlowPI said:http://www.backintime.com/moviereviews/savingryan/
another mentions the liklihood of P-47s being used for ground support rather than P-51s that late in the war...
Mr. 'H' said:Really? Have you got the link?
thunderw21 said:Meh, I wouldn't trust that site. SPR did have many mistakes, but that site isn't a good one for explaining them.
As for the writer's problem with the chinstraps, yes, they really hooked them back around the helmet. Actually you rarely see chinstraps hooked under the chin in original photographs. If you look at the photos I posted earlier, none of the soldiers have their chinstraps hooked under the chin (except for the paratroopers before a jump), even in the third one that was taken from a combat zone. The author of that site doesn't really know what he's talking about.
As for the P-47s or P-51s argument, P-47s were more often used for strike missions but the possibility of P-51 being used for a strike is still there. P-51s were used in the strike role and right after D-Day you used whatever was at your disposal to get the job done. By this time in the war the Luftwaffe in northern France was sorely hurting and the need for a large number of fighters over Normandy was small.