Kit Layout...rights and wrongs

[2ad82recon]

OK i have finally got the last pieces of my field equipment from RAU at Malvern yesterday and now want to put it all together after studying various photos i have come to the conclusion that there is NO standard kit layout when at the "front".

So i need help fellas..i am putting together a Luftwaffe FD Grenadier impression and am armed with a K98..i have all the bits but now need to put it together.

any help appreciated please and pictures of assembly would be great.

Regards

LLoyd

[GR916/15/14]

Hi,

Have a look here...

http://www.mp44.nl/equipment.htm

Also look around the many living history group web-sites on the equipment page(es).

GR916
Der Erste Zug
etc etc

Not Luftwaffe but the kit layout will be basicaly the same...

Hope this helps,
Nathan

[GR916/15/14]

http://www.dererstezug.com/LandserItems.htm

http://www.gr916.co.uk/equipment.shtml

[John Wilson]

Well contrary to what you might have been told and regardless of what you have seen and heard, regs. were adhered to, so stop dreaming and get the kit right!

[Franz repper]

Well contrary to what you might have been told and regardless of what you have seen and heard, regs. were adhered to, so stop dreaming and get the kit right!

Oh Der spiess has spoken ,But the man speaks wise words there is a standard kit lay out OK my fiels is SS and SS Nord more to the point . But I think it was very much standard

Below Note all have mess kit , bread bag and water bottle to the right hand side

A unit of SS Nord moving to the Front note again a some what standard lay out

More of the same

It would help you if you got a copy of the Reibert manual for the Luffwaffe

PM I will send you a link to my seller

[KB Martinsen]

Any chance of giving me the link too Franz?

[Franz repper]

Any chance of giving me the link too Franz?

No !!!!!!!
other wise you will know as much as me

[2ad82recon]

Thanks guys thats exactly what i needed......

Franz..tell the secret then kamerad !!!!!!

and how common was the A frame use in combat ?

Regards

LLoyd

[Sheikh Al Stranghi]

For infantry, very common especially in 1941-1942. After that, a little less, but stilll many infantry units were issued them. For support/rear area units, not so much as they did not need them.

[Hans Gowert]

standard,

shovel and bayonet on the left, breadbag on the right- nuff said

[Zeugmeister]

Thanks guys thats exactly what i needed......

Franz..tell the secret then kamerad !!!!!!

and how common was the A frame use in combat ?
Regards

LLoyd

Hi Lloyd,

as a WL Field Division soldier, you can not use a A-frame, because the WL Y-strap Suspender has no double straps and no D-rings.
You can not connect a A-frame with the WL Y-strap Suspenders.

Cheers
Tom

[Casbah Rock]

suncream in the gas mask canister is a must for me but I don't think that is regulation item

[Hans Gowert]

toilet role for me

[Stigroadie]

toilet role for me

Now thats comedy!

[GD,obergrenadier]

Thanks guys thats exactly what i needed......

Franz..tell the secret then kamerad !!!!!!

and how common was the A frame use in combat ?
Regards

LLoyd

Hi Lloyd,

as a WL Field Division soldier, you can not use a A-frame, because the WL Y-strap Suspender has no double straps and no D-rings.
You can not connect a A-frame with the WL Y-strap Suspenders.

Cheers
Tom[/ I thought the ground pounders got the heers pattern y-sraps and the Airborn chaps got the plain ones? ps,pm me please I need to ask you a question about your boots. Dieter