501st PIR Imp

Great effort -

Repaint the 501st "Diamond" on your helmet - Biggest pet peeve with 501st helmets - the symbol was a square turned on its side.

Keep up the great work!

Best,
Bill K.

Check out this link - scroll down about halfway - Check Mr. Bando's quote on the mistake in Band Of Brothers of having the 501st symbols shaped incorrectly. He also has several original helmet examples. Hope this helps!

www.101airborneww2.com/equipment2.html

Keep up the good work!
Best,
Bill K.

Its not the exact same, look at the snaps on yours and compare it to the one Noble posted, notice how yours is visible and his are not, all the ones I have seen the snaps are not visible when closed.

Yours has lift the dots which makes it wrong. You want the one with the snaps.

sorry that link is broken try this



i1237.photobucket.com/albums/ff470/airborneranger2010/rubberizedgasmask.jpg

If you would like more photos just ask

thank you 1marinediv I am eventually going to do a marine imp i have infantry rangers now airborne.

thanks again.
until next time..
Semper FI!!

haha i'm assuming i made point..
but hey i appreciate the help.

if you have any other comments just post em

thanks tom .. wooden blocks never crossed my mind for some reason.. thanks

What did you prove with your pic? Find me an original pic of a paratrooper or infantry soldier with the lift the dot gas mask bag and I'll give you the 3 I own.

Please see the link marnepuppy posted: www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t1715.html

Just because you bought it from a collector whos daddy was in The War doesn't mean squat. I've bought quite a few things and been given even more from the veterans themselves who swore up and down what they just gave me was "Issued in 1943!", when what they were giving me was either A: something from the 80s or B: some old camping stuff. He said-she said evidence does nothing to prove your point...neither does a halfway link from ebay (you miss the sarcasm mr.Puppy poured out, apparently)

The correct gas mask bag will have FOUR (4) hidden snaps (like what is on a pair of childrens jeans, or Vietnam/later shelter halves. It will also say "ARMY ASSAULT GAS MASK", where your's says "ARMY COMBAT SERVICE GAS MASK". Yea it is made from roughly the same material, probably the same makers, and made in WWII, but it was not ever issued, used, carried, especially by the 501st, 2nd, 6th, 5th, etc PIRs. No one has found any evidence of them being issued at all, anywhere.

Yes, I would LOVE more photos of THEM BEING USED IN WWII. I can find pics of them taken last week in someone's Mom's basement...find me one in England 44 or France 44.

Modern photo of correctM7 Gas Mask bag
i54.photobucket.com/albums/g119/geordiemurphy/equipment/P1010538.jpg

Real M7s in WWII:

www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/g40000/g45715.jpg

www.militaryfactory.com/smallarms/imgs/bazooka_2.jpg

www.owensarchive.com/images/uploads/World%20War%202/101_dday.jpg

users.skynet.be/jeeper/herring1.jpg

users.skynet.be/jeeper/lomell1.jpg

users.skynet.be/jeeper/Aco.jpg

users.skynet.be/jeeper/greene1.jpg

www.ww2rangerseco.com/Weymouth@Rgrs_02.gif

www.ww2rangerseco.com/grande-bretagne_018.jpg

www.wwiisupply.com/loading.jpg

www.wwiisupply.com/aco.jpg

img.photobucket.com/albums/v464/ChallengeBlue/82d%20Museum%20Archives/england1.jpg

No one is going to repro it because there is no need to repro it. I can go buy more of those like you have for 6 dollars each tomorrow (too long of a drive tonight), there are tons of originals of those around and they weren't used in the war, so why repro them?

If you feel like you got ripped off, sorry. Put it on ebay and sell it to another reenactor, they buy them up like hot cakes. However, an educated living historian will move it along and strive to be as correct as possible. With that gas mask bag that is simply not possible...not even close....sorry.


Anything else you want to argue, or would you like help?

Charlie