SELF MADE ITEMS IN THE FIELD

 

Ranger Supply Sergeant checking & preparing ammo before distribution - fixing M41 Fiber Containers onto Yukon Packboard (labels recreated by Sgt "Andrew S. Vilinsky") - Wooden box holding 25 M15 Smoke (WP) Handgrenades & M42 Fiber Containers (box recreated by Sgt "Andrew S.Vilinsky")

6th Cavalry Group personnel supplying and storing necessary ammo in defensive position - Wooden Boxes containing 25 MkII Fragmentation Handgrenades + M41 Fiber Containers each (recreated by Sgt "Andrew S.Vilinsky")

203d Engineer Combat Battalion (6th Engr Spec Bde) bringing more rifle ammo - Wooden Boxes containing 8-rd M1 Bandoleers (recreated by Sgt "Andrew S.Vilinsky")

Members of 5th Ranger Infantry Platoon proceeding on their way, somewhere in Normandy - they are wearing the paper Gas Detection Sleeve on their left upper arm (recreated by Sgt "Andrew S.Vilinsky")

A Company men (203d Engr Cbt Bn) with Explosive Ordnance, such as M1A1 Bangalore Torpedoes &Detonating Cord, Helmets are adorned with tactical unit markings (6th Engineer Special Brigade - Omaha Beach) used during D-Day (all recreated by Sgt "Andrew S.Vilinsky")

 

Miscellaneous front bumpers for 1/4 Ton 4x4 Trucks (aka Jeeps) - markings pertaining to specific units e.g

  • 8th US Army Air Force - 357th Fighter Group - 362d Fighter Squadron - 4th Vehicle

  • 104th Infantry Division- 413th Infantry Regiment - Medical Detachment - 25th Vehicle

  • XIXth Tactical Air Command (9th USAF) - Headquarters Detachment - 3d Vehicle

  • Third Army - 42d Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron - C Troop - 30th Vehicle

  • First Army - 5th Ranger Infantry Battalion - D Company - 2d Vehicle
(Front bumpers recreated by T/4 "Hank J.Cages", artwork recreated by Pvt "Roger M. Lohman" & Sgt "Andrew S.Vilinsky") 

 

D-Day, Omaha Beach, elements of D Company (5th Rngr Inf Bn) - Rangers subjected to devastating enemy fire, partly seeking shelter behind hedgehogs ... (beach obstacles recreated by French GI-44 Re-Enactment Ass)

XVIIIth Airborne Corps Liaison Officer,member of CIC Detachment (brassard recreated by Sgt "Andrew S.Vilinsky")

Geneva Convention Hood Cover used on 1/4 Ton 4x4 Truck i.e. JEEP for enhanced identification (recreated by Sgt "Andrew S.Vilinsky")

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