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Unread 12-13-2012, 11:53 PM
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Here s an interesting picture. I read somewhere, i belive it was one of Steven Ambrose'e books, but i could be wrong, that some units in Normandy, Paratroopers & Rangers, used Marine Camo. That was they only instance i ever saw mentioning that fact over the years and i never saw any photos until the other day, while perusing a WWII themed site on FaceBook, i stumbled across this picure and low and behold i had my first proof of Marine camo in the ETO. Pretty neat stuff. The caption mentioned a regular Army unit meeting up with a Para unit over a dead Germans body.



FYI - It was only used breifly as most allied units shot at any unit wearing camo on sight as they thought they were an Waffen SS outfit.
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Sgt Saunders wore the marine cammo cover on his helmet in !COMBAT! =)
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Sgt Saunders wore the marine cammo cover on his helmet in !COMBAT! =)
LOL that was a TV Show, and a damn good one for its day.

But have you ever heard of them used in the way i mentioned above?
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The guys pictures are 82nd AB. However, I know that the Rangers on D-day wore the camo. They stopped because they were mistakenly IDed as Germans by other friendlies.
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