| This impression is of an SS soldier with the rank of "man" (private) in the spring of 1944. He is wearing an M42 tunic with M42 Keilhosen (trousers), M42 smock - plane tree no.5 print, spring side out, M40 steel helmet, Knobelbecher (jackboots), Leather "Y" straps, K98 ammo pouches, M24 stick grenade, Kar 98k rifle, early model entrenching tool, bayonet, M31 bread bag, M31 mess kit, M31 canteen, M38 gasmask canister with attached gas cape pouch. |