The History of Camping Gear: WW2 Sleeping Bags 

This was fantastic brother. Thank you.❤🎉

Thanks for the info regarding the 1944 woolen mummy bag Sarge. I acquired one here in the UK a few years ago. I've always wondered what the origins were. I'm not sure if there are any labels on it. I'll have to dig it out of the attic and check... 👍

No millitary geeking! Just gear! Lovely

14:27 Buck Island Lake, Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, 1983. I was thrilled to have successfully toted my 1943 US Army surplus mummy bag the five miles from trailhead to camp. We camped on massive granite boulders. Prior to bedding down I’d awed the adults in our party by building a one match log cabin fire that fed itself from tinder to fuel logs. We told ghost stories and even at age 11 I held my own. (It was my third year collecting and recording old radio shows and I did a mashup of :22 minute plots from Lights Out to Suspense, Inner Sanctum to Night Beat. Well sir the story time must’ve gotten to me because in the middle of the night I awakened to relieve myself only to discover I was tightly cocooned in that ‘43 mummy bag. Apparently I tore the thing to shreds from the inside out and my then-stepdad had to calm me down and untie/unzip me. Next morning our post card of a campsite looked like Stay Puffed Marshmallow Man engaged in a cage match with Pillsbury and the Michelin Man. To this day I must sleep with minimum one leg, knee down, outside the covers. (deep sigh) They don’t make ‘em like they used to. Neither the surplus bags nor the entertainment. 40 years later I guarantee you the boulders are the same.

I used an Army down sleeping bag in Boy Scouts in 1963. It was full zip and had eyelets for the cover like your wool mummy bag. I suspect it was Korean War surplus.

Very informative thank you

Good stuff again. Periscope Films has a 1943 AAF training film about a pilot down in arctic conditions who didn't pack his emergency gear. Toward the end of the second part he was snuggling down in his double bag. I guess they would have called him a Dilbert back then. Funny the one thing dad kept was his wool overcoat which he only needed after mustering out for home as in the South Pacific it wasn't needed. As far as I remember he had it until he passed away in 78.

Good job. I’m going to go back and catch up on the earlier videos!

I have some very old sleeping bags that I received from my father in law… I am wondering about them and don’t know where to turn. They look like the first ones you showed in this video.

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