The Story of The United States' World War II Paratrooper Uniforms 

I hated the hyperfocus on looks over function that infects the military. I would use my pockets to the dismay of my NCOs. When I became a NCO, I would still use my pockets.

Same things with woodland BDUs. I had garrison ones with pockets glued down and permanent creases.

Back when I was in the Marines, during the days of the BDU, we weren't allowed to use the one slot in the chest pocket. Instead, we wer told to put our pens inside our blouses clipped to the top of the material that had the button holes. We were also not really supposed to use the bottom pockets on our lbouses, not even in the field.

@@Riceball01 Yeah, we weren't allowed to have the pen top showing. I do remember some Marines going and getting the pockets sewn down and getting busted for "Unserviceable" uniforms. That said, with ALICE gear, you couldn't really put anything in the lower pockets anyway, as your belt went right over them. Years later I was a surplus dealer buying uniforms from my local USAF base from the individual airmen, and got burned several times because not only had the pockets been sewn down (which I could fix with a seam ripper after all) but the gussets were cut away so there was no pocket anymore, just a thing to sew patches on (Something the AF loves to do). It was not only allowed but encouraged by some commands.

We used the hell out of all our BDU pockets in the field (over 6 months a year) but in garrison we were neater. Of course, we were paratroopers.

I’d recommend to you to take them out and conserve. Make sure there are no Moles in there. It would be a shame to lose such a piece of history in such way.

Also document how he packed his uniform, the condition of everything, it would be very important. My grandfather had a similar situation from Korea, but many moth holes were in his uniform

@@kapitandemolka431 or he could just wear it, depends on the state of it of course, I have some WW2 stuff, bust mostly vietnam and korea and i wear them all the time

I would love if he did a gaming uniform video on the uniforms of the Russian military in the Battlefield game franchise, namely Battlefield 3 and 4, and possibly 2042

I too would like to see Uniform History break down how the Army distributed those style uniforms.

It wouldn't surprise me if they did. Regular infantry troops probably bartered with Airborned troops for their uniforms because the either though that they were cooler looking and/or better than what they were issued. It's not exactly unheard of for regular troops to want to look like more like elite troops thinking that because the elite troops were better, their and uniforms must be better too.

I want to say the jump boots were often obtained by regular infantry, when they could. Just don’t let the paratroops catch you and you’d have you a great pair of boots!

@@TitusCastiglione1503 So, I wore Cochran Paratrooper boots as an Artillery man in the Army and it was never an issue. In fact, we fought with Infantry troops anytime were in garrison at the same time, so boots were not an issue. Cochran boots were better with spit shine than the normal issue boots, so we wore them all the time.

@@FreeAmericaChannel was this during ww2 or post ww2? Cause, I’ve heard numerous historical books mention how paratroopers during ww2 were incredibly jealous of their distinctive unit items and would be highly irritated with normal troops who obtained such items such as paratrooper boots.

Do you mean the US in Japan or the Japanese soldiers?

America used helicopters instead of airborne assaults

The french used them in Algerian war 1954.62 They had a few in the indochina war but used mainly To evacuate wounded!