This week I made two additions to the war room. One was a cheap E-bay self-assembly shelving unit. The second was a "bit more expensive" and a major purchase for me: A Feldgrau wrapper with white-piped insignia. I have only seen a couple of them previously - one of which is the reed green HBT wrapper featured in Pruett and Edwards volume 1. Naturally I consulted both Bob Edwards and Mike Pruett prior to making the purchase. The likely wearer would have been in a Panzergrenadier SPW equipped unit which never made the switch to meadow green Waffenfarbe. It is known, just as with black wrappers, that it was a popular garment and many soldiers that had tenuous authorization for such wear took it upon themselves to "organize" wrappers for themselves. I set the newly arrived wrapper up on a torso form and did an initial display on the new shelving unit - which I'm not content with and will modify until I like it. In addition to being able to display a few more bits of my collection, the shelving unit allowed me to take a lot of my books out of the home office and move them into the war room. That eased congestion in the home office quite a bit. 
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