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[Gordon Craig]

sammlermws,

Those are superb pictures. Makes one mouth water with all those uniforms just out of reach!

Regards,

Gordon

[Guardian 5]

WOW!

So many firsts;

- First picture I've seen of the Saladin Armored Car in actual BGS livery, in color to boot!

- First picture I've seen of the gray-green and mussgrun bread bags in use side by side

- Great views of open BGS wall lockers -- color and black and white...

The MG42 series had me doing a double take; especially the the first one in the layfette / sustained fire tripod mode

Great stuff - lots to learn.

Thanks!

TJ


P.S. - Has anyone IDed the camouflaged rocket launcher or mortar yet?
The "bazooka" looks French or Belgian, the mortar, U.S. 81mm?

[ReinerMB42]

Rocket-Launcher

Hi Folks,

Thomas, the BGS used the "Blindicide" AT-Rocket-Launcher.

Best regards

Reiner

[chiffonnier]

great pictures sammlermws!
I think you can never ever post to much pics like these!
regards,
kees

[Arthur Spooner]

Thank you for showing sammlermws!
I really like the green color of the BGS uniform.
Are there also pictures with ribbon bars on the tunics?
Would be interesting.

Matthias.

[Gordon Craig]

Gentlemen,

A wiki link to the RL-83 Blindicide launcher.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RL-83_Blindicide

Regards,

Gordon

[Guardian 5]

Team,

My tanks to Reiner and Gordon for the information on the RL-83 Blindicide launcher.

All the best,
TJ

[Marksharky]

After looking at the photo of the rocket launcher, I couldn't help but notice the camo paint job. I wonder if this was standard or field applied........ was this type of camo paint job common on any other field gear?

[ReinerMB42]

Rocket Launcher camo

Mark,


this camo was anything but usual. Until in this Picture I´ve never seen such
a paint job on a BGS weapon.Normally they weren´t camouflaged.

Best regards

Reiner

[Marksharky]

I also noticed the photo of the two officers pulling another on the makeshift zeltbahn liter in the snow. You can see the use of some sort of paper or cloth under the helmet net for snow camo. I have seen this in quite a number of the older BGS photos from the 1950's and 1960's.

Does anyone have any more concrete information on this practice?

Here is a photo from 1968:

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[Marksharky]

Here is another photo of a Saladin Armored Car in BGS use:

Here is a link to the web page hosting the photo:
http://www.beim-alten-bgs.de/Zu_den_...t_dem_sw1.html

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[blake485]

Austrian post war gendarm field gear

thought people might like to see for a comparison to BGS and BW this is a set of post war Bundesgendarmerie field gear from the 60's

[darkhunter]

BGS Frankstein jacket

i found this one on ebay.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/WWI-German-F...80767489068576

[Nachrichten]

It's a repro LW field division smock/tunic.
Not BGS, although some of the material looks like BGS sumpftarn (the back panels). Perhaps it could have been made, in part, from BGS material, but I doubt it.

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[darkhunter]

frankstein jacket

I know the guy selling it claims it ww2 but it looks to mint and it looks mismatch, I know its a repro when i saw it i just it was interesting.