Fallschirmjager medic backpack?

[giorgios]

From crete greece...am told is a gerry wwii para medic pack...i show to the equipment forum..many views but didnt come with an opinion yet...!!!

[Mons1944]

fallschirmjager sanitater

mauvaise manip

[giorgios]

mauvaise manip

What we see here?

[SkaraBrae]

I don't think that piece is FJ, medical, or German.

[giorgios]

I don't think that piece is FJ, medical, or German.

Oh ok..thanks...i though german because the metal hardware is german...

[SkaraBrae]

Oh ok..thanks...i though german because the metal hardware is german...

Or Swiss.

[Willi Z.]

The photo of the medical drop canister presents the medical gear used by FJs. We know they had bags and rucks to carry in the field. For obvious reasons.

The piece presented here is like a suitcase with shoulder straps. Wooden frame and shelves. Who would wear such a piece in the field? And especially an airborne formation?

Any markings? Unlikely.

[giorgios]

The photo of the medical drop canister presents the medical gear used by FJs. We know they had bags and rucks to carry in the field. For obvious reasons.

The piece presented here is like a suitcase with shoulder straps. Wooden frame and shelves. Who would wear such a piece in the field? And especially an airborne formation?

Any markings? Unlikely.

no wood..is some short of hard wedding

[Willi Z.]

Ok......still a hard large box.

[giorgios]

Ok......still a hard large box.

Yes...its got some markings also...

[giorgios]

Ok......still a hard large box.

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[Willi Z.]

Do you still think it is a FJ medic's box, an item which would be delivered on an airborne landing and carried in the field? When we know which bags and rucksacks they used?

[giorgios]

Do you still think it is a FJ medic's box, an item which would be delivered on an airborne landing and carried in the field? When we know which bags and rucksacks they used?

No...we just talk here abt the item bc we dont know what it is...

[giorgios]

Okay...it is an Italian possibly para WWII medical bagpack..i surf the net & found very simular packs...now the question is why german hardware on mine?? Well..maybe captured repaired & reused by the germans...who knows...? The east Crete was under Italian occupation...

[Ironcrown]

After 8th September 1943 the Wehrmacht captured large stocks of italian equipments that were reissued where and when necessary. Some where modified or adapted (mess kits were repainted in Feldgrau for example). So it's possible that this item was captured by the germans, modified and reused by them.