San Marco Marine impression

[NickG]

Here's my San Marco Marine impression! Nick

[NickG]

Close up!

San Marco Marine. Note British P'08 pattern Italian Marine web gear. Helmet is most likely a post war refurbished M33 as it has a web chin strap...

[Johnnie]

Nick,

Is that an Italian canteen? I have never seen one like it. Can you post some closeups of it in the canteen thread?

Thanks,
Johnnie

[Raffaello Carola]

Hello Nick,

thanks for sharing nice display.
cheers, Raffaello

[Paolo Marzetti]

Hi Nick,
I don't know that canteen. The jumper and the trousers, together with
the gas mask are good of the time. The M.33 steel helmet is a post-war
one and the Mills webbin' equipment is post-war.
Generally the San Marco landing forces of the Royal Italian Navy used an M.33 steel helmet grey-green colour with either a stencilled or decal crowned anchor on front.The issue canteen was the M.32 aluminium one either with
grey-green woollen cover or without cover.During WWII they used the M.25
grey Mills webbin' equipment,very different from the one shown.
As soon as I've time, I'll post a photo of the time showing the whole tropical
uniform & equipment.Not easy to get nowdays a complete webbin' equipment,
together with a backpack,a bayonet frog,an entrenching tool with issue webbin' cover,an original San Marco dagger, and the webbin' leggings.
During the fight in Tobruk, the most part used khaki cloth shorts instead of
long trousers.Ciao PaoloM