Did the Italians manufacture a desert cover for the M33? If yes, could someone post a wartime photograph showing one being worn? Thank you.
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look:
http://70.87.163.50/forums/showthrea...an+camo+covers
There's a theory here that these khaki covers were intended for all the helmets (M33s and M42s para) issued in North Africa, but the production has been completed on December 1942, when theAxis forces were just in Tunisia, so the issue of these covers has never begun because too late.
They all remained in the Magazzino Centrale Militare VF of Florence.. RC in a circle means 'registrato-controllato' and 57 is the size.The Littorio Fascio, is not always present on these covers.The khaki cloth is the same 'tela olonetta kaki' of the colonial series of the Italian tropical clothing issued to ALL the Italian armed forces overseas. Very after the war, in the '70s the entire lot available of these khaki covers (it is said two thousand)has been bought by a British company at the symbolic price of 100 Lire Italiane each in a public auction promoted by the Italian Army.Some people says they're not good. IMO they're good, even if never issued.In my collection I've two specimen of these covers,one size 56, without printed fascio, and another, size 57,with black printed fascio inside.Very hard to state why nowdays we've available only small sizes (55-56-57).Almost surely, the larger sizes (58-59-60) have been
lost or destroyed during the war, or collected among the rags of other depots
in Florence,after that.
Ciao PaoloM
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