Gusy I heard some years back while we had discussion in equipment forum that white socks with rigs ( in this case blue rings ) were issued to LW persoel ( spcialy for flying personel ) ; is that true ? If so has anybody some examples to show and how much potentaily such socks would be worth ( I guys much harder to find than standart grey socks ) ? Thanks in advance guys.
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Never heard of it ...
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Flight members wore the blue/grey socks with white rings IMO.
I've once seen white wool socks LBA marked, but they had no rings, maybe for tropical use ? .. for the white tunic ?
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Here are the socks I'm writing about. I've got from few year back ( about 6 or 7 ). Got it together with some other stuff in one big lot straight from Germany. As you can see thsoe definately were used ; one have blood stains on it ( somebody was hurt in foot ) and repair in place were hole causing the wound to the foot was placed. Matbe those photos will help you in saying something more about them. Construction is very same as standart army socks. Did anybody seen other like those ?Comment
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Realy nobody seen something like that or had something like that in their collections ? C'mon guys !Comment
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So guys what would be your guess about those white socks ? Tropical area socks for Luft troops ( pilots )?Comment
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Maybe they're navy, white and blue .., you've asked in that forum ?
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Common style of gym socks into the 1970's/early 1980's. Maybe they were issued for training/sports.Comment
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Construction is typical wartime ( made of 2 separate parts and later, at last stage of production put together as one sock with closed lower top) so definately not 70/80thies made socks ( those would be made in modern way with one piece).Originally posted by juvatwad View PostComment
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I didn't say these were modern. I said this STYLE was commonly used into the 1980's for sports, gym, etc, so maybe their use in the 1940's was the same.Comment
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