View Single Post
  #24  
Old 01-13-2009, 09:20 AM
B.T.'s Avatar
B.T. B.T. is offline
Registered Kraut
 
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Ruhrgebiet, Germany
Posts: 271
Default

@ pmulcahy11b: You are definitely right. Wearing colored armbands is really not the best of ideas, but it's a question of alternatives.

Armbands have been used on the Eastern front in WWII in winterwar. Both sides used those bands. The last winter uniforms of the Wehrmacht had buttons on their arms, to fix the "color of the day".

In Panama 1989/90 parts of the Panamese Forces were equipped with US-style BDUs. Some of the US-forces therefore fixed white armbands or handkerchiefs to their arms.

Well, not really that effective, I suppose.

The shape of the NVA steelhelmet was/is so unique, that it cannot be mistaken. Recognizing an East German soldier would therefore be no problem!
__________________
I'm from Germany ... PM me, if I was not correct. I don't want to upset anyone!

"IT'S A FREAKIN GAME, PEOPLE!"; Weswood, 5-12-2012
Reply With Quote