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Originally Posted by sglancy12
As for real logistical information, I think the best place to look would be at the Weremacht of WWII. There's an institution that was hard pressed to provide ammo, much less uniforms. There might be lessons there we could apply to our alternate history.
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Good call. I look at the late war Wermacht a lot for ideas about what late-Twilight War outfits might look like.
The German army simplified its basic, standard issue army combat fatigues late in the war. By all accounts, the "new" uniforms were simpler, less comfortable, and generally less well liked by those forced to wear them.*
In the T2KU, I suppose with lots of little factories scattered about Germany and NATO-occupied Poland, there would be a great variety of relatively simple replacement gear items- perhaps sage-green [simplified] BDUs from one factory, OD BDUs from another, simple cammo BDUs from yet a third. Mix in a few less worn-out, original cut and cammo BDUs and late war units would present a very motley appearance indeed.
*On the other hand, the Wermacht and Waffen SS wore a dizzying array of different cut, color, and camouflage uniforms throughout the war, right up until the bitter end. The German military was guilty of producing lots of small batches of different, complex, hi-tech options in the same category of weapon/equipment instead of focussing on a couple of simple, tried-and-true designs and producing them in large numbers. The Russians took the opposite tack. I'm not sure that I agree but a couple of military historians have argued that if the Germans had just focussed on producing more late-model Panzer IVs instead of relatively small production runs of Tigers (I & II), Panthers, Jagdpanzer IVs, Jagdpanthers, Jagdtigers, Elefants, Brumbars, etc., they could have won the war on the eastern front.