Load Bearing Gear

[B.T.]

I tried to picture some of my belongings.
You can see the older-style "Koppel" with one of the metal-loops fixed, I've mentioned earlier. Another lies near the belt and shows the opposite side.

The bayonet is an AK-bayonet of the NVA, web straps are missing.

The other knife is the ACK (=Advanced Combat Knife), IRL intended as the new fighting knife of the Bundeswehr, prior to German reunification. The bayonet-frog (?) of the ACK is intended to be looped on the Koppel, but it has bracelets, allowing the scabbard to be fastened to older US pistol belts with eyelets. The frog clamps to the scabbard and can be removed to join knife and scabbard. They then can be used as a wire-cutter.

The Stanag-mag is from an airsoft M4 and is added to compare the size of the other items, just as the BIC-lighter is.

[ArmySGT.]

@ B.T.

Would it help if you did searches for the items in their native Deutsch instead of the American or British names for such items?

Maybe you can atleast turn up a forum of re-enactors that can help you out.

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by B.T.

The bayonet-frog (?)

The English equivalent would be "lug."

[StainlessSteelCynic]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

The English equivalent would be "lug."

Not trying to be picky but from what I remember the "frog" is the cloth part that is used to attach the scabbard to the belt. The word "lug" implies the attachment point for the bayonet onto the rifle.

[B.T.]

Originally Posted by StainlessSteelCynic

Not trying to be picky but from what I remember the "frog" is the cloth part that is used to attach the scabbard to the belt. The word "lug" implies the attachment point for the bayonet onto the rifle.

That's exactly what I've read. The bayonet frog can be made from leather or webbing, but I thought of the loop-thingie, that holds the scabbard on the webbing/belt. I always thought a "bayonet lug" was part of the rifle, where the bayonet is fixed

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by StainlessSteelCynic

Not trying to be picky but from what I remember the "frog" is the cloth part that is used to attach the scabbard to the belt. The word "lug" implies the attachment point for the bayonet onto the rifle.

I apologize; I've never heard the term "frog" used with a bayonet. The bayonets we had used a metal clip which was hinged at the scabbard.

[StainlessSteelCynic]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

I apologize; I've never heard the term "frog" used with a bayonet. The bayonets we had used a metal clip which was hinged at the scabbard.

Hey Paul, no apology necessary
The word "frog" seems to be peculiarly European. I used to think it was limited only to British and British-influenced armies (e.g. the Australian Army) but it appears to be a little more widespread.
So basically, this forum has again given me new information

[Legbreaker]

From dictionary .com
frog
noun
1. an ornamental fastening for the front of a coat, consisting of a button and a loop through which it passes.
2. a sheath suspended from a belt and supporting a scabbard.
Origin:
1710–20; perhaps < Portuguese froco < Latin floccus flock

[B.T.]

Originally Posted by StainlessSteelCynic

Hey Paul, no apology necessary
The word "frog" seems to be peculiarly European. I used to think it was limited only to British and British-influenced armies (e.g. the Australian Army) but it appears to be a little more widespread.
So basically, this forum has again given me new information

Learn a little every day

I fround the term in the book:
Wade Krawczyk: German Army Uniforms of World War II. In Colour Photographs; London 1995, Published by Windrow & Greene

I should have been suspicious: They say "coloured" in the title

Note for myself: If they have "colour" in the title, they use "British English".