206thMPCo
Up above I asked Roque about the Combat Boots and he said he got
his in Africa. I wasn't ever in Italy so I didn't know what they did.
Talk about cold ask j3rd. The winter of '44 was one of the coldest in the
records and fighting in the Bulge was awful. If you took your boots off
they would freeze and you might never be able to get them back on. I
remember one instance where we got into a cellar where we could have
a fire but I had to have another guy unbutton my the "liberated" overcoat
I had on and with the web belt I had to be helped with that.
No debating your statements but I never saw a "Sam Brown" belt (as we called
them) like that for in all the time I was in. Everybody wore the Web Belts where
I was even the Brass and the AB troopers when I was TDY with them.
Sgtleo