292nd Engineer Combat Battalion (New Member)

[Sir Gator]

Oct 1969 while in boot camp we did a week of mess duty in the chow hall before going to the rifle range, I was a server on the chow line, I wore for that week a white jacket and white trousers so I think these men were on k p or mess duty. if the army wore white while on that duty at that time. Of course if so I wonder why they didn't change uniform's for the photo Ralph

Here's a page from the 100th Infantry Division Pictorial Review showing guys on KP in white early in 1944. A little different with longer "coats", but a significant clue I think. There's also one I found from the 203d General Hospital in Paris in late 1944 showing KP staff posing.

 

Gary