Originally Posted by
Ninehostages
That wool WWII Army Battle Dress that the British were adamant would export to field conditions of the South of Italy .... didn't.
In the case of the 51st Highland Division, they arrived in Sicily in the same uniforms they had worn in the Western Desert, having come from Tunisia. They wore lightweight cotton shirts and pants (except for the pipers who were often kilted).
Two pipers in Sicily.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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