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Quoted: Well, I am sitting here with a copy of "Uniformen der Voksarmee 1956-1986" in my hands courtesy the Boston Library and my lovely librarin girlfriend in an attempt to start piecing together a proper East German field uniform to go along with the E German AKM w/folder stock that I am building up.
However, since I don't read German, and there have to be more sources out there, can anyone point out some websites or books that are good resources on East German Field unifroms, specifically the "rain camo" era taht would be appropriate for use with the poly stocked AKM?
ANY help or info or leads or anything at all you can tell me would be VERY helpful- I simply can't find a lot of info on this stuff!
Thanks,
Dawg
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Oh ... Ok Dawg ... now I get it ...
Your "cutie" has a "thing" for the uniform and you want to make sure you get it right ?
Hmmmmm .... You could send her here to me .... or ....................... ...
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She is very interested in the uniform, but not in *that* way!
Man, that is just creepy!
Actually the original goal was to get a unifrom together along with the rifle and take some staged photographs for the AK photo contest thread (civilain car ebing searched at Chekpoint Charlie or soemthing like that), but obviously that didn't happen thanks to GT recievers being on backorder forever and a day.
At this point, E German surplus is resonably priced and I just tought it would be fun to have the proer militaria to go along with the rifle. I already have the raindorp pants and shirt, some pouches, a belt, combat pack, and have a line on the boots and a helmet. I just want to know I am getting the appropriate stuff so it doesn't look liek a mish-mash of uniforms.
As for the /gf, this is a girl who wanted to see all the surplus load bearing gear to understand the 'why' and 'how' of it. She can tell you the difference between an LBV, LBE, and Hellcat and all the reasons you would choose one over another, AND she knew what an LBV was before I even brought it out because she ad read about it in "Love my rifle more than you." She is a smart cookie. Researching the E German stuff gives her something to do at the library when no one is asking questions, which is about 75% of the day. She loves researching stuff and can get access to all sorts of rare and non-circulation books (like the Volksarmee one- it is not a lending book, but she can get it as a libaray research book) so I figured I might as well take advantage of it and get the whole uniform together. If nothing else I'll have a bitchin haloween costume come October!