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US Army Combat Equipments 1910–88 Gordon Rottman | ||||||||||||
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Cena okładkowa: 9.99 GBP
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| Whether referred to as web gear, TE-21, TA50, LBE or LCE, the American soldier’s individual combat equipment was seldom praised - except by its developers. Nevertheless, it has always been, and will continue to be an essential part of the fighting man’s burden. To say that a soldier’s web gear (the most common soldier’s term for it from World War I to the present) is close to him is an understatement. It has long been a precept that while he is in the field, if a soldier is not actually wearing his gear, it had better be within arm’s reach. A combat soldier withdrawn to the rear can feel quite naked without his gear - his attitude now is very different from his reaction during the first days in basic training, when staring down at a confusing tangle of belts, straps, pouches, and unknown objects, while the drill sergeant announced, ’I’m gonna show ya all how to put this junk together...it’s gonna be part of ya!’ With the aid of plenty of contemporary photographs, diagrams, and eight full page colour plates by Osprey veteran Ron Volstad, Gordon Rottman’s text unearths a wealth of information on the changing nature of US combat equipments from 1910-1988. | ||||||||||||