GebirgsjÃ¤ger at Crete

Boshman · 2013-03-07T17:09:43Z

I decided it would be good to have a dedicated thread for us gebirgsjÃ¤ger's as the Krauts at Crete thread is mostly FJ related waffle. So first topic of conversation; Wickelgamaschen! AKA gebirgsjÃ¤ger puttees. An item unique to the GJ, Originals are now silly money, Nice repro's complete with the proper buckles are available from Schuster.ru but ordering from them is such a hassle, having to do bank SWIFT transfers to random bank accounts in Latvia etc So instead I have opted for a cheap and easy alternative and brought Original ww2 dated Australian Puttees from Battledress&Bayonet for the paultry sum of Â£5.49 including shipping with payment via Paypal. Simples! [link]http://www.battledressandbayonet.com/20.html#[/link] They are a Grey-green colour rather than the Khaki of the British ones so should look ok and you will have to be looking very closely to notice the lack of buckles. I might have a bash at fabricating some buckles from aluminium myself as they are pretty simple.

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You would be better off getting Swiss mountain boots if you wanted all the nails in the soles. Bit of mud on the souls and you can barely see the nails anyway. If you really wanted them look for 'tricouni'. Produced from before WWII and used by civilian mountaineers and on the Swiss boots and still produced today to the original recipe. Probably not worth bothering though really.
I used to try to 'walk' boots in around the house. Sitting in them to watch TV and all sorts. Don't know if it helped as it always seemed to take me best part of six months to walk a new pair of boots in.