M43 cap

captnenglish · Post by **captnenglish** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 2:33 pm

This is probably an obivous question, but when was the M43 field cap first issued?

timmy872 · Post by **timmy872** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 9:12 am

apparently it was in 1943 and part of a whole uniform manufactur stream lining attempt...

"Firstly, the M43 is derived from the uncommon M42 field cap. The wartime "M43" cap was simply the "M42" cap with the addition of a visor that was sized appoximately midway between the large visor of the "M40" tropical cap and the small visor of the Mountain cap (Bergmütze; which was used by Jäger, Gebirgsjäger, and Skijäger troops exclusively)"

http://www.lostbattalions.com/german33- ... EMCap.html

captnenglish · Post by **captnenglish** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 9:32 am

Thank you, that is what I thought, but couldn't confirm.