SOS Reproduction Items

Field Gear / Equipment

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Gas Brassard, Fabric, Normandy Invasion

Reproduction fabric paratrooper/ infantry gas brassard. $16.00 each. Made out of durable painted canvas, this reproduction brassard will outlast all other reproductions. The original gas brassards were made out of paper like the ones we feature below, but these economical versions will look correct and outlast paper by far! Correct color paint to represent the material that would change color in the presence of harmful gasses, and a correct cotton HBT webbing loop, SOS brassards are the most authentic in shape and materials. The owner of SOS wore a fabric one around everywhere he went 4 days on a '41 field jacket. That same brassard is in the last picture above. Slight wear where the creases were, this will look "original" for quite a long time. We feel this brassard is the best value, because you won't have to buy one every time you do a D-Day event or demonstration! Look at the pictures and you be the judge. It is hard to tell it is fabric and not paper except if you touch it or put your nose against it. Fits on the right arm above the elbow, held in place by the jacket epaulet. British and U.S. Infantry units and paratroopers wore these for the Normandy invasion, 6 June, 1944. No D-Day impression is correct without one!

Gas Brassard, Paper, Normandy Invasion

Reproduction paratrooper/ infantry gas brassard. $10.00 each. Made out of heavy paper, correct color latex paint to represent the original material that would change color in the presence of harmful gasses. Real museum quality reproduction. Made exactly like the originals, these are really good for one reenacting event. They will shred right up exactly like the originals and if you get them wet coming out of a landing craft, they will really start to get rough! However, if you want true authenticity, and see what the real thing looked like before and after the battle, this is the one you want.

Vintage Camouflage Parachute Scarves. $8.00 each. Made out of real nylon parachute pannels. Each section is about 45" by 25" triangular, great looking scarves for airborne impressions. Can't verify these are wartime dates, but the stamp we found is in the second picture. Cut without hems, will fray slightly, really comfortable around your neck to protect chaffing from the jumpsuit collar. Add a very real item to your impression!

First-Aid Pouches, waterproof, invasion

Reproduction First-Aid Pouches

Reproduction paratrooper first-aid pouches $10.99 each. Ties to your web gear, or to your helmet netting. The HBT ties are 18" long, 3/4" wide 100% cotton webbing. The body is khaki cotton, with the "FIRST AID" stamped in waterproof ink the middle like the originals. No medical items inside these, made to resemble the bandage box. These insides won't crush, and won't get soft on you even if it gets wet. This is the best quality and price for a necessary airborne item! Even with shipping, it is way under the price of the competition and you will be impressed with our quality. Chances are- even if you bought the "competition" you might still be buying an SOS first-aid pouch anyway. These pictures are true to life, but to be sure we took some in different light. The first and second are with flash, then without. The middle two are outside, in direct sunlight with a brand new At The Front jump suit. The second to last photo is indoors, against the same suit as in the outdoor pictures. Due to the dye lots of fabric, slight variations may occur, but trust the fact that we take great pains to make them right. We have seen originals, and our are really as close as it can get!

Repro First-Aid Pouches with extra-long webbing

Reproduction paratrooper first-aid pouches, extra long webbing. $11.99 each. Ties to your leg, around your jump boot or your arm. The ties on these are 24" long, 3/4" cotton webbing. These ties are a full six inches longer than the ones above. Same great quality aid pouch, and come in both regular reproduction, and original bandages inside.

Repro First-Aid Pouches made empty and open

Reproduction paratrooper first-aid pouches, empty and open. $9.99 each. You put your own material inside. Same aid pouches as our normal reproductions, but now made open and un-sealed. You need an iron and scissors to finish these off. Same 5" x 7" pouch, you can put in your own bandages, or reproduction materials. The ties on these are 18" long, 3/4" cotton webbing.

Directions for sealing your pouch: You will need scissors, iron, and ironing board. Put iron on full heat, and turn the steam off. Make sure iron is at full temperature. Fill aid pouch with your contents but DO NOT OVERFILL. Make sure you can lay the front and back shut flat against the ironing board with at least 3/4 to 1 inch to spare. Iron quickly over the surface of the aid pouch opening no more than 2 passes, which equals only about a 1-2 second pass each. Too much heat will melt the sealer completely off, and it will not stick together. Once sides are sealed shut, pick it up quickly and blow on it to cool it off, keeping the sides pressed together with your fingers as it cools off. Once it is cool and fully sealed shut, trim with scissors leaving about 1/2" glued together. Match the trimming with the other side of the pouch. We leave the "bottom" of the aid pouch open so that if you mess it up a bit no one will notice! A more detailed copy of these instructions will come with the first-aid pouch. It should go without saying, but we will anyway... If you do not feel competent, capable, or at all qualified to fill your own pouch, send the materials you wish to put in it to us and we will do it for you, charging only the regular price for the reproduction aid pouch. We do not wish to see you scalded or maimed in any way. We need all the living-historians and reenactors we can get.

Binocular Straps, Replacement

Reproduction Binocular Straps. Quality leather straps for use as replacements for those broken or worn out binocular straps. Over 40 inches long, come with both ends looped over and a blackened rivet for easy installation through cut slots in the strap. $10.00 each.

Lanyard, knife

Knife Lanyard. $2.50 each. Made from nylon parachute cord, both ends looped.

Rigger Pouch

WWII Reproduction Rigger Pouch. $14.00 each. Very durable rigger pouches made with excellent quality reproduction webbing. These are the same size as standard riggers made by others, but ours are slightly different to utilize this great material. The type is not uncommon to what was made during the war, we researched tons of sources and found that pouches of this type were made for all sorts of uses. The main body is sewn together from two pieces of wide khaki webbing with double stitching throughout, and the back is the same great quality reproduction khaki webbing sewn on for the belt loop. The brand-name Lift-the-Dot fastener finishes the job. In this rigger you can get one grenade, or four clips of blanks. Two or three of these are equivalent to a couple of bandoleers. Very durable, very functional, and priced right! Priced right- not made cheap!

505th Style Rigger Pouch

WWII Reproduction 505th Rigger Pouch. $17.00 each. Same durable rigger pouches as above, but made with parachute cord. As shown in Michel DeTrez's Book At The Point of No Return. If you do a 505th impression, a few of these will polish it off well. These were not known to be used in any other regiment, so if you are not 505th, I wouldn't buy one.

Luminous Discs

WWII Reproduction Phosphorescent Markers, pin back style. $8.00 each. These luminous discs are not made from any poisonous materials like the originals! They are aluminum discs with glow-in-the-dark material. Very durable, will stay glowing for hours after being exposed to a bright light for a few minutes. They can be used like the originals at reenactments for identification, marking trails or positions, or pinned on the collar of your M-42s or tied/pinned on to the helmet netting. The pin is securely fastened to the back, and has a clutch for keeping it on. Much more convenient than the tie on style.

WWII Reproduction Phosphorescent Markers. $8.00 each. These luminous discs are not made from any poisonous materials like the originals! They are aluminum discs with glow-in-the-dark material. Very durable, will stay glowing for hours after being exposed to a bright light for a few minutes. They can be used like the originals at reenactments for identification, marking trails or positions, or sewn on the collar of your M-42s or tied on to the helmet netting.

Helmet Scrim, Burlap 4-color

Burlap helmet scrim in four colors. You may not wish to put all this on one helmet, but what you see in the picture is what you get! Four colors, 2+ inch wide strips of over 50" each. Plenty to save for later. Remember, this scrim is not dirty, damp, crushed, or otherwise messed up. In other words, not just right yet! You have to do the work "ageing" it. $5.95 each set of 4 color burlap rolls.

Cover, Helmet, Winter Camouflage

Winter Snow Camouflage Helmet Cover. White cotton fabric, fully hemmed to prevent fraying all around. Modeled after a modern helmet cover for the M1 shell, it has the "beaver-tail" flaps that tuck under the steel, held in place by the liner. Three pleats on the top to take up extra fabric, this cover replicates the theater made covers that G.I.'s wore during the fighting in the winter of 1944-1945.

Leg Ties, Paratrooper Trousers

Olive drab cotton leg ties. Great leg-ties to replace the ones that the manufacturers put on the M-43 paratrooper pants. Strong webbing, but forgiving enough to help prevent your pants from blowing out. Look like the ones the 101st had sewn to their jump pants prior to the Market Garden drop. Each leg tie needs to be liberally sewn on to your inside hem. About 56 inches long, 1" wide, enough to secure the largest loads in the pockets. Loose ends are hemmed to prevent fraying. These leg ties tie tightly, and do not slip free as the thicker factory made ones do. $5.00 pair

Orange Panels, Ground Troop D-Day recognition

Orange D-Day Recognition Panels. These were used in Normandy to identify friendly ground forces. The 4^th Infantry Division were known to have them as well as paratroopers of the 101^st. They were used to signal to each other, the color Orange being the color known by the allies for that operation. We don’t know if they were used beyond Normandy, but a great addition for the D-Day impression both infantry and airborne. Pretty useful in a reenactment as well for identifying your own side from long distances. Approximately 20” x 20” square cotton cloth, hemmed with thick white thread.

Scarves, Ground Troop Arial recognition

Individual Arial Recognition Scarves. Friendly ground troops used scarves like these to make themselves visible from the air. These are made with bright yellow nylon simulating the material of the period, trimmed with 100% cotton heavy white webbing. Used in the late-war period, notably by the 17th Airborne for Operation Varsity. Panel size is triangular, roughly 20" x 30". Big enough to go over a backpack even. Strings go through loops on the front, and tie together. $18.00 each.

Tent Ropes, Shelter Half Replacement Ropes

Shelter Half Replacement Ropes. If you have picked up an original shelter half that's missing the ropes, here they are! Also good for the Vietnam era to modern shelter halves as well. The grommets on the modern halves are larger, so these will go through easily. One the WWII halves, we've discovered some have smaller grommets. Use an old rigger trick- put some thin, but heavy line or string through the grommet, and put the tie down rope through a loop of the string. Then pull it through the grommet, don't try to push it. Goes through nicely and fits tight.

Mountain Tent Tie Down Ropes. Mountain Tent long ropes for tying down the ends. Great reproductions match the originals in look and strength. If your missing your mountain tent ropes, we're the only ones!

Taut-Line Hitch -Used to tie the ends of the mountain ropes and other ropes used on WWII era tents, including shelter halves.

A hitch with a loop on its end, particularly useful when the tension on the line may need to be increased or decreased—as when securing tent lines or securing a load in a truck bed.

Tauntline hitch

Rubber Canteen Top

Made and designed for WWII parachute demonstration. We need items that are soft enough to take the blow on landing, without too much chance of injury. While nothing will prevent injury, these items help to minimize the chance, yet have the look of WWII equipment.

Rubber Canteen Top. Black rubber to simulate a full canteen set. You put it on top of foam, in your own canteen carrier. Works with all WWII carriers. The foam insert is cut to the exact size of the canteen itself. $20.00 for rubber top and foam. Does not include the canteen carrier.

1963 Dated Pack Straps- Original U.S. G.I.

Pack Straps. Must be used for pack extensions, I'm not exactly sure. For Vietnam era M-1956 gear. These are in unused but dirty condition from storage. The ones in the wrapper are new and clean. Some slight corrosion on the hardware from storage, but all in excellent shape. Dated 1963. $3.00 each for unwrapped, $5.00 each wrapped in original packaging.

Carlisle Bandage Tin- Repro Replacements

"Altoids" tins. Tin boxes, new, or painted OD for use in your bandage pouch on your cartridge belt. These are not used mint tins, but new manufactured ones. Exact same size and shape as the famous mints "Altoids." Make all sorts of projects with these tins, or use them in medical kits, or as bandage pouch boxes. MEASURES Approximately: 3 3/4"L X 2 3/8"W X 7/8"H

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