Picture of the Day

[Seth_Soldier]

Funny how different countries/cultures have such different ways of wearing their barets. I respect everyone's uniform but as a Dutch guy these really make me cringe lol.

That's ww2, and milice style.
Just in france 1940 you had at least 3 type of beret and plenty of ways to wear it depending of the unit

[Slayer]

Are they French?

They are the Milice:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milice

I searched for Vichy unifroms but I didn't find the emblem. The Vichy one is different, so that's why I asked.

Btw, this was our "Milice"

[Leopardi]

[Seth_Soldier]

[Seth_Soldier]

[Leopardi]

More Finnish BAR. The few hundred pieces were mostly used by coastal troops.

[Slayer]

Looks like a German WW1 helmet.

[Hjaldrgud]

My thoughts as well. It has something strange going on by the ears

[VonMudra]

It's the M18 'cut out' helmet.  There's various reasons given for why this was done, the most likely is that it was to make it easier to hear in combat/less likely to cause ear damage from reverberation of explosions.

[Torenico]

And why such design was discontinued?

[VonMudra]

My guess- they were solving a problem that wasn't all that important and didn't need solving, while adding production time.  They only made a few thousand of the helms, and the idea was never explored again.

[Seth_Soldier]

[Torenico]

[Seth_Soldier]

interresting weapons 

[Leopardi]