Equipment

At the end of 1941, due to the fact that soldiers and mountain riflemen on the Eastern Front and North Africa need to have with you extra clothes and food, infantry units began to issue combat backpacks instead of backpacks obr.1934 / 1939 This type of equipment manufactured by the company before the war that made tourist and sports models of backpacks for peaceful purposes. But with the beginning of the war, these companies have been forced to move production of military products. This backpack model has been developed for fastening it to the infantry supporting belts. But there are other models, as produced by different factories and they were not developed a single design.

It was introduced in February 1940 for the calculation of foot artillery, replacing a backpack obr.1934 These backpacks also issued small quantities of infantry and other units, especially on the Eastern Front and North Africa.

This suspension system used in the German army to carry liter flasks.

Semi-automatic rifle, was issued Gew.43 at the front in 1944 in limited quantities, it is usually received only one person in each of the infantry divisions of the part that got a weapon on one hand vooruzhenie.V issued only one pouch, worn by on the belt to the left, while the right side was running a standard pouch obr.1911 of the three offices. Since the rifle was made by a standard rifle cartridge, the pyatipatronnye clips could be used in the weapon.