DID YOU KNOW?

[Gil Boyd]

Rope Souled Military Commando Boots
In black or Brown.

Due to the souls of the issue Army boots in WW2 being so noisy in many wartime scenarios, such as moving through streets, roads, guarding bridges and climbing, a limited amount of these boots were produced for Commando units, after finding that a simple method of tieing hessian around the boots made them completely quiet.

These boots were also worn by those in Jungle Warfare roles as well, long before the BATA rubber soled and green canvas sided boots of the late 50's and 60's were issues.

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[browningautorifle]

We had black running shoes with rubber soles issued to the army for quite a while. By the time I was issued, they were white because of unification...but the black ones were very successfully worn on patrols... I used to use them when bow hunting too.

[Gil Boyd]

The lads wEre issued with these in 1965 at the Battle of Plaman Mapu in the Mortar pits less the studs and all the noise in the jungle one presumes on the duck boards. All I remember is wearing BATA ones rubber soles green canvas sides in 71, but a few had these. Must have been left overs from WW2

[browningautorifle]

rubber soles green canvas sides

I remember seeing those...yes you guys would have had lots of WW2 leftovers. Our stuff had been surplussed off but I had lots of Korea issue leftovers...like some of the troops themselves.