WTB WW2 hip boots and chest waders

[quartertrack]

Looking for Hip boots and Chest waders for my footwear display.WW2 or Korean War dated is fine.

[blitz67]

What exactly are you looking for? This sounds like fishing equipment?

Brad

[retro-roco]

Commonly issued to engineer units, particularly bridging crews.

[quartertrack]

In a technical manual I have from1956.They have a Boot-Hip-Rubber-Black.Boot-Fireman-Rubber-Black-Plain toe.And a Boot-Hip-Rubber-coated fabric-Black.That has three buckles up the front.I missed a pair of dated WW2 hip boots on ebay a while back when the computer locked up at just the wrong moment.

[jda69]

If anyone has a picture of these dating to WWII, I'd love to know. These hip boots may actually have had a material effect on the outcome of the Battle of Vossenack, Germany, in November 44. I'm a 20-year student of the 146th Engineer Combat Battalion who was in the area at the time, wearing these boots because of the muddy conditions. A German strike to retake the town almost overran the small elements of various 28th Infantry Division units who were there; the 146th was pulled from its construction duties and sent in to organize the defense on 6-7 November. Reinforcements arrived to find the Germans repulsed, with 130 taken captive. An unsolicited remark by a captured German officer, recorded in at least two published accounts, confirms that the hip boots were noticed by the Germans. The speculation by the US troops on the scene was that they may have thought the unfamiliar gear was issued with a weapons system they weren't prepared for. In any case when the engineers arrived, the Germans withdrew in a hurry. The captured officer believed that "We would have recaptured Vossenack if those darn engineers in their ‘heep boods’ (hip boots) had not been brought into the town!" Other reports from those in close contact with the enemy noted that the Germans stared at these weird boots with "amazement." Anyone wanting to know more about the unit or its activity at Vossenack, Monschau, or D-Day is welcome to send me an email: john_antkowiak at yahoo.

[Steve Webb]

Here are several types Bib, hip and foot waders. Sweating buckets in those bib's

https://books.google.com/books?id=Htuzf ... 20&f=false