Yes agreed mate, if you re-read my posts i was refferring to dirty appearance of clothing not equipment,Peter Bauer wrote:Just my one cent on support of Franz, I do think from my own experience and from what I've read an seen is that you do tend to take care of the things you are issued with. Especially the stuff that is really important to your survival. Shaving your face might not be the number one priority when you are fighting for weeks in a row but you would make sure you're belt andpouches were working. As well as shoes.
of course equipment is number one priority, as for boots yes they were repaired etc or if another better pair
could be gotten hold of but they were still muddy until the opportunity arose to clean them.
Anyway just my two cents view on the majority of combat pics ive seen, obviously early War pics the appearence
was clean/smart, or pics from training camps/parade, but what people wont or dont understand is the average combat
soldier in pics from the frontline had a dirty appearence !!!!
Peiper.