Question Fallschirmjager uniform

I suppose it would depend on how cold, and how soon after a jump. My references show Falschirmjager troops in Russia wearing camo jump smocks over great coats and other standard German Infantry gear, with standard issue leather web gear. Though there are also the FJ issue canvas cartridge bandoleers too. Color would be light gray or sand, I imagine.

plymonkey many thanks for your help, i thought that it would of been a light gray.

Its just as i said getting ready to move so all my books are packed & coulvd not find much on the web.

So once again many thanks for your help Alan.

 Sure. I've been there. My reference library is always one of the very first things that gets set up when I move.

 There's probably a fair amount of reasonable license for types of equipment and coloration, so I'd say you don't have much to worry about.

plymonkey you are so right there with thr books,last in first out.

Cant wait for this move to be over & to have the phone line in so i can get back on line.

Still never mind & once again many thanks Alan.

As it happens, I'm currently assembling a Crete Fallschgirmjaeger. What I've researched shows that the Luftwaffe 'bread' bag (ditty-bag/musette bag) was a bluish-gray, as were the straps (compared to the Army's light tan). The bandolier hanging around the neck for Kar-98 ammo was also this color but later followed the splinter pattern used in their smocks. The gas-mask bag (they used bags, not the familiar canisters, since the latter could cause injury if you landed on them in a paradrop) were olive-green (I assume the same shade of green as their early-pattern smocks, which I achieve by adding yellow to field grey). Belt and suspenders were black or brown leather. Helmet straps were grey leather, and the bands used for attaching foliage to helmets were field grey, though wire was often used. Everything else was Army pattern. Later in the war (around the time your winter uniform was used) it was not unusual for Fsjgr to use Army equipment, even - believe it or not - Army helmets, especially since these paras were now land based. What I have been unable to reconcile is the color of fsjgr trousers. Some sources say field grey, others field blue . . . A little help here?

Who used the blue trouserts? I've never seen it in any movie or documentary (since they are almost all b/w).

/Lars

The Luftwaffe uniforms were field blue and as the Fallschirmjager Troops belonged to the Luftwaffe they would normally be wearing field blue combat uniforms under their jumpsuits and combat smocks.  Apart from black boots and grey helmet chinstraps most of the leather based equipment would be brown. 

Hope this helps.

P.S.  Near the end of the war most german troops would wear any uniform bits and pieces what they could obtain so it is very possible that Fallschirmjager troops, who would be fighting as infantry longside army units, could be wearing field grey trousers as these were easier to obtain.

Most sources on the Web and the Concord Publications book on Fsjgr say field-grey para trousers, whilst Handbook on the German Military (if I remember the title right), while specifying that paras used specially-designed trous, it also said they were Luftwaffe blue. I went with the majority. (Though the Fliegerbluse collar peeking out of the smock is unquestionably field blue with yellow rank patches)