LTP* Elco Crew info needed

Look for the Tamiya sets for the M113 APC and "US Command Group" from the M577 types of figure sets... They'll need to have some putty work to "unblouse" the trousers and you'll have to make life jackets on 'em, but they'd be the easiest to convert and all of them have sleeves rolled up... You'll likely need a few heads as well, since what you ask for precludes the Squids from all wearing their steel pots, or you can do some more putty work on the heads that depict stuff like ball-caps, bandanas, or boonie-type headgear, maybe even some dixie-cup hats as well...

I don't know of any sets that are "US Sailors at Rest" types... You'll need to be creative.. 'Corse, come to think of it, if they're not "underway", you could get away with not using the life jackets as well, although there's a few that would have to have the web gear puttied over...

 Kinda depends on good you are on Frankensteining, but those Italeri figures would work to supply torsos with vests, combined with the Tamiya figs' legs and lower body and head/arms...

As for the colors of the uniforms, the Sailors would be wearing the standard Navy work dungarees with the  light blue shirts/dark blue trousers with the officers wearing khakis...

  Better yet; make the Officers stay on the bridge, where they normally stay underway and the Chief Petty Officers on deck with various crews (Chiefs really run the Navy!)  that wore the dungaree uniform while working with a Khaki officer style hat without the Gold and with the Chief Petty Officer fouled anchor. Any WW2 movie i.e. "PT109" will show the working uniforms of all paygrades.

 Under battle stations the entire crew wore grey colored helmets with rank insignia or wording painted on respective helmets. For a small PT boat and I served on the modern PTFs out of Naval Amphib Base Coronado, the crew probably wouldn't have ranks on the helmets as everyone knew everyone else as a tight knit family of sorts. ( "CO, XO, etc")

 The Chief Petty Officer grades (E-7 thru E-9) are the mainstay of the Navy and responsible for the everyday operations, personnel manangement and training of the crews assigned to a department. I spent 24 years in the Navy and retired a Chief Petty Officer, not one person in the world could trade me for that experience.

johncpo wrote:

Better yet; make the Officers stay on the bridge, where they normally stay underway and the Chief Petty Officers on deck with various crews (Chiefs really run the Navy!)  that wore the dungaree uniform while working with a Khaki officer style hat without the Gold and with the Chief Petty Officer fouled anchor. Any WW2 movie i.e. "PT109" will show the working uniforms of all paygrades.  Under battle stations the entire crew wore grey colored helmets with rank insignia or wording painted on respective helmets. For a small PT boat and I served on the modern PTFs out of Naval Amphib Base Coronado, the crew probably wouldn't have ranks on the helmets as everyone knew everyone else as a tight knit family of sorts. ( "CO, XO, etc")  The Chief Petty Officer grades (E-7 thru E-9) are the mainstay of the Navy and responsible for the everyday operations, personnel manangement and training of the crews assigned to a department. I spent 24 years in the Navy and retired a Chief Petty Officer, not one person in the world could trade me for that experience.

Hi Chief,

Not to contradict, but from many photos I've examined, it would appear that the working uniform for CPOs during WW2 was the same dungaree rig as for E-1 through E-6, but with the normal CPO hat with a white or blue cover.

Cheers,

John Snyder, Captain's Yeoman, USS Bainbridge (DLGN-25), 1966-70