US Army in the Pacific

[Roed]

I am looking into the US Army in the Pacific, but it seems that most pictures I find are USMC.

Does anyone know if the army uniforms in the Pacific was significantly different from the European ones? Were they similar to USMC? I am trying to figure out which 28mm miniatures to use.

Thanks

[carlos marighela]

Broad question but we will leave aside 1941 in the Philippines and the Aleutians Campaign.

Typically the US Army wore a herringbone twill fatigue uniform in the SW Pacific. Usually they wore helmets without covers unlike the marines.

The only 28mm manufacturer that comes close are Perry Miniatures. In their US WW2 range there are a couple of packs in suitable uniforms. Fortunately the two packs are exactly what you require for a squad. Company support weapons, command etc you would need to source yourself but a little bit of work with a scalpel should convert the Parsons jackets in their plastic box into HBT shirts.

It’s a limited choice.

[Roed]

Hi Carlos

Thanks for your reply. I can see I was up-specific regarding the timing. My interest is 1942+

I will take a look at the perry range and most likely go with a mix of the plastic and metal. From what I can see it seems that the Army uniforms are also the faded olive drab/green that the marines have. Do you know if that is correct?

[carlos marighela]

HBT came in two shades. The early issue was a sort of sage green that faded quickly and lost a bit of it’s camouflage quality so later in the war they started dyeing it a darker OD colour. Of course the older version continued to be issued whilst stocks lasted so you are safe with that and you can always say it’s a unit of old salts with faded kit for late war. If you want later war you could even mix and match.

[commissarmoody]

I used the warlord games USMC with coverless helmets for mine. Uniform is not 100% correct mind you. But this was before Perry got into plastic ww2.