GER M40 Uniform

The German M40 uniform with the boots in game consists of the M40 tunic with infantry litzen, white infantry piping of the shoulder boards, and an M36 breast eagle patch, along with M37 trousers and M39 jackboots. The M40 tunic was the first modification to the German tunic of the German Army during WWII, having a feldgrau (field grey) collar and shoulder boards. The uniform also had four pleated pockets which held pocket litter such as bandages, documentation, Eihangrenate Mod.39 "egg" grenades, and other personal items. The tunic itself had five buttons, excluding the buttons for the pockets. As mentioned, piping and litzen (collar tabs) were used to indicate what jobs a soldier worked as, such as, infantry, panzer grenadier, engineering, medic, artillery, and more, the collar litzen used in game is the black and white infantry litzen, with white infantry piping of the shoulder boards.

The tunic during the war would either bear the M40 breast eagle path, which had a field grey backing, or the M36 breast eagle patch, which had a black backing. The M40 tunic in game sports the M36 breast eagle patch. Along with the tunic as mentioned earlier is the M37 trousers, which were also in feldgrau. The trousers had a high waist, adjustment belt at the rear, button fly, pocket watch, and straight legs. These trousers were intended to be worn with suspenders, with the Heer and SS having their own design.

The M37 trousers did not loop holes for a belt. The M39 jack boot, or marschstiefel are the black dyed leather boots worn by the German Heer throughout the war, but mostly being mainly only being most common during the early war stage along with the the rest of the uniform as later models would be made such as the German M43 uniform which is not in the game yet. The M39 boots in game do also have the hobnails and heel plate that the boot did have in real life. This uniform in the game can mostly be found in campaigns set around 1940-1942, especially in the 1942 squads for the medic and marksmen, or even the German 1942 mechanized infantry squad, where the soldier in the position of the MG gunner on the half-track will wear this uniform as well.