April 5, 2024
ORIGINAL 1942 US ARMY BROWN CAPTOE LEATHER SOLE COMBAT SHOES / BOOTS W/HOBNAILS
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This is a pair of original U.S. Army issue 1942-dated cap-toed service or combat shoes (low-top boots) with leather soles and hobnails. This particular kind of shoe was sometimes issued in the European Theater of Operations (ETO) as a U.S. Army combat boot (I know this for a fact because my father, a rifleman of the 94th Infantry Division, who was wounded in action, wore exactly this type of shoe into combat in Germany in early 1945). Also see the cover of Henri-Paul Enjames' book, "Government Issue: U.S. Army European Theater of Operations," the officer kneeling with his back to the camera is wearing a pair of hobnail boots). ********** This type of shoe was officially listed in the the 1943 US Army Quartermaster catalog as "Shoes, Service, Hob-Nail," described as follows: "This shoe is made like the shoes, service, with the exception that it carries two (2) full length leather soles and has the forepart hob-riveted and the heel is either hob-riveted or steel rimmed. This shoe is issued on special requisition only." This hob-riveted variety of service shoe is an extremely rare variant of the U.S. Army combat shoe of early WWII. ****** This pair is size 7D. The leather is smooth brown russet, with a cap toe. Laces are the original brown cotton laces, with plastic tips. Each shoe is stamped inside with Quartermaster information, I
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