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THE PRICE IS UPDATED!!!!!! They are $35 right now, $40 savings off the orginal price. The AZ battle is in the snow. It may be a good item to pick up for some of you guys who do not have shoepacs or overshoes.

Order your normal size, and they will come big enough to fit over your boot.


Here is a cheaper place which sells a "rubber buckle" boot for $44.00. The WPG version looks like cloth over rubber vs. a full rubber boot as you seen in the picture above with the soldier wearing the real MaCoy http://www.heelingtouch.com/shop/?shop= ... rce=google

Here is one that looks perfect in Olive Drab, sold by Ace Hardware (possibly local) for $32.00
http://www.acehardware.com/product/inde ... age=family
Or get the same boot at Amazon.com for $24.00

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000BQPIK0?smi ... nkCode=asn





Here is another place selling a 4 buckle rubber boot for $29.50
http://workingperson.com/products/22_19 ... 66160.html


And still another place selling them for $32.41
Also You can find these locally at "The Do it Center" and probably "Osh"

[img]http://www.qcsupply.com/ProductImages/71625PCLG.jpg[/img]


Yeap at the "Do It Center" for $34.50 ( buy them locally without freight)
http://doitbest.com/main.aspx?pageid=64 ... ciate=true

http://media.mydoitbest.com/imagereques ... ewsize=600

The Lecross ones are close in appearance as they have 4 buckles like the proper origional ones. The other ones are not even close.

Yea, no one sells an exact repro, the present day ones have too many buckles and are all rubber (But there were 5 buckle boots produced read below) except for the one you pointed out. But even WPG one's aren't totally correct either they have the buckles and the canvas upper, but they are missing the high rubber lip that comes up around the base of the boot.

Here is another picture of what they look like


In 1941 LaCross received a contract from the U.S. Army to produce 43,200 pairs of Arctic, rubbertop overshoes. It was the first of several government contracts that La Crosse Rubber Mills would fulfill over the coming years. During World War II it produced jungle rubber footwear, hip boots, four-buckle overshoes, tennis shoes, and rubbers for use by military personnel. When the war ended in 1945, the company promised all returning veterans who had worked for the company that they would either get their old jobs back or be hired for even better ones.

Very Large picture of the hundreds of boots
http://www.archives.gov/research/africa ... ii-037.jpg

Here is more information, which supports a 5 buckle and a 4 buckle bookt

Several versions of World War II overshoes were manufactured, one with a side pleat in the upper panels, a second that employed five buckles, and a third version, the “Overshoes, Arctic (Canvas Top)” issued during the middle of World War II with no pleats and four buckles (Lewis 1993:154). The overshoes accessioned as CILHI 2001-126-A-03 also have no side pleats present and they bear evidence of a four-buckle configuration, thus they are consistent with Overshoes, Arctic (Canvas Top

http://www.jpac.pacom.mil/Downloads/WWI ... 01-126.pdf

I have a pair of the La Cross rubber overshoes and they are nice, sturdy, and also close to the origional ones. You need to use a black sharpie to black out the La Cross logo. I also have a pair of origional Shoepacs. They are expensive and I do not know how well the stitching will hold up. I will probably wait to use them at a battle where I can have better access to additional footware in case of problems and go with my La Cross ones.

Great researching topic

I going to look through the Ariz-Battle website for the footwear pictures. Given the "one-time nature" and the fact they would covered most of the time, I'm leaning the same way as you Mayo.

Yeah the early war/ pre-war rubber overshoes looked the most like the La Crosse ones and they were all rubber. The rubber shortage stopped the production I am sure.

Yeah, and it's interesting that LaCross was one of the War Era suppliers.

Also we would only be wearing them, if conditions required. I guess you could get creative and use rubber cement to cut-n-glue some black canvas material onto the boot to make your own repro.

The Flagstaff webcam http://www.flagstaffwebcam.com/web_cam.htm#

Lets you see live footage of several peaks and mountains. You have to hit the start cam button, in order for your turn to control the pointing of the camera. Then you can pick one of the pre-set camera angles for the peaks and mountains


Current Camera look depending on who is controlling the camera at this moment. If you go to the site you can change the camera pointing and get the mountains
http://65.103.206.22/-wvhttp-01-/GetOne ... ze=640x480

ooks cold and has snow on the ground in town. We are going to be in the hills. I bet there is a good bit of snow there. If you have snow camo (old white sheets (not the ones used for your bunk) bring it.

http://search.ebay.com/army-galoshes_W0 ... RCHQ3aSRCH

I'm bidding on a pair of these. I know they are Korean War M-1950 ones, but they are close. I will look at them and see if we can cut them down to be correct. Fernie bought a pair too.

as and alternative for the over shoes SealSkinz socks are really good your feet still get cold but you do need 4 pair of socks minimum . same idea just on the inside of your boot and for the hikers the are great too.

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dl ... category0=

Mayo wrote:http://onlinemilitaria.net/shopexd.asp?id=199&bc=no

THE PRICE IS UPDATED!!!!!! They are $40 right now. The AZ battle is in the snow. It may be a good item to pick up for some of you guys who do not have shoepacs or overshoes.

Actually if you go back and look at the ad, WPG's boots are on sale for $35, not $40. It says you SAVE $40.

They must have been reading our forum


I just ordered a pair

I just got my pair delivered today. They look very nice!

The picture on the WPG site, is at a bad angle. The rubber actually rides higher around the based of the boot, than their website picture makes it look like. Also the boots are made of with a black canvas. On their website, the material looks like it's a blue-gray soft material.

They look exactly like these



Here is what the WPG picture looks like
http://onlinemilitaria.net/shopexd.asp?id=199&bc=no