US Army two piece pup tent
This model pup tent uses two shelter halves which join together with the special shelter half press studs, not the buttons on the earlier shelter halves.
During World War Two the military pup tent went through several changes, this version was the last modification which has basically stayed the same right up to the 1980's and until the shelter half pup tent was withdrawn from military service.
This version differs from our model 1943 replica by having the later special double headed press studs to fasten the two shelter halves together instead of the metal buttons that are used on all the earlier pup tents.
This version of shelter half with the press studs is popular with Vietnam and some WW2 re-enactors. This model of pup tent used to be easliy available as Army surplus but recently they seem to almost dissapeared from most surplus shops. So we have made a replica of it for a two reasons;
- If the rest of your group are using this model you can look the same.
- A lot of customers want both shelter halves looking the same colour green which is proving more difficult with army surplus ones (these ones are all made using the same colour canvas so you get a great match).
We have called this the model 1945 shelter halves for ease of ordering, I have not managed to find an exact date of when this model (with the press stud fasteners) reached the soldiers in the field but there is no evidence that they where used in the field in 1945. So this is for a post war impression or so it matches what the rest of your group has if they are using surplus ones.
The current shipment has black nylon guy ropes and black nylon cords to hold the pegs tied onto the canvas, this was done at the factory as the white cotton cord was not avaiable when they where packing the tents into the bags, so they used the black nylon cord so they could be finished and then added the white cotton cord later into the top of the storage bags. So you will need to change the ropes over before you use the pup tent to get the correct look. Just to confirm the white cotton ropes for the guy ropes and pegs are included.
1945 green shelter half features:
Each shelter half has the following features:
- 5 grommets for pegs. 3 along the base and 1 at each end of the flaps.
- 2 grommets in the top corners for the poles to go through.
- Canvas loop on the top corners for the guy ropes
- 5 x double rows of press studs down each door to close the flaps.
- 9 x double rows of press studs along the roof to join the two shelter halves together.
- 55" wide at widest point.
- 65" along the base of the square section.
- From point to point of the triangular end pieces.
Price is for 2 x matched US Army WW2 shelter halves
