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Parachutist / SOE Knee Pads.

Parachutist / SOE Knee Pads.
Dated: 1943.
Maker: Emile Littler.
A very nice, original and rare 1943 dated pair of knee pads.
These knee pads were issued to British Paratroops and SOE parachutists in the early years of parachuting. A leather lace is used as a quick release.
British made and at that time copied from the knee pads of German Fallschirmjäger.
One of the attached images shows a copy of a photo from the book Ganze Männer (Hauptmann Piehl, about the German Fallschirmjäger). Look at the simularity to the British knee pads.
Stamped: EMILE LITTLER W↑D 1943.