Synthetic Rubber Equipment

[PKeating]

Despite the stern instructions to dispose of by burning after use, these are reusable and still work after more than sixty years.

PK

[Brian Wolfe]

Hi PK,

I'm not even going to ask how you would know that.

No, really, don't tell me.

Cheers

Brian

[PKeating]

Well, there was a guy who jumped an original RZ20 chute in England recently. Anyway, I think most guys used these to keep their cigarettes dry or as muzzle covers.

The late holder of the above soldbuch certainly hadn't used one as its makers intended when he arrived at SS-Fallschirmj?ger-Btl 600. However, the doctor was an understanding fellow and wrote what he had up as a Code 24 rather than a Code 14 or 15, contracting an STD being a chargeable offence in most armies, including the Wehrmacht/Waffen-SS. In fact, I have never seen a soldbuch containing a reference to Codes 14 (syphilis) or 15 (Other STDs). They usually contain '24', which refers to "non-sexually transmitted genital problems". So off to the clinic he went, but it didn't save him from an early death on the battlefield in February 1945, poor fellow.

PK