use of the short spade by stormtroopers

[Simone]

hello, I serched around for my stormtrooper impression, but I could not find any pictures of stormtrooper with short spades, only with pioneer spades or without,
so I wanted to know if a stormtrooper with a short blade was possible and if someone has some photos maybe, I was especially interested in 1918 and I thought  that maybe with the spread of stormtropers and the transformation of infantry battalions into stormtroopers one  maybe some spades had been reused

thanks to all 

[MG1918]

Do you mean the machine gunners spade?

 

Mark

 

[Bayern]

I think that Simone refers to the current  Linemann Infantry spade  and not the Machine Gunners one. The Pioneer type Linemann spade currently portrayed on stormtroopers had a long staff of about 70 cm long and was carried across the back ,  The simplified Sturmgepack of german Infantrymen ,  was carried on the back and basically consisted in the normal infantry spade with a blanket and tent cloth rolled around and with the individual mess can wraped also 

[MG1918]

Bayern great info.

I was perhaps focussing too much on a stormtrooper wielding a sharpened MG spade as a weapon!

[Bayern]

MG1918 : My pleasure