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A representation of a Czech paratrooper from the mid-1960s. He is armed with the RPG-7 anti-tank weapon and wears the 1960s Czechoslovakian 3-colour Sumpfmuster, which is long since obsolete. [Image: Daniel Peterson/The Crowood Press Ltd.]

Czechoslovakian 3-colour Sumpfmuster camouflage
Czechoslovakia

After World War 2, Czechoslovakia developed and issued no less than four distinct camouflage patterns that were based on the German wartime Sumpfmuster-43 (1943 marsh pattern) camouflage pattern. The first of these designs, used in the late 1940s and early 1950s for shelter halves, was virtually identical to some versions of the German pattern and was probably printed using original wartime rollers.

This 3-colour Sumpfmuster camouflage, produced in the mid-1960s to replace the very colourful mlok camouflage pattern, appeared in two distinct variant forms. In one, the dots and clumps are all but invisible. In the variant shown here, however, the dark green dots and clumps are very distinct and have grey-green borders. They are overprinted with a continuous pattern of grey-green dashes, and the background is a much lighter grey-green.

It seems likely that this Czechoslovakian 3-colour Sumpfmuster was the basis for the Bulgarian frogskin camouflage pattern.

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