[karlmortar]

I have bought a couple of supply canisters and baskets for my 1/72 scale British Airborne soldiers.
I intend to attach parachutes to some of the "recently landed" canisters, I know that the parachutes where color coded, one color meaning for example ammo, an other medical supplies, but I don't know wich color means what.

I have tried to find a site with this information, but no luck.

Can anyone help?

[Pzt_Verboten]

I am not sure about colour coding as such, but I have worked with some WWII era "Storpedoes" during my time in the RAAF . My understanding is that ours haven't changed since WWII (and some of the chutes are dated from 1942-43).

In short the medical storpeadoes would get a silk chute whereas non medical supply ones have a brown hessian chute. The idea is that the medical containers needed to land softer.

Oh and as a side not the containers are all packed identically, so all containers would contain ammo, food and blankets etc. SO that no matter what container you found you got something you needed. After all it would suck if had plenty of food and the ammo container went missing.

Hope that helps.

Verb

[karlmortar]

[ronson]

There was a colour coding chart at the Pegusus museum that I visited recently, as far as I can recall the colours were as follows:-

Khaki = Men
Red = Ammunition & weapons
Blue= Food
Yellow= Medical supplies
White= Personal items and general stores

The US forces used a similar system, however they had different colours for each item.

Hope this is of some help to you. Keep looking for yourself on this subject as it is always best to double check these sorts of things.

Cheers
Ronson

[karlmortar]

Thank you Ronson.