"Hooves" are ordinary and extraordinary

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"Hooves" are ordinary and extraordinary

Remember my tradition of describing shoe patterns with one typical word?

So, the word "hooves" for Japanese shoes was not invented by me, but by the Americans. But more on that later.



We are used to viewing World War II from a European perspective more often.

It happened historically and geographically - our fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers fought on the fields of Russia and Europe. Everything is correct.

But there was also another front of hostilities. And no less significant is the Pacific. There, our then allies — the Americans, the British, the Australians — fought against the Axis member Japan. Well, our compatriots also dealt their last blows in that terrible war in August 1945.

Copying and theft


Japan was a poorly studied country a hundred years ago. And there was an ambivalent attitude towards her.

On the one hand, there are centuries-old traditions in military affairs.

On the other hand, there is powerful industrialization and the creation of the latest, perfect, technical designs. Something was created there under purchased licenses, and something was simply stolen.

The Land of the Rising Sun could be considered the then world copyist. Like today's China. It got to the point that they refused to sell even single pieces of equipment and weapons to Japan.

So the military boot was practically a copy of the Australian one, in which the soldiers of the green continent fought the Turks during the First World War.

However, Australia made no claims. Since 1903, the countries have signed an agreement on assistance and cooperation.

And what was the secret there?

Mid-height leather boot. Brown or light brown. Five eyelets for open lacing.

Leather sole or Rubber.

Yes, at a time when other countries were saving on rubber, the Japanese could afford such a luxury.

The leather sole was supplied with steel nails - thorns. On the rubber, there were also those, in the form of bulges.

Interestingly, the upper eyelets did not reach the very top, so as not to rub the leg when bent.

Everything is stitched with double and triple seams. There are no rivets. Reinforced back.

In some images, the heel counter is lengthened for the convenience of footwear.

All this was worn (traditionally for that time) with windings.




Now, after reading and looking at the illustrations, the reader will remember:

"What does the hooves have to do with it?"

Now about them the most ...

Hooded socks


In 1942, in Papua New Guinea, the allies clashed with the Japanese from Kaigun Tokubetsu Rikusentai (special amphibious assault forces). The traces left by one of the fighters attracted attention.

They had a characteristic imprint, indeed, resembling the footprint of an ungulate, which made it possible to trace the route of movement of the group.

The thing is that the Japanese special forces soldier was shod in jika-tabi.

Note. Tabi are traditional Japanese ankle-length socks with split toe (split toe). They are worn by both men and women with traditional footwear and clothing. Jika-tabi are also known as tabi boots.

Honestly, I myself found out about this shoe only from the comment of one of the readers.

It is in these shoes that the traditions of the people of the land of the rising sun are manifested.

The fact is that from time immemorial, the poorer sections of the population wore wooden or woven sandals on their feet, like “flip flops” - when the strap strap passes between the thumb and forefinger on their feet. And socks (some consider them not socks, but shoes) for this shoe began to be sewn with a “protruding” thumb. They began to call them "tabi". What does "touching the earth" mean? For convenience, there were fasteners at the back - hooks that allowed you to adjust the size.

Everyone went to tabi - both rickshaws and geishas. And the soldiers put them in boots.


In the early twentieth century, Tokujiro Ishibashi (brother of the founder of the Bridgestone tire company) invented jiki tabi. Figuratively speaking, sneakers.

Traditional fabric upper and rubber sole. The footwear came to taste and became popular.

And so, when these masses began to tear away from the fields and rice paddies for military service, it turned out that many soldiers find it difficult to endure long marches in their authorized boots. The conservatism of the imperial army cracked. And it was allowed to wear jika-tabi as well. Moreover, during off-duty times, soldiers already wore simple or woven tabi.

For its characteristic shape and footprint, the Americans called Japanese footwear “hooves”.

  • Igor Maleev
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  1. +29
    19 February 2021 18: 13
    Excellent article and the whole cycle is very interesting. For the first time I learned that such exotic Shoes were possible in the Japanese army, respect to the author.
    1. +39
      19 February 2021 18: 18
      And I never tire of thanking everyone who comments. It inspires, makes you not give up.
      1. +24
        19 February 2021 18: 38
        The fact that I rarely comment on your articles does not mean that I do not read them.
        Thanks Igor!
        1. +18
          19 February 2021 19: 02
          Quote: 3x3zsave
          The fact that I rarely comment on your articles does not mean that I do not read them.
          Thanks Igor!

          I join .. I always read but do not always comment .. Very high quality articles.
          1. +3
            20 February 2021 07: 02
            Great series! Author continue. Of all the "Japanese boots" with rubber soles I liked them.
            1. +2
              20 February 2021 09: 48
              To walk comfortably in such, you need an exceptionally strong, developed foot. At the same time, it is very sensitive and adaptive - having stepped on a knot or a sharp stone, you must immediately transfer your foot, without transferring weight to it, otherwise you will burst your leg. No wonder the author notes that these shoes were worn by Japanese special forces.
              Ordinary Japanese also wore it en masse, getting used to it from early childhood, so they had no difficulties (although you don’t look like such in formation, of course). But for us... In my youth, I strengthened my foot, walking down the street in wrestling shoes. And when you are barefoot... This is not an easy task, and not only because the sole of the wrestling shoes must be changed once a month, or even more often)
              1. +1
                20 February 2021 11: 23
                Now there is such safety footwear for beaches and swimming pools - aquanoski. Some types are designed specifically for stone beaches and such shoes are better than wrestlers. I do not know, however, whether the present day all kinds of partisans in the tropics have already figured out to use it in their swampy terrain.
                1. 0
                  24 February 2021 11: 10
                  The partisans just neighing. There are such shoes as a machine gun, and why would they be needed? It's just pampering with excess money.
                  1. 0
                    24 February 2021 11: 32
                    This is how they sell it at retail by the piece, because vacationers by the seas have quite enough money for it - who will organize the supply with the purchase at retail? And on the topic of necessity - it was invented so as not to cut your legs, walking on sea corals and stones. And here you need to remember that the tropics are the cradle of diseases, including unique and unknown ones, and there you can pick up such things in cuts and other leg injuries from the soil that doctors will argue for another 70 years about what it was - after the terrible death of "man -phenomenon".
                    1. 0
                      24 February 2021 12: 09
                      The tropics are the cradle of the worst fairy tales for children among all mankind) Everything that you write is off topic. This fun has no military use, so this is on another site. During that War there was a fork - the development of weapons and equipment on the one hand, and the development of man, and only then iron, on the other.
                      I once read the topic of comparing the training of saboteurs in our country and in Nazi Germany. Otto Skorzeny, the German super-saboteur, the toughest they had then, proudly described his training. Her pinnacle, the crown of all efforts, was... a ten-kilometer cross with full equipment. And Skorzeny wrote about him as something beyond the clouds. Soviet saboteurs, who ran such crosses as unloading on the day off, chuckled softly ...
                      The path of human development is now rejected in the world. It is dangerous to develop a person. The developed man is not suitable as a slave for the current elites. So now they either do not develop their "fighters" beyond the starvation minimum at all, or they are given an extremely limited set of skills with magnificent advertising, and that's it.
                      And these shoes are not for the rocking, proudly carrying computerized gear and the latest weapons. This is for a person who knows how to subtly work with their musculoskeletal system. It is very difficult to leave such a person within the framework of a stupid subject, a slave of "new technologies". And the armies of the world do not need it at all.
                      Not a military topic.
      2. -14
        19 February 2021 20: 05
        February 23 is a sober holiday. And then you still need to write about the insoles. And about the boobs. And about shyness. And about recyclable materials? - into the trash. Someone is reviving the country. And someone just makes money on the topic
      3. +14
        19 February 2021 20: 47
        Igor thanks for the article and a reminder in PM!
        The peculiarity of your works is the uniqueness of the theme. If I understand anything, it is only in a domestic product: from tarpaulins to boots. So, starting with Germany, everything is at the level of revelations for me! I heard about "Japanese hooves", but only today I understood why they were called that!
        With sincere respect, we are waiting for the continuation of the "military moxican" theme!
        1. +3
          19 February 2021 22: 39
          Thank you, it was interesting. Write more.
        2. +3
          20 February 2021 10: 07
          With sincere respect, we are waiting for the continuation of the "military moxican" theme!

          I will join! We all love to discuss weapons, but we forget such a seemingly unremarkable topic as shoes. The author is filling this gap in our knowledge! drinks
      4. +3
        19 February 2021 21: 17
        Quote: Leader of the Redskins
        It inspires, makes you not give up.

        Well, you "Leader" try, it is very pleasant to read you, and informative. Continue, we are waiting. Zelo barzo is interesting!
      5. +5
        19 February 2021 21: 40
        I join all those who thank you! The author's syllable is laconic! Thanks for the articles. Looking forward to continuing hi
      6. +2
        19 February 2021 22: 38
        Thanks to the author for the article. Interesting. And the heel of the shoe is stacked, made in layers. Very practical.
      7. +4
        19 February 2021 22: 56
        Thank you very much!
        On Friday nights after work, it is very useful to read broadening articles.

        Especially about those topics that are usually overlooked. Airplanes, tanks and ships filled the shelves with thick tomes ...
        But the shoes are modestly standing at the door or gathering dust in the closet, waiting for caring hands to take them and show them to people! good
      8. 0
        21 February 2021 14: 05
        The Japanese soldiers still relied on a hand saw for sawing crackers! I read about such a tool in the belongings of a Japanese soldier in one of the issues of the "Soldier" magazine dedicated to the Japanese infantry.
        It turns out that the crackers were made very hard for better preservation and a simple infantryman had not to break them into pieces, but literally sawed them.
        Here is the idea for the next series of articles - "Crackers and biscuits of different armies of the world."
    2. +9
      19 February 2021 18: 22
      Quote: Avior
      Excellent article and the whole cycle is very interesting.

      Totally agree with you
      Read with great interest
  2. +21
    19 February 2021 18: 15
    I learn a lot about footwear from all over the world. Thanks for the interesting cycle, we look forward to continuing!
    “Perhaps the most important things in life are a good bed and comfortable shoes. After all, we spend our whole life either in bed or in shoes "
    Marcel Ashar.
  3. +14
    19 February 2021 18: 17
    Chief - Bravo good Please continue the cycle about equipment, it is very "easy" to read and write interestingly! hi
    1. +21
      19 February 2021 19: 24
      Imperial Japanese Army Shoe Samples 1937-1945

      1 - officer's boots ;;
      2 - officer's boots;
      3 - boots of non-commissioned officers and privates;
      4, 5 - tabi.
      1. +15
        19 February 2021 19: 27
        Bravo! I did not come across such a scheme in my search.
      2. +17
        19 February 2021 19: 27
        Boots were worn with wraps of woolen (in winter) or cotton fabric (in summer) of a dirty olive color.
        In the Japanese army, it was customary to wear white socks.

        1. +15
          19 February 2021 19: 31
          several drawings and photos of Japanese soldiers in tabi




          the sole really resembles a hoof
          link: https://militaristwear.com/encyclopedia/uniforma-yaponskoj-imperatorskoj-armii-1937-1945/
          1. +12
            19 February 2021 19: 36
            Thanks to the author. Interesting topic - read with great interest
            1. +15
              19 February 2021 19: 39
              I've seen drawings, but I try not to rely on them - every artist sees in his own way. And the photo is always more reliable. Here is the next article, in principle, from a photo and written ...
        2. +11
          19 February 2021 20: 48
          Quote: Richard
          Boots were worn with wraps of woolen (in winter) or cotton fabric (in summer) of a dirty olive color.
          In the Japanese army, it was customary to wear white socks.


          Hello Dmitry, I am sincerely glad to read your comments !!!
          1. +6
            19 February 2021 22: 14
            Greetings, Vlad. thank
      3. +1
        20 February 2021 05: 18
        Quote: Richard
        Imperial Japanese Army Shoe Samples 1937-1945

        I think that they wore "Australian" boots because they were produced in Australia, and with the beginning of the war, apparently with the cessation of supplies, they began to produce "hooves."
        And why would a Japanese be the founder of Bridgestone?
        "John and Elsa Blandstone arrived in Hobart, the capital of the Australian state of Tasmania, around 1853. Despite the fact that John already had experience in the production of shoes, he did not start his business until 17 years later. The first step was to import the best copies from England , and when Bloodstone saw the incredible demand, he simply had no choice. Thus, by 1892, he not only launched his shoe factory, but also expanded the family business, attracting the participation of his son, Sylvan.
        And the Bridgestones' trademark were bots, which we call "burnouts", and in England "Chelses".
        1. +2
          20 February 2021 05: 34
          Quote: pmkemcity
          Blandstone

          Here I wrote garbage! I apologize to the author! He himself sincerely believed that Blandstone was Bridgestone, there were such boots in childhood.
  4. +11
    19 February 2021 18: 26
    How many new things did I learn about a seemingly ordinary thing like shoes ...
    Igor, thanks hi good
  5. +12
    19 February 2021 18: 36
    I would be very surprised to find such traces somewhere, a sinful deed, the devil knows what I would think wassat
    Respect and success to the author!
    1. +5
      19 February 2021 18: 57
      Quote: Dimid
      God knows what I would think

      Yes, that's about him, the first thing I would think laughing
      1. +3
        19 February 2021 19: 04
        I meant it, "his cloven hoof" laughing
        1. +5
          19 February 2021 19: 35
          Horns would also be a tail ... in general, you won't fall asleep at night after laughing
    2. +10
      19 February 2021 19: 38
      Ndda! Meet such footprints? In the evening? In the snow? And even with a * hangover *? Oh !!!!
      Igor, thank you for the interesting cycle! hi
      1. +7
        19 February 2021 20: 58
        Sergey "drunkenness does not lead to good"! To be honest, from "forensic medicine" I firmly learned a typical example that delirium tremens comes to the domestic "consumer" in the form of "green devils"! By the nature of the work, I came across this more than once or twice, everyone had “green devils”, “squirrels” only among simulators! Proven by medical examinations. That this is a mentality or a DNA flaw, at the level of education, I won’t lie, I don’t know. But a fact!
        1. +10
          19 February 2021 21: 15
          Sports then, the 1951 Boston Marathon, won by Japan's Shigeki Tanaka wearing Onitsuka sneakers with a tabi-like outsole and cut, and that's a fact. hi
          1. +10
            19 February 2021 21: 19

            Something like this! hi
            1. +9
              19 February 2021 22: 06
              Phil77 (Sergey): About like this!

              Sergei good , for such a photo you have a separate respect.
              I shoveled the entire Internet, and found only one photo of a Japanese soldier in a tabi. request
              Igor-Nazariy is right, there are only pictures on the Internet. All the more gratitude to him - he raised such a little-studied topic and nevertheless managed to illustrate it normally. Unlike authors who have taken the fashion to write articles on widely known topics in one text, stating, look for illustrations yourself, the Internet will help you. The fact that Viknik and Konstantin told them about this has already become a meme at VO
              1. +7
                20 February 2021 06: 48
                Hi Dmitry! Yes. There is such a weakness. To rummage in the internet and look for something unusual. Thank you for your response! hi
                But, to be honest, I was looking for photos of TRACKS from tabi. And I came across this information. In my opinion, quite interesting.
                1. +5
                  20 February 2021 06: 56
                  Just an album with illustrations.
                  A couple more years on VO - and I will not kick the pictures as it was before.
              2. +4
                20 February 2021 12: 03
                Japanese archives, apparently, are not indexed very well by Runet search engines. What can you find there in tabi: [media=https://www.digital.archives.go.jp/DAS/meta/MetSearch.cgi?DEF_XSL=default&SUM_KIND=MetaSummary&SUM_NUMBER=20&META_KIND=NOFRAME&IS_KIND=summary_normal&IS_SCH=META&IS_STYLE=default&IS_TYPE=meta&DB _ID =G9100001EXTERNAL&GRP_ID=G9100001&IS_START=1&IS_EXTSCH=&IS_TAG_S1=InD&IS_KEY_S1=%E8%B6%B3%E8%A2%8B&IS_TMP_S6=d_t_search_0&IS_KEY_S6=&IS_TAG_S6=d_t&IS_LGC_S 6=AND&IS_TMP_S7=c_t_search_3&IS_KEY_S7=SRG+BST+KNM&IS_TAG_S7=c_t&IS_LGC_S7=AND&DIS_CHK_OR_S7=SRG&DIS_CHK_OR_S7=BST&DIS_CHK_OR_S7=KNM&IS_TMP_S8= cont_flg_search_0&IS_LGC_S8=AND&IS_TAG_S8=cont_flg&IS_KEY_S8=&IS_NUMBER=100&LIST_TYPE=default&IS_LIST_ON_OF=off&LIST_VIEW=&ON_LYD=on].
              3. +5
                20 February 2021 18: 43
                Good evening, my friend!
                Here, if you please. At your request. More tabi.




                Tabi ... and Japanese soldiers on the load. wink
                1. +4
                  20 February 2021 18: 50
                  Bravo!
                  An article by Igor with illustrations by Sergey and with links kindly provided ycuce234-san (-) just a miracle. I haven't seen such interesting material for a long time
                  1. +3
                    20 February 2021 18: 58
                    With no less interesting and curious comments by * Richard *.
                  2. +2
                    20 February 2021 20: 15

                    Here's another. Forgot to choose. Alas for me! fool
                2. +4
                  20 February 2021 19: 24
                  Impressive! Taking off my hat. Are these the same archives?
                  1. +3
                    20 February 2021 19: 28
                    By no means. These are the fruits of my wanderings on the Internet. As I already wrote to Dmitry, I love * wandering * around the unknown. I brought them to the search engine * tabi * and set off. wink
                  2. +3
                    20 February 2021 19: 32
                    But, alas, what I was looking for ... did not find. recourse And so I wanted to see the traces, precisely the traces of the tabi. It remains only to fantasize. winked
                    1. +2
                      20 February 2021 19: 34
                      Well, as an option - buy a pair (via the same Internet), put on shoes and walk along the beach (ours will do too) laughing
                      1. +3
                        20 February 2021 19: 46
                        Ha, ha, ha! I have no extra five thousand.

                        For these they ask for 5100 ₽.
    3. +3
      19 February 2021 21: 43
      As a hunter, I'll tell you, I would too)))
  6. +11
    19 February 2021 19: 05
    Thank you, really interesting, but I've never heard of "hooves".
    Which country is the next article about shoes?
    Keep it up Leader!
    1. +17
      19 February 2021 19: 14
      About the poorest participant in the Second World War.
      1. +6
        19 February 2021 19: 20
        Leader, intrigued ... well, everyone will rush to compare the GDP of the participating countries belay we demand a hint from the audience ... what continent is it on?
        1. +16
          19 February 2021 19: 25
          Europe. At our construction sites, they say about the slovenly - "like a captured Romanian" laughing
          1. +8
            19 February 2021 19: 27
            Well ... but the Feathers on the officers' hats laughing and so real - Tyrili Everything that is not buried!
            Ps That would be about the hats of countries - a series of articles feel
            1. +4
              19 February 2021 23: 01
              Quote: Hunter 2
              Ps That would be about the hats of countries - a series of articles

              And about gloves, leggings, mittens. It seems routine, not noticeable, but so necessary things.
          2. +9
            19 February 2021 19: 33
            I confirm! Moreover, the area of ​​distribution of the ideoma, from Murmansk to Dubossary.
          3. +5
            19 February 2021 19: 37
            And they were once rich?
            I don't remember something ... request
          4. +8
            19 February 2021 19: 38
            By the way, the Leader, when I just signed up for VO, suggested a topic (I think to Calibr-Shpakovsky, I don't remember exactly) about the influence of weather on wars and battles.
            He excused himself, saying that it was necessary to collect material.
            In no case would I want you to quarrel, perhaps he is already working on the material.
            I think many will be interested in the topic, and the main thing is that VO readers would be interested.
            Naturally work (in my opinion) is endless.
            Can you take it?
            No thanks, everything is for the benefit of the readers.
            1. +5
              19 February 2021 22: 49
              Comrade Blacksmith, even VO is not able to digest all the "Wishlist" members of the forum. What we have is already great!)
          5. +12
            19 February 2021 20: 53
            Igor hi , thank! The same footwear for geisha and special forces is really cool in Japanese! good
            1. +6
              20 February 2021 00: 58
              judging by the fact that there are socks under the geta, they must be tabi, otherwise you will not wear geta.
              but yujo good there could be a bare foot. smile
            2. +4
              20 February 2021 06: 38
              A gift before the February holidays?
              1. +7
                20 February 2021 06: 43
                Just thinking out loud ... about the war and about the ladies. smile
                1. +5
                  20 February 2021 06: 53
                  "Where did you get such pictures, doctor?" (from).
                  1. +4
                    20 February 2021 07: 53
                    "The planet is sick ... No, not a virus ...
                    The Earth is sick with humanity ...
                    Like mold it spread throughout the world,
                    Living on its way ruining. "(C)
                    1. +3
                      20 February 2021 08: 46
                      “And Nature's voice repeats:
                      In your power, in your power
                      So that the Earth does not split
                      Into meaningless parts "(c).
                      1. +2
                        20 February 2021 09: 38
                        "Here, of course, they gave the authorities
                        A burst from a machine gun
                        And then someone fell
                        somehow at once for some reason
                        Someone fell to the ground ... "(c)
                      2. +1
                        20 February 2021 12: 43
                        “We crawl
                        We embrace the hillocks ”(c).
                      3. 0
                        20 February 2021 22: 53
                        "We fly, waddle in the darkness" (c)
                      4. +1
                        20 February 2021 23: 10
                        "And I want to fly" (c).
                      5. +3
                        20 February 2021 23: 21
                        "Naked women are flying across the sky, a rocket hit the bathhouse." (C)
                      6. +2
                        21 February 2021 06: 26
                        "The crane flies across the sky" (c).
                      7. +1
                        21 February 2021 08: 18
                        "Look, pilot, what a blue sky ..." (c)
                      8. +1
                        21 February 2021 09: 35
                        “I want to see the sky.
                        You take me with you ”(c).
                      9. 0
                        21 February 2021 09: 37
                        "What a blue sky,
                        We are not supporters of robbery ,,, "(c)
                      10. +1
                        21 February 2021 09: 40
                        "Change the wording" (c).
                      11. +1
                        21 February 2021 09: 51
                        "He shouted:" There is a mistake!
                        I'm a Jew! .. "
                        And they say to him: “Not too much here!
                        Get out, out of the door! "(C)
                      12. +1
                        21 February 2021 11: 37
                        “And even the founder
                        Marxism "(c).
                      13. 0
                        21 February 2021 11: 39
                        "What if they are very decent people" (c)
                      14. +1
                        21 February 2021 11: 49
                        “For the fact that the Jewess shot the leader.
                        Because she missed ”(c).
                      15. 0
                        21 February 2021 11: 55
                        "They say, Hemingway, in childhood was also a Jew" (c)
                      16. +1
                        21 February 2021 13: 36
                        “Tastes, brother, are not Russian,
                        My father inspired, growing gloomy ”(c).
                      17. 0
                        21 February 2021 14: 00
                        "My father is a drunkard,
                        For a glass stretches "(c)
                      18. +1
                        21 February 2021 16: 25
                        "And the soldier, my kasatik,
                        Just vodka with me ”(c).
                      19. +1
                        21 February 2021 16: 35
                        "The soldier is always healthy, the soldier is ready for anything!" (C)
                      20. 0
                        21 February 2021 17: 39
                        “The formidable battle blaze will jump up.
                        And it's time to get horses under the saddle ”(c).
                      21. +1
                        21 February 2021 17: 55
                        "Ivan Vasilich the Terrible was his name,
                        For being a serious, respectable person "(c)
                      22. +1
                        21 February 2021 18: 44
                        Favorite A. K. Tolstoy.

                        “Prince, is my help needed?
                        You see, ours did not catch up with me ”(c).
                      23. +2
                        21 February 2021 18: 52
                        I don’t know whose.

                        "Tell me, prince, what scum
                        Divorced at the Kremlin walls!
                        At the place of execution of Pugach,
                        There is canned food from Ilyich! (C)

                      24. +2
                        21 February 2021 19: 17
                        “Take me, take me to him.
                        I want to see this person! " (from).
                      25. +2
                        21 February 2021 19: 23
                        "To the stream, as if a person is wired, then everything seems to him on end" (S. Svirid Petrovich Golokhvastov).
                      26. +5
                        21 February 2021 19: 53


                        But how did he formulate it, eh? The song!
                      27. +1
                        21 February 2021 19: 55
                        “Found, you know, a kind grandfather” (c).
                      28. +1
                        21 February 2021 20: 50
                        "He took out a grenade, threw it out the window,
                        Grandpa is old, he doesn't care "(c)
                      29. +2
                        21 February 2021 21: 05
                        "Everything will pass: both sorrow and joy" (c).
                      30. +1
                        21 February 2021 21: 12
                        "A sad demon, a spirit of exile, hovered over the sinful earth" (c)
                      31. +1
                        21 February 2021 21: 20
                        "Queen Tamara lived" (c).
                      32. 0
                        21 February 2021 21: 39
                        "The queen sends a feast with her magnificent voice and gaze" (c)
                      33. +1
                        21 February 2021 21: 51
                        "My diamond crown" (c).
                      34. +1
                        21 February 2021 22: 01
                        At first, this piece came out in samizdat, and they immediately stuck the klikuha "Diamond my zvizdets" on it, and as soon as the author was not persuaded.
                      35. +1
                        21 February 2021 22: 14
                        Why is there Samizdatovsky? Are we talking about Kataev's memories?
                      36. +1
                        21 February 2021 22: 18
                        Yes, about that. And why in samizdat, I have no idea, but the first one I saw was just such a publication.
                      37. +2
                        22 February 2021 06: 38
                        I came across in the Collected Works.
                      38. +2
                        21 February 2021 19: 47
                        But first....

                        laughing
                      39. +2
                        21 February 2021 19: 56
                        "Panochka died" (c).
                      40. 0
                        21 February 2021 21: 38
                        The spouse came and corrected: "Pannochka not only died, but is already decomposed." request
                      41. +2
                        21 February 2021 21: 52
                        "The forces of nature do not care about speech" (c).

                        I hope my spouse isn't grumbling.
                      42. 0
                        21 February 2021 21: 59
                        Why grumble? And not in her habits. Come up, look, read and laugh. "Boys" are having fun.
                      43. +1
                        21 February 2021 22: 12
                        Maybe instead of entertainment, a feat is scheduled?

                        “Praise, women, men.
                        Man for praise
                        It will take a month from the clouds.
                        And the dust will sweep away in the corner "(c).
                      44. +2
                        21 February 2021 21: 02
                        Tarantino's lady would say: "Raise my hem!"

                      45. +1
                        21 February 2021 21: 07
                        Fi ... how uncivilized Yes Is there the next photo? feel
                      46. +2
                        21 February 2021 21: 14
                        Beauty and a beautiful body cannot be "uncivilized", uncivilized perception ... for some.
                      47. +1
                        21 February 2021 21: 17
                        I totally disagree am But expose a photo, angles from the side and from the back ... well, to criticize you - deservedly bully and we ... will brand you with shame, but - then wink
                      48. +1
                        21 February 2021 21: 36
                        ... to criticize you is deserved


                        I'm not going to expose my ass. laughing laughing laughing
                      49. 0
                        21 February 2021 22: 00
                        That's disgusting... negative Why Bui (a float attached to the bottom) for us to look at You belay ??? Auntie was asked to Expand wassat
                      50. +2
                        21 February 2021 22: 03
                        Auntie is already there and Phil likes it, Vera too. smile
                      51. 0
                        22 February 2021 14: 38
                        Lyosh, you look, some kind of prick was too lazy and pushed me and me along the whole branch of minuses. laughing There are some freaks in this world.
            3. Fat
              +1
              21 February 2021 18: 20
              That's what I expected from you! Always find decent girlish images.
              Now one thing, a lady mustn't get stuck successfully
              According to the shown ritual
              Wouldn't mind and leave and ...
              I will no longer talk about those who called themselves the sacred wind.
              This is Bro's topic, but a separate one.
              Do not find?
              1. +1
                21 February 2021 19: 12
                Always find decent girlish images.


                But they are not always decent. And the theme ... try it yourself, I'm not very good at samurai. smile
                1. Fat
                  +2
                  21 February 2021 20: 32
                  Nope .. The best authors are))))))) and right next to them, about the shoes.
                2. +1
                  21 February 2021 22: 43
                  I just insist that she (auntie) be deployed ... to the forest in front of us in front of us feel To deserve criticism!
                  I like it or not - sleep, my beauty (s).
          6. +1
            19 February 2021 21: 50
            Quote: Leader of the Redskins
            Europe. At our construction sites, they say about the slovenly - "like a captured Romanian" laughing

            Do you think the prisoners of the Red Army looked better? ... the prisoners all look the same
      2. +5
        19 February 2021 19: 20
        Kuomintang? Or Ethiopia?
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        2. +3
          19 February 2021 21: 22
          Quote: 3x3zsave
          Kuomintang? Or Ethiopia?

          We know about the Kuomintang, but about Ethiopia, it would be very interesting.
          1. +5
            19 February 2021 21: 41
            it would be very interesting.
            Don't you know that the Ethiopians fought and fought and fought, that most Europeans should be ashamed of their "participation" in WWII?
            1. +1
              20 February 2021 10: 51
              Quote: 3x3zsave
              Don't you know that the Ethiopians fought and fought and fought, that most Europeans should be ashamed of their "participation" in WWII?

              The Europeans also "partisan", only on the side of Hitler, how many Waffen SS divisions were partisan, and hundreds of punitive and police battalions.
      3. Fat
        0
        21 February 2021 18: 07
        About Romanians? Malamyzhniki?
        Oh, how little respect their prisoners their allies ...
        So much time has passed.
        It's time to think about why an essentially poor country fit into the massacre of such a military headquarters
  7. +3
    19 February 2021 23: 13
    "In 1942 in Papua New Guinea ..."

    Judging by the rubber tread - soft, heavily spiked and with rubber spikes, shoes were primarily designed for the jungle, swamps, rice fields. Now similar footwear - football lawn sneakers, spikes.
    In addition, the adaptability to the conditions of the swamp suggests a possible factory and periodic field antifungal impregnation of such shoes - the feet in them will inevitably be wet all the time. From other countries, for comparative purposes, it is worth looking at those who have similar natural conditions - the Vietnamese, the countries of Indonesia and Oceania.
    1. +2
      20 February 2021 11: 57
      Quote: ycuce234-san
      From other countries, for comparative purposes, it is worth looking at those who have similar natural conditions - the Vietnamese, the countries of Indonesia and Oceania.

      Well, the Vietnamese have wore either Soviet shoes, or Chinese sneakers, and before that French ones, since 1963.
      1. +1
        20 February 2021 12: 29
        In the internet there is a photo of modern Vietnamese military men in "statutory sneaker boots" - you can't fool biomechanics, as they say. In this regard, it is even more interesting when, for the swampy jungle, they figure out how to adapt aquanos for rocky beaches.
        1. +1
          20 February 2021 13: 47
          Quote: ycuce234-san
          In the internet there is a photo of modern Vietnamese military men in "statutory sneaker boots" - you can't fool biomechanics, as they say.

          I thought it was a Chinese invention, they invented it themselves.
  8. +5
    19 February 2021 23: 55
    It happened historically and geographically - our fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers fought on the fields of Russia and Europe. All right
    indeed, everything is true both historically and geographically.
    But there was also another front of hostilities. And no less significant - the Pacific ... Well, our compatriots dealt their last blows in that terrible war in August 1945.
    By a strange coincidence of one of my acquaintances, in August 1945 FATHER fought with the Japanese, not a compatriot. So maybe our grandfathers and fathers inflicted the last blows in a terrible war in the war with Japan? Although already for many people living beyond the Urals, we, the Far East, are compatriots. hi
    1. +4
      20 February 2021 08: 48
      This is the trouble of our time. It is easier to go to Chinese resorts from the Far East than to get to Moscow or the Crimea.
      It's good that everything is fine with air travel.
  9. +5
    20 February 2021 01: 47
    The boots seem to be norms, it looks like they are made of well-made leather, only the nails in the sole are superfluous for civilian life. Instead, a rubber ribbed knurl, and I would love to wear it on a woolen sock in winter.
    But the "hooves" - yes, a purely Japanese perversion. But if they are accustomed to this from childhood, why not?
  10. +4
    20 February 2021 06: 37
    Very interesting. So much rubber was a strategic raw material that they didn’t get it.

    We used euonymus and kok-sagyz. And then - synthesis. And all the options for obtaining remain in history.
    1. +6
      20 February 2021 09: 12
      It is convenient to climb a rope with knots in "hoofed" boots
  11. +3
    20 February 2021 10: 23
    My compliments to the author. Great article.
  12. +4
    20 February 2021 18: 27
    “In the morning I saw two dead Japanese soldiers, who were apparently looking out and sitting in a large leafless tree, when they were killed by preparatory artillery fire. One of them hung from a bough. Christmas tree. Another soldier was lying under a tree. His leg, which lay on the other side of the tree, was torn off, and the gaiter and trouser leg were still neatly put on it. In addition to their disfigured state, I noted that both soldiers were shod in high leather boots It was the first time I saw this type of footwear among the Japanese. All the enemies I saw on Peleliu wore canvas "tabi" with rubber soles with a separated thumb."
    Eugene Slage "With the Old Guard" Part 2. Chapter "March through the Island".
  13. Fat
    0
    21 February 2021 12: 59
    Thank. An important detail. I have sinned. Never paid attention.
    It seemed that tarpaulin boots and footcloths were the pinnacle of military thought

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