To blanco, or not to blanco? That is my question.

[Didier]

I am under the impression that the general consensus is that British troops as a whole blancoed their webbing during WW2, but was that practice absolutely universal?

I have quite a lot of photos of British servicemen at home, all taken at Arromanches' Mulberry harbour in 1944, and I am not always convinced that their webbing had been systematically blancoed, although, of course, black & white shots may be misleading.



Maybe some of you on here can tell me more?


Arromanches, on 7th June 1944 (post-war postcard)