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Uniforms

posted 18 years ago by peter-501
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The uniforms are good, but the film starts in 1929 (the year is actually given by mistake as 1922), and the Italians are already wearing the Model 1928 pith helmet. Despite the name, these pith helmets weren't widely adopted until the invasion of Ethiopia in 1936!

[–] Hollywood_Black 18 years ago

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[–] Sid-Blitzen 16 years ago

What kind of headgear would they have been wearing? The pith helmet that they had in the 1911 invasion of Libya?