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Patauga jungle boot
TypeCanvas and rubber jungle boot
Place of originFrance
Service history
Used bySee Users
WarsFirst Indochina War
Korean War
Vietnam War
Laotian Civil War
Cambodian Civil War
Cambodian–Vietnamese War
Sino-Vietnamese War
Algerian War
Cameroon War
Suez Crisis
Portuguese Colonial War
Angolan Civil War
Mozambican Civil War
Rhodesian Bush War
South African Border War
Chadian Civil War (1965–1979)
Chadian–Libyan War
Toyota War
Tuareg rebellion (1990–1995)
Sand War
Ifni War
Western Sahara War
Western Sahara conflict
Mauritania–Senegal Border War
Nigerian Civil War
Somali Civil War
Djiboutian Civil War
1967 Six-Day War
1967-1970 War of Attrition
Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon
Black September
1973 Yom Kippur War
Lebanese Civil War
1978 South Lebanon conflict
1982 Lebanon War
South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000)
Republic of the Congo Civil War (1993–1994)
Republic of the Congo Civil War (1997–1999)
First Ivorian Civil War
Second Ivorian Civil War
Mali War
Islamist insurgency in the Sahel
Central African Bush War
Central African Republic Civil War
Production history
DesignerFrench Army Quartermaster Corps
Palladium Boots
René Elissabide
Designed1947
ManufacturerFrench Army Quartermaster Corps
Palladium Boots
SAS Pataugas
Wissart
Aigle
Au Coq
Bonusage
Morvan
Paraflac
Paul Boyé
Vernon
Bata Shoes (Canada)
Mafipro (Portugal)
Teva Naot (Israel)
Sturm MIL-TEC (Germany)
Produced1950–Present
VariantsSee Variants

The Patauga jungle boot or French Army bush boot (French: chaussure de brousse or chaussure de brousse de l'armée française), commonly known as the "splasher" (Patauga, a phonetic spelling of the French "pâte au gaz", meaning '[rubber] paste with gas'), was a lightweight cotton canvas and rubber boot worn by the members of the French Armed Forces when deployed overseas. First introduced in the early 1950s, the Patauga boot, along with the French M1949 Bush Hat, became an icon associated with France's decolonization wars in Indochina and Algeria throughout the 1950s and 1960s. The Pataugas boots were popular not only among members of the French military, but also among civilians engaging in outdoor activities. Its design was subsequently copied and adopted by several militaries worldwide.

History

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Variants

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The Paladium model

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Modern civilian iteration of the Paladium "Pampa" boot, 2018.

The Patauga model

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The Italian Army model

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Introduced in the late 1950s, the Italian Army's version of the Patauga boot consisted of a high-top khaki or olive canvas upper portion provided with 4 metal lace eyelets and 5 speed-lace eyelets, a toe cap and black rubber outsole, and was produced in two variants: one basic model lacking ventilation eyelets (Italian: Stivaletti) and a second model, designated "landing boots" (Italian: Stivaletti da sbarco, Scalfarotii), in which the outsoles were provided with 5 fast drainage eyelets – 3 on the inside arch and 2 on the outside –, and a slip-resistant "ripple" pattern tread. Also known as the "Amphibians, Lagoon, Italian Army" (Italian: Anfibi Lagunari Esercito Italiano), the landing boots were issued to the soldiers of the Lagunari Regiment "Serenissima", an Italian Army amphibious infantry unit formed in 1957 at Venice, who wore them while operating in the marshy ground environment typical of the coastal lagoons in the northern Adriatic Sea – the Venetian Lagoon, the Marano Lagoon, and the Grado Lagoon. The Landing boots were also provided to the Italian Navy's 1st San Marco Naval Infantry Regiment.

The Indigenous Combat Boot

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Developed by the U.S. Army Natick Laboratories in Natick, Massachusetts in the early 1960s, the Indigenous Combat Boot was an American-designed jungle boot derived from the French Patauga boot for use in Vietnam. It consisted of a high-top black canvas upper portion provided with 8 metal lace eyelets, a toe cap and outsole made of rubber in the same colour that contained an anti-Punji stick metal plate on the inside. Other features that distinguished the Indigenous Combat Boot from the original French model were the two screened drainage eyelets on the inner arch and the plain round rubber ankle reinforcements lacking the manufacturer's markings. Like the Vibram-soled U.S. Army Jungle boots, the tread gave poor traction and tended to get clogged with mud. In addition, since they were produced in Japan using Japanese foot lasts, most South Vietnamese soldiers often found the indigenous boots to be ill-suited to the local conditions and uncomfortable to wear.[1]

The Bata boot

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In response to the complaints regarding the indigenous combat boot, the Canadian-based Bata Shoes Company began developing in 1968 a new, improved jungle boot that used anthropometric Vietnamese foot lasts produced by Natick Laboratories, bringing it closer to the French Patauga design favoured by the South Vietnamese. Like its predecessor, the new jungle boot consisted of a cotton canvas upper portion, sometimes reinforced by metal rivets at the base of the lacing system, and a toe cap and ribbed outsole made of black rubber; it also retained the screened drainage eyelets on the inner arch and the (Bata-marked) round rubber ankle reinforcements, though the latter was often absent in the high-top version. Made under contract in Canada, the improved Bata Jungle Boots were produced in three sizes (6-eyelets, 7-eyelets, and 11-eyelets), being also available in khaki and olive green versions.[2][3]

Other variants

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Combat use

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A patrol of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) guerrillas in Jordan, early 1969, wearing khaki or olive green Pataugas boots of the low-top, high-top and double-buckle ankle cuff variants.
A squad of five PAIGC guerrillas, with four of them wearing khaki or olive green Pataugas boots, manning a checkpoint in Guinea-Bissau, 1974.

Civilian use

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Users

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Notes

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  1. ^ ARVN/CIDG Boots at VietnamGear.com
  2. ^ Conboy, Bowra and Chappell, War in Cambodia 1970–75 (1989), pp. 39–40.
  3. ^ Conboy and McCouaig, The War in Laos 1960–75 (1989), pp. 19; 42.
  4. ^ Windrow and Chappell, The Algerian War 1954–1962 (1997), p. 46.
  5. ^ Abbott, Rodrigues and Volstad, Modern African Wars (2): Angola and Mozambique 1961–74 (1988), pp. 43–44.
  6. ^ Jowett and Ruggeri, Modern African Wars (5): The Nigerian-Biafran War 1967–70 (2016), pp. 46–47.
  7. ^ Windrow, Braby and Lyles, French Foreign Legion Paratroops (1985), p. 58.
  8. ^ Windrow and Chappell, The Algerian War 1954–1962 (1997), pp. 43; 44–45; 47.
  9. ^ Windrow and Chappell, The French Indochina War 1946–1954 (1998), pp. 11; 45.
  10. ^ Pivetta, Soldats d'Algérie, 1954–1962, Armes Militaria Magazine (2002), p. 52.
  11. ^ Windrow and Shumate, French Foreign Légionnaire versus Viet Minh Insurgent: North Vietnam 1948–52 (2018), pp. 10–11.
  12. ^ Conboy and McCouaig, The War in Laos 1960–75 (1989), pp. 19; 42.
  13. ^ Conboy and Greer, War in Laos 1954–1975 (1994), p. 6.
  14. ^ Conboy, The Erawan War – Volume 3: The Royal Lao Armed Forces 1961–1974 (2022), pp. 11–12.
  15. ^ Katz and Volstad, Israeli Elite Forces since 1948 (1988), pp. 59; 61, Plate K1.
  16. ^ Katz and Volstad, Israeli Defense Forces since 1973 (1990), pp. 56, Plate E2; 62, Plate L1.
  17. ^ Heitman and Hannon, Modern African Wars (3): South-West Africa (1991), pp. 43–44.
  18. ^ Pitta, Fannell and McCouaig, South African Special Forces (1993), p. 60.
  19. ^ Conboy and Simon McCouaig, The NVA and Viet Cong (1992), p. 59.
  20. ^ Emering, Weapons and Field Gear of the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong (1998), pp. 56–57.
  21. ^ Rottman and Delf, North Vietnamese Army Soldier 1958–75 (2009), p. 24.
  22. ^ Serra, L'armée nord-vietnamienne, 1954–1972 : Uniformes et équipements (1re partie), Militaria Magazine (2012), pp. 70–75.
  23. ^ Serra, L'armée nord-vietnamienne, 1954–1972 : Uniformes et équipements (2e partie), Militaria Magazine (2012), pp. 34–39.
  24. ^ Windrow and Shumate, French Foreign Légionnaire versus Viet Minh Insurgent: North Vietnam 1948–52 (2018), pp. 14–15.
  25. ^ McNab and Shumate, US Air Cavalry Trooper versus North Vietnamese Soldier: Vietnam 1965–68 (2020), p. 15.
  26. ^ Laffin and Mike Chappell, Arab Armies of the Middle East Wars 1948–73 (1982), p. 36.
  27. ^ Katz, Russel and Volstad, Armies in Lebanon 1982–84 (1985), pp. 43–44.
  28. ^ Katz and Volstad, Arab Armies of the Middle East Wars (2) (1988), pp. 44–45.
  29. ^ Abbott, Rodrigues and Volstad, Modern African Wars (2): Angola and Mozambique 1961–74 (1988), p. 39; 41; 42–43.
  30. ^ Rodrigues, The Overseas Campaigns 1961–1974 – Guinea-Angola-Mozambique – Army (I) (2000), pp. 15–16.

See also

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References

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  • Chris McNab and Johnny Shumate, US Air Cavalry Trooper versus North Vietnamese Soldier: Vietnam 1965–68, Combat series 51, Osprey Publishing Ltd, Oxford 2020. ISBN 9781472841759
  • Edward J. Emering, Weapons and Field Gear of the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., Atglen, PA 1998. ISBN 0-7643-0583-2
  • Frédéric Serra, L'armée nord-vietnamienne, 1954–1972 : Uniformes et équipements (1re partie), Militaria Magazine No. 320, March 2012, Histoire & Collections, Paris, pp. 70–75. ISSN 0753-1877 (in French)
  • Frédéric Serra, L'armée nord-vietnamienne, 1954–1972 : Uniformes et équipements (2e partie), Militaria Magazine No. 322, May 2012, Histoire & Collections, Paris, pp. 34–39. ISSN 0753-1877 (In French)
  • Gordon L. Rottman and Ramiro Bujeiro, Army of the Republic of Vietnam 1955–75, Men-at-arms series 458, Osprey Publishing Ltd, Oxford 2010. ISBN 978-1-84908-182-5
  • Gordon L. Rottman and Brian Delf, North Vietnamese Army Soldier 1958–75, Warrior series 135, Osprey Publishing Ltd, Oxford 2009. ISBN 978-184603-371-1
  • Helmoed-Romer Heitman and Paul Hannon, Modern African Wars (3): South-West Africa, Men-at-arms series 242, Osprey Publishing Ltd, London 1991. ISBN 978-1-85532-122-9
  • John Laffin and Mike Chappell, Arab Armies of the Middle East Wars 1948–73, Men-at-Arms series 128, Osprey Publishing Ltd, London 1982. ISBN 0-85045-451-4
  • Kenneth Conboy and Don Greer, War in Laos 1954–1975, Squadron/Signal Publications, Inc., Carrollton, Texas 1994. ISBN 0-89747-315-9
  • Kenneth Conboy and Simon McCouaig, The War in Laos 1960–75, Men-at-arms series 217, Osprey Publishing Ltd, London 1989. ISBN 978-0-85045-938-8
  • Kenneth Conboy and Simon McCouaig, The NVA and Viet Cong, Elite series 38, Osprey Publishing Ltd, Oxford 1992. ISBN 9781855321625
  • Kenneth Conboy, Kenneth Bowra and Mike Chappell, War in Cambodia 1970–75, Men-at-arms series 209, Osprey Publishing Ltd, London 1989. ISBN 0-85045-851-X
  • Ken Conboy, The Erawan War – Volume 3: The Royal Lao Armed Forces 1961–1974, Asia@War Volume 37, Helion & Company Limited, Warwick UK 2022. ISBN 978-1-804512-87-6
  • Lee E. Russell and Mike Chappell, Armies of the Vietnam War (2), Men-at-arms 143, Osprey Publishing Ltd, London 1983. ISBN 0-85045-514-6
  • Samuel M. Katz, Lee E. Russel and Ron Volstad, Armies in Lebanon 1982–84, Men-at-Arms series 165, Osprey Publishing Ltd, London 1985. ISBN 0-85045-602-9
  • Samuel M. Katz and Ron Volstad, Arab Armies of the Middle East Wars (2), Men-at-Arms series 194, Osprey Publishing Ltd, London 1988. ISBN 0-85045-800-5
  • Patrice Pivetta, Soldats d'Algérie, 1954–1962, Armes Militaria Magazine No. 200, March 2002, Histoire & Collections, Paris, pp. 13–54. ISSN 0753-1877 (In French)
  • Peter Abbott, Manuel Ribeiro Rodrigues and Ron Volstad, Modern African Wars (2): Angola and Mozambique 1961–74, Men-at-Arms series 202, Osprey Publishing Ltd, London 1988. ISBN 0-85045-843-9
  • Philip S. Jowett and Raffaele Ruggeri, Modern African Wars (5): The Nigerian-Biafran War 1967–70, Men-at-arms series 507, Osprey Publishing Ltd, Oxford 2016. ISBN 978 1 4728 1609 2
  • Martin Windrow, Wayne Braby and Kevin Lyles, French Foreign Legion Paratroops, Elite series 6, Osprey Publishing Ltd, London 1985. ISBN 9780850456295
  • Martin Windrow and Mike Chappell, The Algerian War 1954–1962, Men-at-arms series 312, Osprey Publishing Ltd, Oxford 1997. ISBN 1-85532-658-2
  • Martin Windrow and Mike Chappell, The French Indochina War 1946–1954, Men-at-arms series 322, Osprey Publishing Ltd, Oxford 1998. ISBN 1-85532-789-9
  • Martin Windrow and Johnny Shumate, French Foreign Légionnaire versus Viet Minh Insurgent: North Vietnam 1948–52, Combat series 36, Osprey Publishing Ltd, Oxford 2018. ISBN 9781472828910
  • Manuel A. Ribeiro Rodrigues, The Overseas Campaigns 1961–1974 – Guinea-Angola-Mozambique – Army (I), Edições Destarte Lda., Lisbon 2000. ISBN 972-8496-14-1 (Bi-lingual edition)
  • Phillip Katcher and Mike Chappell, Armies of the Vietnam War 1962–1975, Men-at-arms series 104, Osprey Publishing Ltd, London 1980. ISBN 9780850453607
  • Robert Pitta, Jeff Fannell and Simon McCouaig, South African Special Forces, Elite series 47, Osprey Publishing Ltd, London 1993. ISBN 185532-295-1
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