JNA YPA Yugoslav Peoples Army M55 Infantry Black Leather Borovo Boots

JNA YPA Yugoslav Peoples Army M55 Combat Black Leather Boots EU 42 US 9 DHL Express Worldwide

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The Vojničke čizme (literally; Military boots), were combat boots of Yugoslavian origin, designed for and issued to the YPA (Yugoslavian People's Army) firstly in 1955, as part of Army modernisation program, together with the then new, M-55 wool combat uniform which was introduced in the same year, as it sole designation clearly points. They were actually their first actual combat boots, since the YPA was, until their appearance and adoption, using (even in that time slowly obsolete) World War II German (Wehrmacht) influenced classic hobnailed leather shoes paired along with ordinary canvas gaiters, based on the Wehrmacht's Schnürschuhe and Gamschen (which were back in the second half of WWII period worn extensively by Heer, Gebirgsjäger and Waffen SS , as the alternative to usual leather jackboots, the Schaftstiefel) or eventually leather jackboots (only by YPA officers, however). Although being the newly-formed Cold War army, the YPA was generally copying weaponry and equipment from the dissolved Wehrmacht, (which the Yugoslavian partisans were encountering in many occasions during the war on their front) as far as 1960s, when they finally started taking influence from the Eastern bloc, that is, from the newly formed Warsaw pact armies instead. However, these boots were still an exception of that, since they were actually neither a copy of, nor based on any then already existing. It can be eventually said that they were influenced by well known German jackboots, the previously mentioned Schaftstiefel, (worn firstly by the entire Wehrmacht and later mostly by officers in second half of the war) with eyelets and buckles added and sole modified to then modern standards (hobnailed one replaced by rubber and wooden layers, featuring screw reinforcement).

Serbia was originally one of the six Socialist Republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, formed in 1946 following the end of the Second World War. Beginning in 1991, the SFRY began to disintegrate as the various republics voiced their desire for sovereignty. By 2003, all that remained of the old federal republic was Serbia and Montenegro, which remained a confederation with that name until 2006 when Montenegro became its own state.

Size of boots:

eu: 42

uk: 8.5

us: 9

Length: 28cm

Weight: 2200g

ITEM NO. C171