WW2 Reenacting Supply and Equipment Catalogs

This lists supply catalogs. Supply catalogs are books filled with descriptions and nomenclature of various items used by different branches.

Signal Corps and Radio and Telephone

The instrument sketch book Weston Electrical Instruments 1941 – A sales book showing various products. Some of these civilian models may have ended up in Signal Corps hands. Also nice to have a reference guide in case you come across an obscure electrical item that you’re not sure about.

Signal Supply Catalog 1945- SubClass 6r M-Z Tools, Pigeons Class 9, Meteorological Class 7 – A partial listing of the whole Signal Corps Supply Catalog. Consisting of the total stock numbers and nomenclature of all items available to the Signal Corps.

Signal Training Pamphlet No 4 Wo Code No 8256 – Construction and Maintenance of Lines Poled Cable and Multi-Airline 1948 – A post-war British Army guide on pole construction

Automatic Electric Telephone Supplies 1950 –Part One and Part Two. A product sales book showing telephone supplies available in 1950. Good for cross-referencing items. Includes hardware, wood, insulators, tools, wire, cable, cords, terminals, power, and miscellaneous items.

Medical Department

Combat Medics of WWII An Exhibit of the National D-Day Memorial, Bedford, VA – Good, quick outline of combat medics from all nations both Allied and Axis.

Medical Supply Catalog Med1 to Med3 March 1944 – This is the medical department’s complete catalog of available products. It lists items available, the associated stock number, as well as the price. It also includes pictures of some of the times. It’s a beefy PDF file that you download from my Google Drive. The Med-dept.com contains a wealth of information that goes into more detail on some of the items in the catalog, such as individual first aid packs.

Medical Department Supply Catalog 1942 – This is the medical department’s complete catalog of available products. It lists items available, the associated stock number, as well as the price. It’s a beefy PDF file that you download from my Google Drive. The Med-dept.com contains a wealth of information that goes into more detail on some of the items in the catalog, such as individual first aid packs.

Medical Department Supply Catalog June 1st, 1943 – A list of items available for the medical department, including costs and supply class. Also includes a section on organizational equipment, medical department assemblages and component parts, and the cost of medical department blank forms.

Identifying and Dating Medical Equipment in use by the US Army in WW2 – By Poppy Mercier Somme Poppies Repros Updated August 2025. Explains how to date medical equipment.

Quartermaster Corps

Quartermaster Corps Manual QMC 14-2: Use and Care of Office Equipment and Supplies – Dated Feb 1945. Written in response to the drastic reduction of office supplies, and describes how to use and care for office supplies to make them last longer. Contains nuggets of information like “use both sides of the paper” and “to re-use file folders, flip them inside out”. Also mentions reusing rubber bands as rubber was a wartime ration good. It also has a good section on how to care for typewriters, which, if you don’t know where to begin, is a good place to start! Print on ivory regular paper, 8.5″ x 11″

Quartermaster Supply Catalog QM 3-1 1946: List of Items for Troop Issue Enlisted Men’s Clothing and Equipment. This catalog was made in May 1946. Lists out all the things available to troops at the end of WW2. Supercedes QM1.

For the June 1943 version, see QM 3-1.

Officers’ Equipment Catalog 1938 No 33 – Lists items available for officers. Somewhat dated for WW2, but stuff would have been around.

QM 3-2 WACs and Nurses Clothing and Equipment: Circular No 4 Revised Oct 1943 and including Change 1 of April 1944 – First published in Oct 1943 and then updated in April 1944. A list of clothing and equipment items for Nurses and WACs.

For the June 1946 version, see: Armed Service Forces Catalog, Quartermaster Supply Catalog QM 3-2. List of Items for Troop Issue, WACS’ and Nurses’ Clothing and Equipment. Headquarters, Army Service Forces.

Quartermaster Supply for Posts, Camps, and Stations QM3-3. Lists items that would be available for issue to static places like camps and posts, etc. Published on June 15th, 1944.

Quartermaster Supply Catalog for Enlisted Men QM 1. Lists items for issue to enlisted men at the start of WW2. Published in 1943.

Quartermaster Supply Catalog, QM7-MISC 9, Organizational Spare Parts for Heater, Immersion Type, For Cans, Corrugated, QM Stock No. 65-J-1911-50 –

Quartermaster Supply Catalog, QM7-MISC 2A, Organizational Spare Parts for Stove, Cooking, Gasoline, M1941, One Burner, QM Stock No. 65-H-2880 –

Quartermaster Supply Catalog, QM7-MISC 3, Organizational Spare Parts for Stove, Cooking, Gasoline, M1942, One Burner, QM Stock No. 65-H-2881 –

Quartermaster Supply Catalog, QM8-MISC 11, Outfit, Burner, Pot Type, Oven, Bake, Field, M1942 –

Quartermaster Supply Catalog, QM8-MISC 8, Range, Field, M1937 –

US Army Tentative Specification, Equipment for Range, Field, M1937, Bake Pan with Cover and Stock Pot with Insert and Covers –

Quartermaster Supply Catalog, QM7-MISC 10, Organizational Spare Parts for Oven Bake, Field, M-1942, QM Stock No. 65-A-5500 –

Quartermaster Supply Catalog, QM7-MISC 11, Organizational Spare Parts for Outfit, Burner, Pot Type, Oven Bake, Field, M-1942, QM Stock No. 65-A-5040 –

QMC Tentative Specification, Sun Dried and Blanched Dehydrated Prunes, Peached, Apricots, Raisins –

Quartermaster Supply in the European Theater of Operations Vol. III. Published at the Quartermaster School at Camp Lee, VA in 1948. It includes the following chapters:

Chapter 1 – Invasion Plans (p. 1)
Chapter 2 – Methods of Supply (p. 9)
Chapter 3 – Procurement (p. 22)
Chapter 4 – Storage and Distribution (p. 40)
Chapter 5 – The ETO Field Jacket (p. 58)
Chapter 6 – Protective Clothing (p. 66)
Chapter 7 – Winter Clothing (p. 75)
Chapter 8 – Outfitting the Woman Soldier (p. 90)
Appendix I – Proposal for T/E 21 Clothing and Equipment Accompanying Troops Overseas (p. 98)
Appendix II – Equipment of Troops, December 1943 (p. 100)
Appendix III – Equipment of Troops, 25 February 1944 (p. 102)
Appendix IV-A – Class II Beach Maintenance Sets (p. 104)
Appendix IV-B – Follow-Up Maintenance Sets (p. 107)
Appendix IV-C – Items to Be Stocked for Maintenance Sets (p. 110)
Appendix V – Class II Reserve Stocks for Marshaling Areas, 30 March 1944 (p. 114)
Appendix VI – Allowances of Clothing and Equipment for Troops Engaged in the Continental Operation, 30 April 1944 (p. 115)
Appendix VII – Items to Be Bulk Shipped, 11 May 1943 (p. 120)
Appendix VIII – Hospital Stocks, April 1944 (p. 119)
Appendix IX – Flow of Clothing and Individual Equipment, 2 February 1945 (p. 121)
Appendix X-A – Controlled Items, 10 October 1944 (p. 122)
Appendix X-B – Items Controlled by OCQM, April 1945 (p. 123)
Appendix XI – Replenishment Requisition and Shipment Flow, 19 March 1945 (p. 124)
Appendix XII – Report of Individual Equipment Procured from British Sources, 1943–1944 (p. 125)
Appendix XIII – Draft of French Government’s Procedure Establishing General Terms for the Manufacture of Military Clothing, 19 November 1944 (p. 126)
Appendix XIV – Raw Materials Import Plan, 18 December 1944 (p. 128)
Appendix XV – Comparison of Commodities Required and Procured from Continental Production, February–September 1945 (p. 130)
Appendix XVI – Depot Mission in United Kingdom (p. 131)
Appendix XVII – Comparison of Clothing and Individual Equipment Requirements and Assets for First Period of a Continental Operation (p. 132)
Appendix XVIII – Individual Clothing and Equipment Requirements, Brittany Base Section, 8 September 1944 (p. 133)
Appendix XIX – Normal Flow of Class II Supplies (p. 135)
Appendix XX-A – Normal Flow of Class II Supplies for United States Forces (p. 136)
Appendix XX-B – Normal Flow of Class II Supplies for POW (p. 138)
Appendix XXI – Summary of Class II Depot Missions (p. 137)
Appendix XXII – Model Stock Clothing, 1 August 1943 (p. 140)
Appendix XXIII – Model Stock Clothing, 20 January 1945 (p. 142)
Appendix XXIV – Supplemental Size Tariffs for Shoes, Service Type III, 7 November 1944 (p. 154)
Appendix XXV – Shoepac Size Tariffs, 1 November 1945 (p. 155)
Appendix XXVI – Status of Protective Clothing, 9 February 1944 (p. 156)
Appendix XXVII – Status of Items of Clothing and Individual Equipment in Short Supply in the United Kingdom, 15 July 1944 (p. 157)
Appendix XXVIII – Items of Winter Clothing Recommended by the Office of the Quartermaster General, November 1943 (p. 158)
Appendix XXIX – Clothing and Equipment Recommended for Climatic Conditions Similar to Winter in Northern France and Germany (p. 159)
Appendix XXX – Winter Clothing for Special Conditions, 15 August 1944 (p. 160)
Appendix XXXI – Winter Clothing for Special Conditions, 9 September 1944 (p. 161)
Appendix XXXII – Movement of Winter Clothing to Armies, 20 September 1944 (p. 162)
Appendix XXXIII – The Winterizing Program, October 1944 (p. 163)
Appendix XXXIV – Additional Winter Clothing Requirements, 2 October 1944 (p. 164)
Appendix XXXV – Winter Clothing in ETO Waters, 20 November 1944 – 1 January 1945 (p. 165)
Appendix XXXVI – Special Cold Weather Clothing, 3 January 1945 (p. 166)
Appendix XXXVII – Total Issues as of 17 February 1945 (p. 167)
Appendix XXXVIII – Winter Clothing for European Theater of Operations, 9 March 1945 (p. 168)
Appendix XXXIX – Requirements for Local Procurement of Clothing and Individual Equipment for Enlisted Women (p. 169)
Appendix XL – 1945 Raw Materials Import Plan: Knit Goods for Enlisted Women (p. 170)
Appendix XLI – Clothing Allowances for WAC Enlisted Women