Graflex Combat Kit, info needed

[jp]

Thanks for that site Bruce. It has been very useful!

[Fotoguy20d]

Bruce,

Thanks for your site - very informative, and quite a collection. I was there last night. Have you ever seen a Graflex 45/4x5 Combat with a graflex back instead of a spring back? Are there any sources out there for more info on these?

Thanks,
Dan

[tom thomas]

Fotoguy, check out this URL at Bruce's site. It's the PH-47 Signal Corps model that says it was the first model with the black flash unit and also to have the Graflok back.

Tom

http://graflex.coffsbiz.com/DSC_2908_jpg.html

[Armyphotog]

That's the type unit I was issued in the Army. Used one for two years. I don't quite understand from your description exactly what you think is missing. Can you be more specific?

[bruiser]

Hi Dan...Yes! The Combat Graphic (4x5) is quite common with a Graflex back. Of all the branches of the Armed Forces only the Navy (and therefore the Marine Corps as well) seemed to use that back more than the Graphic (or spring back). Mainly because the 4x5 Series D and Series B cameras were also popular with the Navy and the same film holders could be used with all cameras.

[bruiser]

Tom Thomas...my long lost cousin (?) the term PH-47 refers to any of the many 4x5 Speed Graphic variants. The olive drab PH-47-J was the first with the black flash and Graflok back. The J version was also the very first olive drab Speed Graphic. There were no green Speed Graphics made before 1949 so anyone describing one as WWII is off the mark. Only the 1944-1945 wooden 4x5 Combat Graphic was made in OD green for the Marine Corp and US Navy for use in the Pacific.