page_title: Uniforms of the German Army (1935–1945)
section_title: M40 Tunic
hierarchical_section_title: Uniforms of the German Army (1935–1945) / Field and service uniform / Field Tunic (Feldbluse) / M40 Tunic
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Deutsche Soldaten vor dem Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel im von den Deutschen besetzten Paris, 1940. English: Soldiers of German Wehrmacht in front of the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel in the occupied Paris, 1940. Français&#160;: Soldats allemands posant devant l'arc de triomphe du Carrousel, dans Paris occupée par leur armée, été 1940.
context_page_description: The following is a general overview of the Heer main uniforms, used by the German army prior and during World War II.
  Terms such as M40 and M43 were never designated by the Wehrmacht, but are names given to the different versions of the Model 1936 field tunic by modern collectors, to discern between variations, as the M36 was steadily simplified and tweaked due to production time problems and combat experience.
context_section_description: The M40 uniform was the first design change in the standard army uniform. It differed from the M36 only in the substitution of feldgrau for the bottle green collar and shoulder straps, which began to be phased out in 1938/39, though most combat examples show this variation appearing in 1940, hence the unofficial M40 pattern. The troops liked the older green collars, and M40 (and later) tunics modified with salvaged M36 collars or bottle-green collar overlays are not uncommon.
caption: Germans in Paris, 1940
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