What German soldier uniforms looked like in late 1944

It is between late summer and early autumn of 1944 that entire COMBAT! series takes place and it's a shame the show kept to such a narrow time period backdrop when it could have progressed into winter 1944 and then the Battle for Germany in spring 1945.

Okay, to my point. For those of you fans interested in military history and memoribilia, you'll find this interesting. COMBAT! was a great war tv show, but it wasn't perfect and I don't know if the director intended perfection.

Take the uniforms of the Germans portrayed in COMBAT! You could only notice this if you are a military afionado of history, weapons, and uniforms. The German soldiers were too neatly uniformed and too homogenous. Their sameness of uniforms and jackboots would all be accurate for the time period....1939 through 1942, which coincides with the beginning of WWII and 1942 the high mark of the Third Reich before military defeats and disasters started to occur with regularity.

By the summer and autumn of 1944, the German soldiers' unforms exhibited great variety in appearance for many reasons, one of the biggest being expediency, others including wartime experience and the declining logicistal abilities of the Third Reich, the Wehrmacht, and the Heer. After 1941, the tall jackboots so typically associated with German soldiers were not issued. German soldiers started wearing ankle boots, similar in concept and style to those worn by the American Army, American Marines, and the British Army. In fact, the traditional farmer's and workman's thick leather, high-top ankle work boot served as the template for the miliary boots of the major combatants. The German Army added a canvas anklet that surrounded the soldier's lower calves, giving the appearance of a short boot but was meant to blouse the soldier's pants or trouser legs. German soldiers of late 1944 frequently wore camouflage smocks and jackets as the German Army learned a lesson in woodland camouflage patterns over the past five years of constant combat. The German soldiers use K98 Mauser short rifles and submachine guns, all accurate but other weapons were issued but not depicted in the series, such as the Gewehr G41 semiautomatic rifle, Germany's answer to the American M1 Garand. The iconic German assault rifle, the MP44, the first of its kind in modern combat, is not depicted. More, historical records and photos prove that German soldiers were using captured American M1 carbines and British sten submachineguns. Even with hand grenades, COMBAT! gives the impression that the Germans used only its classic potato masher hand grenade. The Germans were particulary fond of it ve