{"id":30026,"date":"2026-07-30T07:15:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/30\/announcing-tiger-stripe-the-vietnam-camouflage-story-from-headstamp-publishing\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T07:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:15:20","slug":"announcing-tiger-stripe-the-vietnam-camouflage-story-from-headstamp-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/30\/announcing-tiger-stripe-the-vietnam-camouflage-story-from-headstamp-publishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing &#8220;Tiger Stripe: The Vietnam Camouflage Story&#8221; from Headstamp Publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EZEEw8K9ixY?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Reserve your copy of &#8220;Tiger Stripe: The Vietnam Camouflage Story&#8221; on Kickstarter today:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/headstamp\/tiger-stripe?ref=45nn7u<br\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/headstamp\/tiger-stripe?ref=45nn7u<br<\/a> \/><br \/>With historical roots based in the \u201cLizard\u201d camouflage patterns worn by French colonial troops in Indochina in the years following the Second World War, \u201cTiger Stripe\u201d has become an icon of the Vietnam War. Most commonly associated today with US Special Forces advisors, Tiger Stripe camouflage saw surprisingly wide usage across an array of forces in South Vietnam \u2013 with South Vietnamese Special Forces (LLDB), South Vietnamese Marines (VNMC), South Vietnamese Rangers, Civilian Irregular Defense Groups (CIDG), Mike Force, MACV-SOG, and more. The reputation of Tiger Stripe is such that even the most disinterested person today instinctively associates the camouflage with Special Forces. Tiger Stripe: The Vietnam Camouflage Story is the most visually comprehensive book to ever dive specifically into this topic, covering its development and usage leading up to and during the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n<p>Authored by film producer and long-time camouflage collector and dealer, Owen Thornton, Tiger Stripe: The Vietnam Camouflage Story will transport you back to the early days of the conflict in Southeast Asia to tell a story through an almost unimaginably diverse gathering of authentic vintage uniforms, original never-before-seen photographs, government documents, and historically significant (but largely forgotten) magazine articles. All told, this book contains in excess of 1,250 images.<\/p>\n<p>Tiger Stripe covers the following topics as it works its way through the history of this camouflage pattern:<br \/>\u00b7      Windproof Pattern<br \/>\u00b7      Lizard Pattern<br \/>\u00b7      Sea Wave Tiger<br \/>\u00b7      Bulletproof Pattern<br \/>\u00b7      Fat Tiger<br \/>\u00b7      Silver Tiger<br \/>\u00b7      Okinawa Tiger<br \/>\u00b7      ARVN Tiger<br \/>\u00b7      Gold Tiger<br \/>\u00b7      1969 Pattern Tiger<br \/>\u00b7      Other Miscellaneous Patterns and Variants<br \/>\u00b7      Hollywood Usage<br \/>\u00b7      Women and Kids Clothing<br \/>\u00b7      Reproduction Clothing<br \/>\u00b7      Modern Tiger Usage<\/p>\n<p>Photographed by celebrated photographer James Rupley, Tiger Stripe: The Vietnam Camouflage Story presents this highly curated collection of camouflage and relevant accessories in never-before-seen detail on large format, full-color prints in a premium hardback form. Tiger Stripe is the next best thing to having these exceptional collector\u2019s grade items in your own personal collection.<\/p>\n<p>The best firearms reference books: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reserve your copy of &#8220;Tiger Stripe: The Vietnam Camouflage Story&#8221; on Kickstarter today:https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/headstamp\/tiger-stripe?ref=45nn7uWith historical roots based in the \u201cLizard\u201d camouflage patterns worn by French colonial troops in Indochina in the years following the Second World War, \u201cTiger Stripe\u201d has become an icon of the Vietnam War. Most commonly associated today with US Special Forces advisors,&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/30\/announcing-tiger-stripe-the-vietnam-camouflage-story-from-headstamp-publishing\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Announcing &#8220;Tiger Stripe: The Vietnam Camouflage Story&#8221; from Headstamp Publishing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":30027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}