Shelter-half

A shelter-half is a simple kind of partial tent designed to provide temporary shelter and concealment when combined with one or more sections.

Two sheets of canvas or a similar material (the halves) are fastened together with snaps, straps or buttons to form a larger surface.

The shelter-half is then erected using poles, ropes, pegs, and whatever tools are on hand, forming an inverted V structure.

The first camouflage uniforms were the Second World War German paratrooper smock, based on their M1931 Splittermuster shelter-halves.

[6] To add some confusion, the ordinary waterproofed cape with a similar name (plasch-nakidka, "cape-overcoat") was issued at the same time, but these were not intended to combine with each other.