My Norton AV blew up in the midst of answering a request for these items and I lost the original message. There is a GREAT reference book around called Spearheading D-Day by Jonathan Dawne and it goes into a great deal of detail on these vests. They were made by a large number of local suppliers in the UK with whatever cloth was available. As a result, you can find them in colors ranging from olive green to olive drab to khaki. While some troops hung on to them as dead useful, others ditched them as soon as they were off the boats. I think you can probably use any shade of green in that range and be relatively correct, for unless you have a photo to compare shades of light/dark to the rest of the uniform it is going to be impossible to match. Cookie Sewell AMPS