Are you sure that wasn't a Pathfinder's kit? That looks like a marker panel in the top center (with the stakes).
Guesses as to total weight?
Incredible, though... simply incredible.
Incredible, though... simply incredible.
From what I've read, just enough to snap the line on a paratrooper's leg bag--in most of the accounts I've read/heard, they didn't end up carrying it, because they lost the whole bag when the chute opened...
The thought of jumping out of a plane today scares the beejesus out of me... I can't imagine doing it with gear from 70 years ago. 
How many rounds of .45 is that? I did not see much ammo for the garand.
I count five pouches with ten mags each, plus two more mags in another pouch, plus the one in the pistol. That's 53 magazines, so 318 rounds of .45ACP (or 319, if he goes cocked and locked). I don't see anywhere near that amount of .30-'06.
Loadouts have gotten progressively heavier over the years. I remember going on a march during an exercise through the coastal hills in SE Spain back in the mid 80's. We'd been on ship for about a month, so our PT regimen wasn't quite up to snuff. I was carrying an M16, PRC-77 radio and a 3 day ruck. My A-Gunner had his ruck, M16 and a Stinger missile (35#). He was in worse shape than me unfortunately. At various points, I'd either have both M16's & the radio, or the radio and missile. We did 21 clicks in 16 hours, a lot of which was at a pretty steep incline or decline. This wasn't a road march either. At one point I got stung on the thigh by some wicked-assed creature and had a welt the size of a tennis ball. I did a lot of stuff in my 4.5 years, but that march was the hardest by far.
Actually there are three .45 mags (one in the gun and two in the flat pouch on the left). The other five pouches with 5 pockets each are loaded with en-bloc clips. So that's 200 rounds for the Garand and 21 for the 1911.
Those seem a bit large to be batteries; here's a pic of the radio with the two different batteries used:
Oh yeah, the batteries are still huge. And an aside. Radio operators are supposed to get pistols so they can destroy their equipment if they're going to be captured.
