I'm not familiar with that padded harness. Might be postwar based on the color as well.
Firing pins and firing studs will probably be in stock for awhile since not all that many people need them. For live firing, I use the firing pin style since I hand load cartridges. But wartime most of the launching cartridges had their own built in firing mechanism so the mortars tended to have firing studs. This helped to ensure a firing pin wouldn't fail when needed in action. But both are technically correct for WWII.
On the books, we did a revised and expanded printing of each title. Equipment in 2010 and then Weapons in 2011 and Uniforms in 2012. Each has roughly another hundred pages except for the weapons book which went to 784 pages now.
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