I made my first trip to Belfast in 1978 and saw mere boys walking around in battle dress with automatic weapons,” Elvis Costello recalled in his liner notes to the 2002 Rhino Records re‑release of his 1979 album Armed Forces. "They were no longer just on the evening news. These snap...
A shako, or military head-dress Caterpillar A soldier Clash Pans Cymbols Cool Lady Woman who sells alcohol Cracker Ammunition Crapaud A French soldier Croaker A moaner Crocus A surgeon Dead Man An empty bottle Faggot Man hired to appear for soldier at roster call ...
McAfee wrote us on 1/4/2012: “Have you heard the Army's reason why dress blue trousers are lighter than the coats? The Army version is that out in the West the soldiers did not wear their coats as it was too hot, so as a result the pants faded to a lighter shade. Again, ...
“Changed dress, he found, opened the way into ‘officer country,’ where liquor flowed and life was easier,” McGurn recalled. A 1945 Aarons photo depicts a group of children, known as "The Treasures of Italy," who were abandoned or orphaned during World War II. (Slim Aarons...