Photographs, newspapers, memoirs, war office documents and tailoring ephemera reveal the impact of the war on the tailoring trade. But the story of uniform also involves the wartime knitting projects, the issue of 'Kitchener Blue', Sikhs wearing khaki on the western front, and the punishments ...
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To learn about uniforms worn by flight nurses in World War II, please seeMedical Air Evacuation in World War II–The Flight Nurse. US Army Quartermaster supply catalog QM 3-2, 7 October 1943, showing the olive drab and blue dress uniforms, the seersucker uniform, the white ward dress, and...
To date no explanation has been found that would explain why this badge was struck in silver since only gold badges are known to have been officially authorized by the War Department for wear on a uniform; however, in 1918 V. H. Blackinton did list the badge in their catalog as being ...
World War I was the first war in which American women were recruited to serve in the military. Women were already present in France as members of the American Red Cross and as canteen workers. Girl Patriots At Great Lakes Homes Wanted For American Women in France ...
Ankelman was inducted into the Army on July 17, 1917, and assigned to Company H of the 307th Infantry. He was shipped out to France on April 7, 1918. During World War I, the 307th Infantry was assigned to the 154th Infantry Brigade and became part of the 77th Infantry Division and...
War is a great opportunity for profit; a product has to be created only to be destroyed and created again, while confusion leads to creative accounting.
The World War II Victory Medal was authorised for all members of the Army who had served between 7 December 1941 and VJ-Day, 2 September 1945. COMBAT UNIFORMS 'HBTs and Frogskins' The previous fatigue uniform of the Army was blue denim pants, shirt and Daisy Mae' - a floppy-brimmed...
World War 1 inflicted hitherto unseen violence on Europe and entangled the entire planet in the conflict—the first time a war was so far reaching. It broke empires, launched new nations onto the international stage, and caused humanity to question its innate goodness....
The USA already had Army (1901) and Navy (1908) Nurse Corps and Wilson puts at 13,000 the number of women who "enlisted in the Navy and the Marine Corps on the same status as men and wore a uniform blouse with insignia" during WWI. "With the war's end", she adds, "the Coast ...