Army and Navy Uniforms and Insignia / How to Know Rank, Corps and Service in the Military and Naval Forces of the United States and Foreign Countries

Army and Navy
Uniforms and Insignia

How to know Rank, Corps and Service
in the Military and Naval Forces of the
United States and Foreign Countries

By
Colonel Dion Williams
United States Marine Corps

With Eight Illustrations in Color and One Hundred
and Thirty-Eight in Black and White

Revised and Enlarged Edition

New York

Frederick A. Stokes Company

Publishers

Copyright, 1918, by

Frederick A. Stokes Company


All rights reserved


CONTENTS

CHAPTER   PAGE
I. Origin and History of Uniform  1
II. Service, Corps and Rank 17
III. Ensigns, Flags and Pennants 53
IV. Uniforms and Insignia of the United States Army 64
V. Uniforms and Insignia of the United States Navy 108
VI. Uniforms and Insignia of the U. S. Marine Corps 147
VII. Uniforms and Insignia of the U. S. Coast Guard 170
VIII. Uniforms and Insignia of the U. S. Lighthouse Service  
  and U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey 182
IX. Uniforms and Insignia of the U. S. Public Health Service   188
X. Medals, Badges and Ribbons 201
XI. Uniforms and Insignia of Foreign Armies and Navies 216
XII. Uniforms and Insignia of the American Red Cross 292
XIII. Uniforms and Insignia of the War Workers of the  
  Young Men’s Christian Association 303
XIV. Customs of the Services 306
XV. Honors and Distinctions 314
  Index 325

ARMY AND NAVY UNIFORMS
AND INSIGNIA


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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