Military Collector and Historian Spring 2018 Vol 70 No. 1

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Military Collector & Historian

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Compagnies franches de la Marine, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Canadian Styleâ&#x20AC;? dress, mid-eighteenth century

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My First Flight in an F–4 Phantom, by Lt. Col. John Norvell, USAF (Ret

Clothing the Confederate Soldiers of South Carolina, 1861–1865, by Ron Field

Capt. John S. Wilson of Danville, Pennsylvania, 1840 to 1847, by Randy W. Hackenburg

Capt. George T. Balch, U.S. Army Ordnance Department, and his 1861–1862 Letter Book, by Charles Pate

Women’s Motor Corps of America Coat, 1917–1920, by Marc W. Sammis

Francis Back, by René Chartrand

A Dragoon on Trial: The Quality of Military Justice and the Court-martial of Pvt. Percival Lowe, by Will Gorenfeld

The Message Center: From the President

966: “MarPat” (Marine Pattern) USMC Camouflaged Utility Uniform, 2002, by John M. Carrillo and Kenneth Smith-Christmas

Testing Underwater Ordnance in the Patuxent During World War II, by Merle T. Cole

MILITARY UNIFORMS IN AMERICA 965: Compagnies franches de la Marine, “Canadian Style” dress, mid-eighteenth century, by Francis Back and René Chartrand

by Peter Rindlisbacher and René Chartrand

Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery: How the U.S. Took a German Ordnance Item for its Own, by Thomas A. Crawford

The Shoulder Sleeve Insignia of the Fourth Brigade of Marines, 1918–19

The Sailmakers Detachment: Italian American Tailors in the Air Service in World War I, by Maj. Peter L. Belmonte, USAF (Ret

A 1912 Real Picture Postcard of a Sailor from USS Franklin by Anthony F. Gero

by Kenneth L. Smith-Christmas and Owen Linlithgow Conner

On Our Covers

World War I Real Photograph Postcard of U.S. Army Officers, by Alan Bogan

Shoulder Sleeve Insignia of the District of Paris, A.E.F., by Dan Joyce

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