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Offline Dichotomy

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240 Years Of Army Uniforms
« on: July 18, 2015, 12:40:01 PM »
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Re: 240 Years Of Army Uniforms
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2015, 08:16:47 AM »
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Re: 240 Years Of Army Uniforms
« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2015, 09:00:58 AM »
When i was at fort verde i was suprised that US uniforms look British :old:
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Re: 240 Years Of Army Uniforms
« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2015, 09:02:01 AM »
Loved my BDU's.
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Re: 240 Years Of Army Uniforms
« Reply #4 on: July 19, 2015, 03:44:13 PM »
One of those was never a US Army uniform. In fact it was the uniform of an enemy of the USA.
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Re: 240 Years Of Army Uniforms
« Reply #5 on: July 19, 2015, 09:04:21 PM »
If you are thinking of Confederate gray, then you are mistaken. Not only did some Northern units wear gray, but some Southern units wore blue. And on both sides there was a lot of everything else, also.
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Re: 240 Years Of Army Uniforms
« Reply #6 on: July 20, 2015, 03:18:59 AM »
Interesting. One of my favorite eras for military history would be the Enlightenment era. I was a bit disappointed on how they displayed the Continental regular.
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Re: 240 Years Of Army Uniforms
« Reply #7 on: July 20, 2015, 12:43:21 PM »
Very excellent, yet I wonder if a few were left out as some conflicts werent listed. The war against the Spanish being one. It would have been nice to see a few other units being honored too, like armored...ect

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Re: 240 Years Of Army Uniforms
« Reply #8 on: July 20, 2015, 05:32:15 PM »
When i was at fort verde i was suprised that US uniforms look British :old:

Up until after WWII all of our uniforms looked an awful lot like someone elses. Our uniforms until the 1820s tended to look like the Brits with colors changed, from the 1820s to the 1850s they looked like Prussians (even in the same blue), from the 1850s to the 1870s they looked French, from the 1870s to the late 1890s tthey looked Prussian again (complete with the Pickelhaube), and from around 1900 until just before WWII they look like Brit uniforms again, complete with the Sam Browne belt. It's not until after WWII that other nations started copying US uniforms and equipment, and not the other way around.
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Re: 240 Years Of Army Uniforms
« Reply #9 on: July 20, 2015, 07:17:52 PM »
Wow great find Dicho  :aok
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Re: 240 Years Of Army Uniforms
« Reply #10 on: July 20, 2015, 11:09:24 PM »
If you are thinking of Confederate gray, then you are mistaken. Not only did some Northern units wear gray, but some Southern units wore blue. And on both sides there was a lot of everything else, also.
That's true but that's not the same thing as saying the CS army uniform was the US Army uniform, which is not correct.
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Re: 240 Years Of Army Uniforms
« Reply #11 on: July 22, 2015, 10:29:09 AM »
Wow great find Dicho  :aok

Can't take credit for it.  Julie sent it to me but thank you sir.
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