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Unlike British police, American law enforcement agencies do not usually include white-colored apparel, such as shirts, in their uniforms due to the fact white reflects in the dark and can make police officers more prominent targets for armed criminals during building searches or standoffs. [12]
During the Korean War, Military Police kept supply routes open. Subsequently, Military Police monitored the exchange of prisoners and patrolled the demilitarized zone. Military Police, adapting to a different style of warfare in Vietnam, earned status as a combat support arm, partially as a result of combat success during the Tet Offensive. [12]
One Gallant Rush: Robert Gould Shaw and His Brave Black Regiment (1965) is a book by Peter Burchard, based on letters written by Robert Gould Shaw, white colonel of the first black regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War, the 54th Massachusetts Regiment. They were the first of what became the United States Colored Troops ...
North American F-100 Supersabre by David A. Anderton; Once a Fighter Pilot by Brig Gen Jerry W. Cook; One Day Too Long-Top Secret Site 85 and the Bombing of North Vietnam by Timothy N. Castle; One Day in a Long War. May 10, 1972, Air War, North Vietnam by Jeffrey Ethell; Over The Beach-The Air War In Vietnam by Zalin Grant
Nordic military history: North American military history: Ottoman military history: Polish military history: Roman and Byzantine military history: Russian, Soviet and CIS military history: South American military history: South Asian military history: Southeast Asian military history: Spanish military history: United States military history
Uniforms for the War of 1812 were made in Philadelphia.. The design of early army uniforms was influenced by both British and French traditions. One of the first Army-wide regulations, adopted in 1789, prescribed blue coats with colored facings to identify a unit's region of origin: New England units wore white facings, southern units wore blue facings, and units from Mid-Atlantic states wore ...
Military badges of the United States; Awards and decorations of the United States Armed Forces; I. Spiewak & Sons, manufacturers of apparel for U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Air Force during World War I, World War II, and Korean War; Military uniform § United States; State defense force#Uniforms; Physical training uniform; Military beret ...
Ways of War: American Military History from the Colonial Era to the Twenty-First Century (Routledge, 2013), 536 pp; university textbook; online review; Stewart, Richard W. American military history (2 vol 2010) Sweeney, Jerry K.; Kevin B. Byrne (2006). A handbook of American military history. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-9337-3.