The US Army made it mandatory for all ... But due to the nature of the conflict, a wide variety of uniforms were fielded by soldiers. Spanish-American War (1898) The Spanish-American War featured ...

and the so-called Banana War field uniform, worn when Marines were called in to protect U.S. interests in Central and South America after the Spanish-American War. The collection ends with a ...

The Spanish-American ... Marine Corps began a rapid buildup during which it was besieged by amateurs and recalled Civil War veterans to regain knowledge on large-scale conventional operations. The ...

we team up with Brandon from Adventure Archaeology to uncover relics at a Spanish-American War military camp. With Brandon swinging the Garrett AT MAX and us using the Minelab Manticore ...

USA TODAY Network lists a brief history of U.S. military camouflage: 1898: During the Spanish-American War ... with camouflage uniforms in 1940. In 1943, U.S. Marines in the Solomon Islands ...

Following the Spanish-American War the U.S. Army reconsidered the uniform that its soldiers would wear in the field. A number of changes were made, and in December 1911 the War Department ...

The month of June marks two milestones: the 250th Army birthday and the 165th anniversary of the founding of the Signal Corps ...

Nearly 125 years after it ended, the Spanish-American War isn’t really commemorated in depth in the annals of U.S. military history ... thousands who served in uniform during the war, the ...

But the Spanish-American War doesn ... a Marine from Hagerstown, Bockmiller said. The Maine exploded in the Havana Harbor. The vessel has been in the Cuban port because the U.S. government ...