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 ...

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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 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 ...