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Woman Marine 1918


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BILL THE PATCH

The color is fantastic, great image I suppose not many female marine photos around, especially in color

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Interesting she is wearing a glengerry hat. I'm guessing from the later folded collars which if I'm correct didn't happen till the 1920"s?

I'm not sure if there was a womens uniform with that type collar construction before then?

Still very cool.

Thanks for posting.

Ken

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Great photo! I know nothing about women’s uniform regs, but the men’s tunic changed to this style collar in 1926 IIRC. I wonder if the women hung onto the glengarry style cap longer than the men? I don’t think the male Marine wore those past about 1920. 

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CombatEng44

I’m confused with the flag. Should be 48 not 50? Is this photo supposed to be original vintage. Maybe I’m looking at it wrong.

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Since that photo belongs to a friend of mine, ...yes, it's original. 

 

It would be proper to credit the source for the screenshot.  It's a great image!

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phantomfixer

It is a great image but I am going with Combat44...maybe a cut and paste when it was colorized?...I am counting 9 rows of stars

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 I'm not going to get into posting photos on the internet with no watermarks, (freeforall?) But I will give credit to Joshua Drega, original poster on facebooks US Field Gear Junkies.

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The flag may have been a "staggered 48" which these days are fairly uncommon in those larger sizes. But some of the stars/folds do seem to have a photoshop "rubber stamp" tool quality to them.

 

But what a great image on so many levels!

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