23128 - "Welcome!" French Village Man Greeting U.S. Infantry Doughboy, 1918 John Jenkins U.S. Marines make a powerful team

make a powerful team

Although some examples of this camo pattern combat uniform were manufactured in South Vietnam most Special Forces uniforms were purchased in Thailand

Soldiers on both sides marched between dusk and dawn – rarely at night because of risk of accident and injury

Both North and South initially hesitated in forming mounted units because of financial considerations

there to work in one of the hospitals

23128 - "Welcome!" French Village Man Greeting U.S. Infantry Doughboy, 1918 John Jenkins U.S. Marines make a powerful teamThe Great War marked the first time in history the United States sent soldiers abroad to defend foreign soil. The French ecstatically welcomed the first wave of soldiers. Vive lAmerique! came the shouts at the edge of a Boulogne pier as Pershing steamed into port. In an emotional arrival ceremony at the Marquis de Lafayettes tomb, Col. Charles E. Stanton declared to the crowd, Lafayette, we are here! suggesting Americans had come to repay an old debt