Saturday, June 18, 2022

Poster Saturday. Early Cold War Recruiting Poster


 I'm not sure of the vintage of this, but I'd place it safety in the 1950s, or very early 1960s.  The uniform is the World War Two paratrooper inspired uniform that came into service in the late 1940s and which stuck around until the early 1960s.  It was frankly a better uniform than the standard Army "fatigue" uniform of the 60s and 70s.

And the soldier is carrying the M1 Garand, which remained in service in general issue for the U.S. Army after the Second World War until after 1958, when the M14 started to go into production.  The Army frankly never felt a real hurry to replace the M1, although sufficient numbers were made such that when the Army and Marine Corps first deployed to Vietnam in numbers, in 1965, the Garand was then found only in the Navy and the Reserves.

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