USMC UNIFORMS AND EQUIPMENT 1941-1945

Bruno Alberti and Laurent Pradier have been collecting and writing about US Marine Corps gear for more than a decade and, in that time, have contributed a complete series of articles on the topic in the French 'Armes Militaria Magazine'. That sequence of articles is complete and the time has now come for a revised and expanded version of the results of their work as a single bound volume. The US Marine Corps has always enjoyed a special status among the American Armed Forces, as well as boasting distinctive uniforms and emblems.Hundreds of items of clothing, equipment and insignia are illustrated by reenactment photographs of the famous leathernecks in the form of large format colour plates. Many period photographs found in official American archives are also reproduced and help place the reenactment shots in the correct historical context. This new volume maintains the usual exceptional quality standards of Histoire and Collections: carefully-researched historical background, hundreds of concisely captioned colour photographs of authentic artifacts and reenactment photographs taken in studio conditions to allow the reader to see the uniforms and equipment in the greatest clarity.